CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cook County officials celebrated a milestone Wednesday morning on the West Side with the 1,000th renovated home as part of a county-run program. The before-and-after pictures are ...

A Cook County program that helps redevelop abandoned homes in disinvested parts of the city and suburbs celebrated a milestone Thursday on Chicago’s South Side. A gray, 4,500-square-foot Victorian ...

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Cook County is offering more tools, data, and transparency to help property owners understand and verify their property assessments. From open data releases to detailed methodology worksheets, ...

Vacant foreclosed properties dot the map of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. So think of the new Cook County land bank as housing’s Georges Seurat; it’s trying to arrange all those individual dots ...

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The head of the Cook County agency designed to give new life to tax-delinquent houses is leaving his post after a six-year run. Rob Rose, who took over as executive director of the Cook County Land ...

Cook County property tax bills will be late again this year, the treasurer’s office bluntly affirmed this week, as various offices continue to try to catch up from last year’s troubles and address ...

Recently residents in Northeastern Minnesota are begin targeted by scammers wanting to apply or contact county departments. Recently, scammers are impersonating Cook County’s Land Services staff.

Federal prosecutors last month subpoenaed the Cook County Land Bank Authority for records as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the program, which was formed to promote economic ...