Property taxes in Cook County are based on the assessed value of a home, business or land. The Cook County Assessor’s Office ...

The Chicago Covenants project has released an interactive map of racist restrictions put on Cook County properties in the past century, the first part of a long-term project documenting ...

Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago. He has previously written for WBBM Newsradio, WUIS-FM and the New City News Service. A new interactive map might help Cook County drivers avoid road ...

The Chicago area’s population is finally growing again, with the metro area and Cook County among those nationally that added the most total residents last year, according to new Census Bureau ...

The satellite location comes after years of neighbors raising concerns about crime around the Roosevelt Green Line station.

Roughly 172,000 properties in Cook County have a high risk of flooding — about eight times more than what FEMA’s maps show, according to First Street’s assessment. In the city of Chicago ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's a troubling phenomenon nearly every time Cook County experiences a heavy downpour: Communities, sometimes whole neighborhoods, left underwater. This kind of flooding can lead ...