Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday tapped a Cook County official to run the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security. Theodore “Ted” D. Berger most recently worked under Cook ...

Hopefuls were already staking their claims Wednesday to vie for three major property tax offices on the 2026 ballot: county assessor and two seats on the county’s Board of Review.

As she worked the campaign trail more than a year ago, Cook County state’s attorney hopeful ... right” to collective bargaining in the Illinois Constitution. Also last year, the Chicago Board of ...

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Cook County could soon launch a program to pay residents cash to help pay their property tax bills. The program would give $1,000 to residents struggling to pay rapidly-increasing taxes.

Homeowners in Cook County may soon see some relief from property tax increases. The Cook County Board of Commissioners on Thursday approved eligibility rules for the Cook County Homeowner Relief ...

People with mental illnesses are far likelier to be victims than to commit crimes. But a small number of unprovoked, midday killings downtown examined by the Sun-Times shows big gaps in care for ...

in Chicago, the sheriff’s office ... an independent investigation requested of the Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force. The Cook County state’s attorney’s office said Thursday ...

Cook County is considering offering ... Gainer and others in the county worked with the University of Chicago to understand who had a sharp, unexpected increase in property taxes and who was ...

For example, that might include more participants who live in Chicago now that the city’s program has ended. About 15% of people in Cook County Promise lived in Chicago and the rest lived in the ...