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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

But they have one thing in common: Unlike 97 percent of Cook County's 5.3 million residents, the 126,114 residents of the county's unincorporated areas do not pay taxes to a municipality.