The Cook County Assessor’s Office released a new public dataset containing building permits submitted to the office by ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi fixed 491 of at least 620 properties that were misclassified or undervalued during the 2023 ...

The Cook County Assessor’s Office will offer virtual events over the next month to help homeowners learn about property tax exemptions.

Good morning, Chicago. Nearly half a billion dollars in taxable real estate value has been added onto the Cook County rolls after the county assessor fixed hundreds of mistakes identified in an ...

The values are going down downtown. Residential is going to take on a greater share of the tax bill,” an expert says, which ...

The property tax assessment of Skyway’s 35,000-square-foot facility more than doubled last year, according to the Cook County Assessor’s Office. Brunetta Hill-Corley, Rico Corley and Jacquline Corley ...

Cook County’s conviction integrity unit repeatedly denied freedom to incarcerated people who were later cleared: “Despite its celebrated record of exonerating more people than any comparable ...

And on the other side of the political spectrum, primary voters in Will County’s Homer Township, a GOP stronghold, sent packing a slate of incumbents whose MAGA-style posturing and divisiveness ...

Aurora residents in Kane County also voted in three Aurora Township races featuring Democrats, which are partisan contests. Election stories can be found at aurorabeaconnews.com and will be ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago soul music giant and politician Jerry Butler has died at 85 years old. Butler first broke onto the charts in 1958 with The Impressions for the ballad "For Your Precious Love.