The Cook County Assessor is in charge of appraising the county’s land parcels and handling tax incentives, exemptions and ...

A group of hopeful Cook County property owners eager to get breaks on their tax bills are likely to end up disappointed.

The Democratic primary contest for Cook County assessor pits a two-term millionaire running on systemic reform against a ...

Roughly 20,000 approved certificate-of-error refunds, worth more than $46 million in total, are currently stuck at the Cook ...

Lyons Township Assessor Pat Hynes seized on Cook County voters' dissatisfaction with property taxes to upset incumbent ...

After expensive and bruising campaigns, Cook County voters fanned out to choose their Democratic nominee for County Board ...

Kaegi has been in office since 2018. He's being challenged by one of his own — first-term Lyons Township Assessor Patrick Hynes, who spent 23 years working in the Cook County assessor’s office as a ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi took office in 2018 pledging to rid the office of corruption and create a process that more equitably shares the tax burden between homeowners and businesses. Eight ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (WGN) — In an election that holds the attention of homeowners in Cook County, Pat Hynes has been projected the winner to unseat incumbent Fritz Kaegi in the Democratic primary for ...

A Morgan Park family is still in shock after a staggering 300% spike in their latest property tax bill, and the man poised to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Candidates running for office in Cook County started filing their paperwork Monday. The race for the assessor's office is expected to be heated after recent controversy over property ...