A new report from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas shows property taxes collected by county taxing bodies over the past 30 years grew at twice the rate of inflation. In 1995, Cook County local ...

A new report on property taxes in Cook County shows that they have skyrocketed over the past 30 years. And anyone who has seen their latest tax bill can attest to the strain on the checkbook. In an ...

Dana Kozlov is an Emmy Award-winning political investigative reporter for CBS2 Chicago. Prior to joining the station in 2003, she worked at WGN, CNN Chicago and WEEK-TV in Peoria, where she began her ...

CHICAGO - Property taxes in Cook County have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, according to a new study from Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas' office. Over the past three decades, ...

Property taxes imposed by government bodies within Cook County’s borders have grown at twice the rate of inflation over the past three decades, outpacing wage growth and driving an affordability ...

It took little time after this year’s Cook County property tax bills became public for the political gamesmanship to begin. This year’s bills showed Chicago homeowners’ median property tax bills ...

The Cook County Assessor said the county's commercial businesses saw millions of dollars cut from their property tax bills this year, and the burden was shifted onto homeowners. According to the ...

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CHICAGO - From the city to the suburbs, property owners in Cook County have been frustrated with rising real estate taxes, especially as the next round of payments are due on Wednesday, April 1. The ...