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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

The Illinois Supreme Court has been asked to hear a lawsuit challenging where citizens can file constitutional challenges to ...

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 ...

For more than a century, my family has run a manufacturing company in Illinois. Atlas Tool Works has weathered recessions, ...

CHICAGO - Nearly two dozen lawsuits lodged by trial lawyers on behalf of out-of-state plaintiffs seeking to use Cook County's ...

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