Ongoing software upgrades and a massive backlog of 290,000 property tax appeals have stalled tens of thousands of Cook County ...

Commissioners are worried what to tell Cook County homeowners about bill timing or long-delayed refunds and local libraries ...

The next installments of Cook County property tax bills are due on Wednesday. Fox Chicago wanted to provide a fairly basic explainer of why paying property taxes is even a thing. Property taxes are an ...

While property taxes became a focus across the country in 2025, the biggest story by far was the disaster in Cook County. Starting with computer issues, things cascaded into multiple massive errors ...

While it may seem like a low bar, Cook County’s ability to get out its tax bills on time was an accomplishment few would have expected. Thanks to numerous computer problems, the county took months to ...