CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said Wednesday that her office is sending checks totaling $12.5 million to homeowners who called the "Black and Latino Houses Matter" phone bank she ...

Featured on WGN Radio’s “Home Sweet Home Chicago” on Nov. 22, 2025: Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas joins the show to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- More than $100 million is waiting to be claimed by Cook County homeowners as ABC7 partners with the Cook County Treasurer's Office for the Our Homes Matter phone bank. The eighth ...

Some Cook County residents saw their property tax bills go up 100%. Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas joins Dana Kozlov to ...

Residential property tax bills are rising fastest in Black neighborhoods on the South and West sides as the county's tax ...

Cook County is saddled with a “broken system” of property tax appeals that gives breaks to business owners and wealthy white homeowners — while shifting nearly $2 billion of tax burden to the lowest ...

Some homeowners are searching for answers as they grapple with hefty property tax bills. A new report from the Cook County Treasurer’s Office said declining values for downtown commercial properties ...

Pappas said the spike was fueled in part by declining commercial property values in the Loop. Many of those buildings still ...

New legislation raises the income eligibility threshold for the Low-Income Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze from $65,000 to ...