After two shaky terms and voter anger about their property tax bills, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi is in the fight of his ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Assessor is planning to correct thousands of assessment errors in the south and west suburbs after i-Team reports about mistakes and high increases in property tax ...

As south suburban homeowners prepare to pay their historically high property tax bills ahead of the Aug. 1 deadline, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi faced hundreds of frustrated residents Monday ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Candidates running for office in Cook County started filing their paperwork Monday. The race for the assessor's office is expected to be heated after recent controversy over property ...

A new study calls for government agencies involved in the Cook County property tax system to better collaborate to help the system become more fair and equitable, as a growing chorus of homeowners ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This story is a collaboration between the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Tribune. Nearly half a billion dollars in taxable real estate value has ...

A former top official in the Cook County Assessor’s Office was sentenced to two years of probation on Tuesday after admitting to taking bribes and, later, helping the feds investigate corruption ...

Hundreds of Cook County landlords each year are taking advantage of a property tax incentive designed to preserve and create affordable housing. The participating landlords are spread throughout ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s latest valuation of Chicago’s urban core places more of the county’s tax burden on commercial property owners than homeowners. A summary of his latest assessment of ...

O'Connor discusses how 2025 was a year of chaos for Cook County and Illinois. CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, January 19, ...