The Cook County Board awarded $180,000 to a former county employee that sued Board of Review commissioner Samantha Steele for wrongful termination on Thursday. The county’s top watchdog, meanwhile, ...

Cook County taxpayers are set to pay $180,000 as part of a settlement involving a wrongful termination lawsuit against Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele.

Annual Tax Sale, conducted by my office directed by Illinois law, was probably a worrisome process for property owners whose property taxes were delinquent and sold.

More than six years since the ouster of former Cook County assessor and Democratic Party boss Joe Berrios, federal ...

A Tennessee man was arrested on charges of aggravated assault after he allegedly opened fire on a family that was sledding in the snow, deputies said.

A Tennessee man was arrested after deputies say he shot at a family sledding in a neighborhood. Benjamin Cook is charged with ...

The Westmoreland County coroner has deemed the death of a woman whose body was found in Ligonier Township a homicide.

As its largest tenant heads for the exit, the owner of the building at 10 S. LaSalle St. has gotten swept up in the tide of ...

Accesso Partners' handover of 20 N. Clark St. adds to the severe pain it has experienced in the vacancy-stricken Loop office ...

The Cook County Board will vote ... pressured him to leak confidential information related to the Chicago Bears' tax appeal on their Arlington Heights property. "She wanted the Bears to pay ...

Shoplifting rates in the three largest U.S. cities — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — remain higher than they were before ...