Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi explains why so many Chicago homeowners' property tax bills went way up this year.

A simple first step to buy time for real reform is to cap Cook County property tax growth for parcels experiencing high increases in their bills.

Property taxes and how they are determined are not well understood and, to our minds, the media has not been helping much, ...

Featured on WGN Radio’s “Home Sweet Home Chicago” on Nov. 22, 2025: Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas joins the show to ...

Alex Nitkin from the Illinois Answers Project discussed Chicago homeowners facing the largest property tax jump in 30 years.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $16.6 billion budget proposal faces a major setback. And Dexter Reed’s family is asking a judge to reinstate a lawsuit against the city.

Nearly six decades after becoming a lawyer, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been disbarred following his convictions on federal corruption charges earlier this year.

Vasquez has an issue with borrowing money. Scott’s issue is with the head tax and TIFs. Other alders question transparency ...

Reiter, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, believes there are ways that can be established to raise property taxes ...

After Johnson’s budget proposal failed to make it through the City Council’s Finance Committee, the mayor and alders ...

The point of Black Voters Matter Fund’s local ad campaign is to help residents connect the dots between the ways billionaires ...