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

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It took little time after this year’s Cook County property tax bills became public for the political gamesmanship to begin. This year’s bills showed Chicago homeowners’ median property tax bills ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Monday night's workshop was one of three being put on by the Cook County Assessor's Office this week in some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by property tax increases. But even with ...

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 ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — At the Cook County Building, a coalition of African American pastors rang the bell for what they said is an economic emergency. Rev. Ira Acree and clergy representing 20 ...