Cook County Assessor

Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios, who has said on multiple occasions that he hires his family members and does not feel bad about doing so, received a...

Chicago homeowners looking to challenge their property's assessed value can now save a trip downtown by filing their appeals online, via a new system ...

Weeks after Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios drew criticism for putting his son and sister on the payroll, a report was sent out by two county watc...

Many in the third estate took incoming Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios to task earlier this week for hiring several members of his immediate family t...

During the race for Cook County Assessor, Democrat Joe Berrios faced frequent allegations of nepotism and clout. And it's not hard to see why: in his ...

Democrat Joe Berrios won the hotly contested Cook County Assessor race Tuesday, defeating Independent Forrest Claypool. Berrios currently serves on ...

Illinois is in a unique position this year to have a major say in the balance of power in the U.S. Congress. With five contested House races and a nec...

UPDATE: From the Joe Berrios campaign: the two $4,500 donations from Toni Berrios were in fact just one, an in-kind donation to rent a restaurant f...

A bombshell announcement was made at a morning press conference Wednesday, which will have major ramifications for an upcoming election in Chicago. O...

The two leading candidates for Cook County Assessor appeared on WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" last night, but it was the Democrat who came under fire for m...

Things are getting personal in the Cook County Assessor's race. At the end of August, Chicago Magazine published a story in conjunction with the Bett...

Forrest Claypool, who is running as an independent for Cook County Assessor picked up a slew of endorsements Wednesday, with 9th District Congresswoma...

Berrios stands as a prime example of the kind of closed, self-interested politics that plagues this state. The Board of Review, where he has spent the...

It happened to Meg Whitman in California, and Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin. Bill and Hillary Clinton both had to grapple with it, as did Madonna and Br...

Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool, a Democrat running as an independent for county assessor, will take on insider Joe Berrios in November.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is trying to prevent new burials from taking place in a 10-acre parcel of Burr Oak cemetery where human remains were dug ...

Forrest Claypool formally entered the race for Cook County Assessor Tuesday morning, launching a fiery opening barrage against his Democratic opponent...

Forrest Claypool is about to take the biggest risk of his political career. On Tuesday, this columnist has learned, he will declare war on his own Dem...

Carol Marin is the latest to try to make us all feel sorry for poor little Forrest Claypool and his quixotic attempt to worm his way onto the ballot as an independent for Cook County assessor.

It's no mystery that Cook County has had its share of political corruption, but a study released Thursday puts it into perspective: 150 top Cook Count...

Former judge and Democratic Cook County Assessor candidate Raymond A. Figueroa was hurt in a fight outside his home Tuesday night, before landing the ...

Cook County Assessor James Houlihan announced today that he won't seek re-election next year....

Mayor Richard Daley said today that the state should expand a state program that provides property tax relief to disabled, low-income, elderly residen...

A band of Cook County Commissioners plan to introduce a proposal to create a so-called "circuit-breaker" fund that would give relief to low-income hom...

Mayor Daley today denounced as a "political stunt" Assessor Jim Houlihan's plan to siphon money away from Chicago's tax-increment-financing (TIF) dist...