First, the median Illinois household saw a 38 percent hike in its effective property tax rate between the 2002-2004 and 2013-2015...

The South Cook workshop is on Thursday, September 27th 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. at the South Suburban Housing Center: 18220 Harwood Ave., #1,...

SSMMA President and Hazel Crest Village Board President Vernard Alsberry The Prevailing Wage Advisory Task Force, created by the Cook...

The changes, however, also had an unintended consequence: Thousands of homes in south suburbs such as Harvey and Park Forest fell off the...

Olympia Fields has a black homeownership rate of 98 percent. It is one of only a handful of sizeable, majority-black communities in the...

NeighborhoodLIFT provides eligible homebuyers with $15,000 to use toward down payment and closing costs on qualified homes. For veterans...

Please share with your communities: WHAT: 2018 Pre-filing Kick-off Tax Appeal Forum with Commissioner Larry Rogers Jr. WHEN: Monday, July...

In the north Cook suburbs, residential tax bills are up by about 3 percent, and in the south suburbs by about 4.8 percent, according to...

Even if homeowners wanted to find tax relief by moving to new communities, many can’t afford to do so. As written in a recent Crain’s...

Metropolitan Mayors Caucus (MMC) and its partners, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) and Metropolitan Planning...

The proposed solution? Force Illinois homeowners, who already pay among the highest property taxes in the nation, to pay billions more...

City of Chicago Heights will kick-start a planning process to “transform” the city’s economically struggling Eastside-Downtown...

The Illinois Housing Development Authority is now accepting applications under the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Development...

Image courtesy of the Village of Homewood In a new comic-strip ad campaign, Homewood, Illinois, bills itself as a hip, diverse, urban...

At the end of 2017, more than 135,000 Chicago-area home borrowers owed more on the mortgage than the property was worth, according to a...

Illinois Housing Development Authority; please share with your communities. Up to $10,000 in Down Payment Assistance Now Available...

Park Forest will serve on a panel discussing the topic “Clean It or Lien It: Dealing with Vacant and Blighted Properties” as part of the...

Lawmakers who gain income from the status quo have little incentive to tackle meaningful property-tax reform, Rauner said. So, he is...

More hospitals have sought details on how to launch such a program, including prominent Northwestern Medicine, said Stephen Brown,...