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.

Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission” to redraw state lines and absorb 33 rural Illinois counties that want to split ...

CHICAGO — Cook County is trying to make navigating its services easier for people, regardless of what language they speak. Starting Tuesday, people who may not speak English but need help from the ...

Of the 97 local health departments in Illinois, Cook County Health is losing two CDC grants totaling $31 million aimed at supporting COVID-19 recovery, health equity and community health worker ...

Join us again for a day in the woods. University of Illinois Extension, DeKalb County Forest Preserve, DeKalb County Soil and Water Conservation District, and DeKalb County Health Department have ...

An Illinois Policy Institute analysis tracked all single-family and condominium properties in Cook County during 2006 and 2023 with market values between $25,000 and $2.5 million. Property tax ...

“What we are trying to do is obtain representative government, truly representative government for people outside of Cook County,” said New Illinois Chair G.H. Merritt. The organization says ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – The Office of the State Fire Marshal released new maps that indicate which parts of San Diego County are in a very high-risk zone for fires. For the first time in 15 years ...

"Before these maps were produced, I thought the very high fire severity zones were really gonna reach down deep, deep down into Altadena. And they haven't," L.A. County Fire Deputy Chief Albert ...

Cook, Kendall and Kankakee at 21%; and Lake and Kane at 20%. The interactive map below shows the percentage of adults who self-reported excessive drinking in each county in Illinois in 2022.

Below is an interactive map with the county-by-county self-reported excessive drinking data. Researchers noted that there are some caveats to the data. In states or counties with a smaller ...