Within days, the metastasizing debate over who was responsible for the rising tax burden collided with deepening ideological rifts in Chicago and Cook County.

The Cook County Board of Review, the office tasked with settling appeals, announced that everyone who lives in a Cook County township that’s already closed its 2025 property tax appeal window will ...

Due to Cook County’s zero-sum property tax system, a controversial valuation process hammers neighborhoods with little ...

Cook County property tax bills were badly delayed this fall, but they're finally out and payment is due right before the holidays.

Residential property tax bills are rising fastest in Black neighborhoods on the South and West sides as the county's tax burden shifts away from the economically depressed Loop.

A simple first step to buy time for real reform is to cap Cook County property tax growth for parcels experiencing high ...

Featured on WGN Radio’s “Home Sweet Home Chicago” on Nov. 22, 2025: Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas joins the show to ...

Cook County’s property tax system is way behind schedule again, with second-installment tax bills just mailed Nov. 14 and due ...

If you are looking at the your Cook County property tax bill and were wondering why it is so high, you might want to look downtown.

The Cook County Board of Review typically gives taxpayers in townships a 30-day filing window for appeals. But "unprecedented ...

Pappas said the spike was fueled in part by declining commercial property values in the Loop. Many of those buildings still ...