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

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 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 ...

Lenders slowed down with Chicago-area foreclosure filings in July and August. Cook County recorded 731 foreclosure lawsuits started by lenders in July and 645 in August, rising from June’s total ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...