Toni Preckwinkle is tired of the bickering over how Cook County values commercial properties for tax purposes. She's hoping a new set of recommendations will fix the problem. The Cook County Board ...

It’s a common critique that commercial property owners want to undervalue their properties when it’s time to pay their taxes and overvalue them when it’s time to sell. A study from Cook County Tax ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has uncovered significant flaws in the property tax assessment system for commercial properties that found they’re consistently undervalued, through a ...

Two commercial fishing advocacy groups based on the Kenai Peninsula are again taking the federal government to court over its proposed management strategy for fishing in Cook Inlet’s federal waters.

Illinois taxpayers would help pay property tax bills for low-income Chicago-area residents to help soften the blow of tax bill spikes under a proposal in the works from Cook County Assessor Fritz ...