County officials said they would be mailing 1.8 million first installment property tax bills for the 2025 tax year by March 2.

Beginning March 2, Early Voting will be available at dozens of additional sites across suburban Cook County. For a complete list of locations and hours for all 55 Early Voting sites, visit ...

Dozens of municipalities across the Chicago area have referenda and propositions on the ballot in the 2026 Illinois primary, giving voters the opportunity to weigh in on local priorities.

They include the Rolling Meadows, Skokie, Bridgeview and Markham courthouses, as well as Melrose Park Village Hall and the ...

The Cook County Public Guardian is calling out the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services for withholding ...

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY: Jeffery Rhyns, 25, 19000 block of Jonathan Lane, Homewood, was arrested Dec. 26 and accused of residential burglary after entering an undisclosed address and removing items ...

On Feb. 5 police arrested a 70-year-old Markham man after a name check revealed that he had an active Cook County warrant for ...

The Illinois primary election will be held March 17. All mail-in ballots must be postmarked by Election Day and received ...

The City of Markham and Police Chief Jack Genius were hit with an employment discrimination lawsuit on Jan. 12 in Illinois Circuit Court for Cook County. The action, brought by Disparti Law Group on ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Monday night's workshop was one of three being put on by the Cook County Assessor's Office this week in some of the neighborhoods hardest hit by property tax increases. But even with ...

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...