After a proposed ban on roosters in unincorporated Cook County, the birds are no longer on the chopping block, but the number of furry friends in your home is now capped at three.

It permanently ends the county's vehicle registration fines and fees. This only applies to unincorporated parts of the county. It takes effect June 30 next year.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle wants to charge the 100,000 residents of unincorporated areas a $150-per-household fee, to account for the fact that they alone use services paid for ...

About 2.4 percent, or 126,034, of Cook County's 5.2 million residents live in unincorporated areas.

Unincorporated areas of Cook County are a “financial burden” to the county, according Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, which issued a 200-page independent report Thursday to ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle wants to accelerate efforts to do away with unincorporated areas over the next several years, saying today that the county can no longer afford to ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced Monday she is pushing to eliminate all unincorporated land within the county. She is asking for surrounding villages and tow ...

Preckwinkle offered no timeline to eliminate the unincorporated areas where roughly 98,000 of the county’s 5.2 million residents live, nor did she estimate what the county would save by no ...