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Pappas Publishes Report On Alleged Abuses of Sales In Error

In October 2022, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas published a report about purported abuses of the sale in error provisions of the...

Cook County Treasurer: 55,000+ properties in 2020 Annual Tax Sale starting November 15.

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas will conduct the annual sale of delinquent 2020 property taxes (due in 2021) starting November 15,...

Cook County governments have lost $89.7 million letting tenants skip out on property taxes.

Have you ever wondered how much money is lost when the government does not ensure its tenants are paying real estate taxes on leased...

Cook County Treasurer Pappas: More than 37,000 Properties in 2019 Annual Sale Starting May 12th

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas will conduct the annual sale of delinquent 2019 property taxes from May 12 – 18, 2022. This tax sale...

Cook County Land Bank Facilitates Owner of Property Not Paying Real Estate Taxes for 12 Years

Josephine’s Cooking hasn’t paid property taxes in 12 years. However, the Cook County Land Bank Authority, a county government agency,...

Cook County Treasurer Changes to Scavenger Tax Sale are Not Enough

The 2022 Cook County Scavenger Tax Sale will have some administrative changes but they do not go far enough. Read more here (courtesy of...

Cook County Treasurer Announces 2022 Scavenger Tax Sale

The 2022 Cook County Scavenger Tax Sale is scheduled to begin on February 14, 2022. In order to be eligible for the scavenger sale a...

Cook County Treasurer Pappas Finally Announces Tax Sale

Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas announced the first sale of delinquent property taxes in more than two years, which will start on...

Cook County Workers On Strike

About 2,000 Cook County employees went on strike in June. This includes employees in the Cook County Clerk's office. You can read more...

Cook County Should Explore Changes to Scavenger Tax Sale

Cook County is looking at possibly reforms to scavenger tax sales and the procedures to obtaining tax deeds. This article (courtesy of...

Nearly 15,000 homes may be lost to tax sales in Black suburbs

Nearly 15,000 homes in Chicago’s outlying suburban communities that have large Black populations may be lost through tax sales, according...

Black and Latino Houses Matter

Black and Latino Houses Matter phone bank helps Cook County Treasurer return $12.5M to property owners