In the face of spiking property taxes across Chicago, Assessor Fritz Kaegi and South and West Side community leaders held a ...

Cook County is cracking down on illegal shoulder driving with an $11 million surveillance helicopter capable of spotting ...

CHICAGO - Cook County's longstanding system of collecting property tax debts by seizing and selling people's homes, worth ...

A federal judge ruled Cook County’s tax sale system unconstitutional for stripping homeowners of equity, leaving potential ...

The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make a guaranteed basic income pilot program ...

Federal judge rules the system violates the “takings” clause, but compensation for homeowners in class-action lawsuit remains ...

Cook County’s $10.12 billion budget for fiscal year 2026 includes $7.5 million for guaranteed income recipients. The county’s ...

Days after new Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach ordered an urgent review of the county's electronic monitoring program, ...

Two inmates died at Cook County Jail this weekend; families demand answers as state investigators review the cases.

An inmate at Cook County Jail died last week after a fire inside his cell, sheriff's officials said. Around 7:15 p.m. Thursday, correctional officers in the residential treatment unit of the jail ...

The family of a man who died in the Cook County Jail over the weekend gathered outside the criminal courthouse Monday morning ...

After a group of homeowners filed suit claiming Cook County’s tax sale process robbed them of home equity, a federal judge ...