Adding an auction step could make tax-delinquent properties more expensive, but homeowners would receive excess proceeds.

The Supreme Court ruled in May 2023 that tax sales as they've been practiced in several states unconstitutionally rob ...

Three Cook County residents are being detained after allegedly stealing a high-end SUV and leading police on a high-speed ...

Dozens more victims have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted while in juvenile correction centers run by the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration went to court Thursday to challenge sanctuary policies in the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago that limit the powers of state and local ...

The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, claims sanctuary policies in Illinois that keep local ...

Federal officials are asking a judge to bar the Illinois, Chicago, Cook County and the Cook County Sheriff from using local ...

Nearly 2 million Illinoisans, with around half in Cook County, relied on federal food assistance in October 2024, marking a ...

Illinoisans pay the second-highest gas taxes in the nation at more than $0.84 per gallon. Only California charges its drivers ...

A jackpot-winning lottery ticket worth $10.4 million was sold in northwest suburban Cook County last weekend, according to ...