CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is planning to conduct the first sale of delinquent property taxes in more than two years on November 5. About $163.4 million in unpaid 2018 ...

The annual tax sale will occur Jan. 9-12 for properties with unpaid 2021 property taxes due in 2022, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said in a statement.

CHICAGO, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas plans to postpone the Annual Tax Sale for seven months, during which time she hopes to work with legislators on ...

Cook County rescued popular restaurant from tax sale, then hosted an event there The Cook County Land Bank Authority is barred from putting in a claim on occupied property, but it did so for ...

More than 45,000 properties were entered last year into Cook County’s latest annual tax sale, which lets investors pay homeowners’ late taxes and then charge them interest on the penalty.

The months-long delay in Cook County’s property tax bills is causing a snarl in home sale closings, because nobody knows how much money to put up for the tax bill.

A study by the Cook County treasurer’s office found that over a seven-year period through 2022, tax buyers recouped more than $277 million that would ordinarily go to local governments.

Efforts to overhaul Cook County’s property tax system largely fizzled out in the Illinois state legislature this session.

The Cook County tax sale begins next week on November 15. Properties with unpaid 2020 property taxes that were due last year will be offered for sale. More than 45,000 properties are eligible for ...

after that, his property, like all others, went to the cook county tax sale, where private investors swoop in to buy up that debt and they charge up to 12% per year for a total of 54% interest ...

The mall, like others, was put up in Cook County's tax sale because the owner was behind on paying property taxes. Pappas said a tax buyer snapped it up, held on to it for a few years, and then ...

CHICAGO, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas plans to postpone the Annual Tax Sale for seven months, during which time she hopes to work with legislators on ...