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

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

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 is illegally settling minor property tax debts by seizing the full value of properties.

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

Treasurer Maria Pappas is asking for more time to decide whether to appeal a judge's Dec. 8 decision in a high-profile ...

A federal judge has ruled that Cook County’s “Tax Sales” violate the constitution, potentially putting the county on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to compensate people who lost their ...

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

Cook County has its first new chief judge in more than two decades after Charles Beach was sworn in to the position earlier this month.

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