For Cook County residents hoping to lower their property tax bills, applications are open for exemptions.

Karin Schluecker Korth says her house is too big for her, but she doesn’t want to leave. It holds the memory of her late husband Bruce, who died in 2015; his spirit is in the house, she says. Her ...

Although she claims homeowner and senior exemptions, McCaskill does not reside in the home, which is a vagrant. The Cook County Assessor’s Office has referred the matter to its erroneous exemption ...

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CHICAGO -- ABC News, ABC-Owned Television Stations and the ABC7 Chicago I-Team are finding that too many Black and Latino homeowners are being "highballed." They are more likely to pay higher property ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As she campaigns for a fifth term as Cook County Board president, Toni Preckwinkle is saying the unit of government she directly ...

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Cook County is considering offering one-time payments of $1,000 to residents who have had the biggest hikes in their property tax bills. The county has budgeted $15 million for the program this year, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Village library leaders have added their voices to the chorus of complaints about delayed and sporadic distributions of Cook ...