Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi saved Annette Guzman more than $3,400 by giving her homeowner exemptions on a condo she hasn't lived in since 2019. After questions by the Sun-Times, Kaegi ordered ...

Board of Review commissioner Samantha Steele is challenged by Liz Nicholson, while commissioner George Cardenas is opposed by parks activist Juanita Irizarry.

Outside Chicago, only a fourth of municipal property taxes collected this year for police and fire are going to services.

Kat Abughazaleh, who is running to replace Representative Jan Schakowsky in Illinois’s Ninth District, cast her ballot at a Chicago Park District field house on Tuesday morning. She is part of a ...

Source: Election results are from The Associated Press. By The New York Times election results team: Michael Andre, Neil Berg ...

The platform allows the clerk, which oversees elections, to track turnout, mail-in ballot activity, and aggregated data ...

Cook County officials are warning residents to be weary of a circulating text message scam that falsely claims to require payment for unpaid charges.

In 1789, Ben Franklin wrote that nothing was certain “except death and taxes.” Let’s focus on the taxes part of the great ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi on Tuesday night conceded defeat to Pat Hynes, a one-time employee of the incumbent’s office, in the Democratic primary.

Chicago’s real estate industry is celebrating key wins in the Illinois primaries this week, including challenger Patrick Hynes’ ousting of Cook County Tax Assessor Fritz Kaegi.  Industry pros watched ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi conceded to challenger Pat Hynes in the race for the Democratic nomination, while Cook ...

Pat Hynes won the Democratic primary for Cook County assessor on Tuesday, defeating incumbent Fritz Kaegi. Election results from The Associated Press showed Hynes with 52.5% of the vote, compared with ...