Three years after a group of homeowners and community organizations filed suit claiming the county’s tax sale system robbed them of their home equity, a federal judge has ruled the system ...

A federal judge ruled that Cook County’s system for handling unpaid property taxes violates the Constitution, delivering a major victory for homeowners who lost their properties and accumulated equity ...

Plans are underway to sunset Cook County’s contentious property tax sale system in the coming years. Last week, state Sen. Celina Villanueva, D-Chicago, filed a bill to bring Illinois into compliance ...

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If you are still staring at your eyewatering Cook County property tax bill — due Dec. 15, as in Monday — you might well be wondering what would happen if you failed to pay in a timely fashion. First, ...