Federal judge rules the system violates the “takings” clause, but compensation for homeowners in class-action lawsuit remains ...

Modernization is a top priority for the first new chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County in decades. Charles Beach ...

A federal judge ruled Cook County is illegally settling minor property tax debts by seizing the full value of properties.

CHICAGO - Cook County's longstanding system of collecting property tax debts by seizing and selling people's homes, worth ...

A federal judge ruled Cook County’s tax sale system unconstitutional for stripping homeowners of equity, leaving potential liability for thousands of cases, the Tribune reports.

A federal judge has ruled that Cook County’s “Tax Sales” violate the constitution, potentially putting the county on the hook ...

The case affects more than 1,700 homeowners who lost their properties in tax sales, but whether the county owes them money ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Since COVID-19 took down regular operations of the nation's second largest court system, thousands of Cook County criminal and civil cases have been put on ice. The ABC7 I-Team has ...

As we have written before, this system feels like something from the 19th century; it has the historical stench of a racist ...

On Friday, the three-judge appellate panel said only six Illinois families will continue with their infant-formula injury ...