After a year of finger pointing between a private company and Cook County, property owners are finally getting property tax ...

Cook County is on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to homeowners who lost their homes and equity as a result of the annual county tax sale, a judge has ruled.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas will celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by recognizing community leaders, cultural advocates and business owners whose ...

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

Maria Pappas is the treasurer of Cook County, Illinois, the second-largest county in America. She is now 75, and some time ago, the treasurer developed a bucket list. MARIA PAPPAS: I want to, you know ...

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Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas will host a reception for Cook County's Haitian community following today's public Haitian Flag Raising Ceremony in Chicago's Daley Plaza. The celebration is in ...

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas announced her plans to run for Chicago mayor in 2027. In a statement on Tuesday, Pappas said "I'm unofficially in the race and am not getting out." Pappas said she ...

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 ...

Ongoing software upgrades and a massive backlog of 290,000 property tax appeals have stalled tens of thousands of Cook County ...