CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cook County officials celebrated a milestone Wednesday morning on the West Side with the 1,000th renovated home as part of a county-run program. The before-and-after pictures are ...

Dalvin Cook is available to sign with any team, at any time. That’s not likely to last very long. Unlike other free-agent options at running back, such as Ezekiel Elliott and Kareem Hunt, Cook has ...

A Cook County program that helps redevelop abandoned homes in disinvested parts of the city and suburbs celebrated a milestone Thursday on Chicago’s South Side. A gray, 4,500-square-foot Victorian ...

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Commissioners are worried what to tell Cook County homeowners about bill timing or long-delayed refunds and local libraries and schools about detailed revenue projections.

Vacant foreclosed properties dot the map of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. So think of the new Cook County land bank as housing’s Georges Seurat; it’s trying to arrange all those individual dots ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- You may be one of thousands of people facing sky-high Cook County property tax bills. In fact, a record 40,000 people are filing property tax appeals because many of those ...

A Cook County senior is upset because his property tax refund is delayed, and it turns out what he thought was a small problem is actually a big mess affecting 25,000 taxpayers. A few years ago, Tom ...