First, check the exemptions you’re receiving by visiting cookcountytreasurer.com and clicking on the purple box labeled Your Property Tax Overview. Search using your address or 14-digit Property Index ...

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole ...

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

What's so important about compost? Food waste is a pressing environmental concern in Illinois. In Cook County — and in many counties around the state — it accounts for up to 37% of landfill material.

Cook County announced on Tuesday, Feb. 25, the launch of the Creative Placemaking grant program as part of the Cook County ...

A family-owned farm in the south suburbs of Chicago has announced that funding for a grant it received last October has been suspended.

A pedestrian hit by a Cook County Sheriff's officer's squad car in Glenview, Illinois, has died. The crash happened on ...

Police said, shortly after 5 a.m., a pedestrian was hit by a Cook County Sheriff's squad car in the 9800 block of Milwaukee ...

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.

COOK COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) – The Cook County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) has found a wanted fugitive. As of 6 p.m. on Wednesday, it was announced that 36-year-old Michael J. Beach has been ...

Two former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys on ... “It may surprise some people that under Illinois law, making false statements alone does not constitute perjury,” he said, adding ...

WELLINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Growing ties between Cook Islands and China, including a new comprehensive partnership agreement action plan detailed this week, have raised concerns in New Zealand ...