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A new study shows troubling data when it comes to voter participation and engagement, especially when it comes to propositions and policy questions that appear...

Cook County taxpayers could be in for sticker shock when they open the bills that will start arriving this week. 

After months of delay, nearly 1.8 million property tax bills for Cook County home and business owners are landing in mailboxes this week, and many homeowners in the north and northwest suburbs are in for jarring news. A new analysis from county Treasurer Maria Pappas’ research team found the median residential tax bill there increased by 15.7%, according to the report, “the largest percentage ...

A new report from the Cook County Treasurer's Office said property tax collection rates are historically low in low-income and mostly minority south suburbs.

A report by Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas shows the south suburbs are home to 14 of 15 towns with the lowest property tax collection rates.

Critics argue the system hurts taxpayers and local governments when they are forced to refund property taxes -- with interest.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas has released the findings of a landmark study that show that the practice of “redlining,” which was used to deny loans to...

CHICAGO — Vacant and abandoned properties clustered on the Chicago’s South and West sides and southern suburbs have been a stubborn problem for decades. Every two years, the Cook County treasurer trie...

Illinois' Scavenger Sale law, which was passed to make delinquent properties productive again, has done little to solve racial inequities, a recent study claims.

Many of the barriers erected by elected officials and civic leaders beginning in the 1930s to keep Black Chicagoans, Latino Chicagoans and White Chicagoans from living, working and playing in the same neighborhoods remain unchanged nearly a century later, according to a new study.