It's a taxing weekend for Cook County home owners. In tough economic times, many are coping with confusing double digit property tax increases....
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Chicago
Would you be willing to rat out a business that's cheating Chicago on taxes in exchange for a share of back taxes recovered?...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 10.15.2009 | Chicago
Arguing that Chicagoans are "suffering" and can't stand to pay any more, Mayor Daley said Thursday he would hold the line all taxes, fines and fees in...
Paras Bhayani | Posted 10.08.2009 | Chicago
Pity Todd Stroger, the embattled Cook County Board chief who, having served the machine faithfully, is now being tossed under the bus as voters turn their ire on tax-happy politicians.
ABC7 Chicago | | Posted 09.27.2009 | Chicago
Chicago home owners will see an increase on their next property tax bill. The Chicago Public School Board approved a one and a half percent increas...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 08.30.2009 | Chicago
Even after the city exhausts a $320 million rainy day fund created by leasing the city's parking meters, it still must find $520 million in costs savi...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago
Arguing that downtown restaurants, retailers and theaters desperately need a shot in the arm, a group of aldermen today proposed their very own Chicag...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago
The pocketbooks of Chicago residents, workers and visitors won't be gobbled up by a big, single tax bite at the start of the year, but they could be n...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 12.19.2008 | Chicago
Mayor Richard Daley said today that the state should expand a state program that provides property tax relief to disabled, low-income, elderly residen...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago
Months after convincing commissioners to approve a one-penny-on-the-dollar sales tax increase, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger said Wednesday...
Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago
Cook County Clerk David Orr's annual TIF report is due out tomorrow, and the news is all bleak. On the one hand, the city's tax increment financing d...
Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 11.09.2008 | Chicago
A few hours after my property tax bill arrived in the mail last week, I took the dog for a walk and bumped into a neighbor. "My taxes went up again," ...
Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago
If paying taxes makes you patriotic, Chicagoans should get a memorial built in their honor (or just add Harry Caray's face to Mount Rushmore).
Chi Town Daily News | Paul D. Bowker | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan told state legislators yesterday that a "modest income tax hike" should be considered so that school funding ...
Chicago Magazine | Dennis Rodkin | Posted 10.04.2008 | Chicago
Now that we have pretty much accepted that our homes are worth less than they used to be, a question comes up: If the value of my home is dropping, wi...
CBS 2 | Vince Gerasole | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago