The I-Team had a rare look behind the scenes as the Cook County Organized Retail Crime Team met before executing arrest warrants in Operation Smokeout.

Navigating the complexities of the property tax system in Cook County can be daunting for homeowners. My hope is this column makes it less intimidating by breaking down a complex process into simple ...

This story is a collaboration between Injustice Watch and the Chicago Tribune. As a fledgling tech contractor looking to build its business in the insular world of Cook County politics, Texas ...

Cook County hit the brakes on tax lien sales after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed them unconstitutional. The county will halt delinquent property tax sales, a move that could ripple across the ...

Contesting Cook County property taxes can feel like a part-time job A Chicago homeowner’s fight for property tax relief reveals shortcomings with Cook County’s assessments and appeals process ...

Cook County Health and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Chicago are kicking off a multi-year initiative to expand efforts to increase access to mental health support across the county.

To annex the counties into Indiana and redraw the state’s borders, the process would have to include both Illinois legislature and Congress.

People are leaving Chicago to make their own state; at least that’s the idea behind a nonprofit organization called New Illinois.

The Chicago metropolitan area and Cook County both saw slight increases in population according to the most recent estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, as international immigration outpaced ...

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 ...