Here’s what we learned from top Cook County candidates’ tax returns and ethics filings

The Tribune requested the past four years of tax returns from the Democratic candidates for Cook County Board president and ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Cook County homeowners grapple with skyrocketing property taxes with bills due Monday night

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Property tax bills in Cook County are due on Monday night, and the I-Team is investigating the sticker shock and the extreme hikes on many of those bills. The median residential ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Property tax foreclosures illegally stripped Cook County homeowners of their equity, federal judge rules

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Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County Board of Review bears a lot of blame for your home's property tax increase

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Chicago Tribune

Editorial: The chaotic situation involving property taxes, Cook County tax sales and governmental theft

If you are still staring at your eyewatering Cook County property tax bill — due Dec. 15, as in Monday — you might well be wondering what would happen if you failed to pay in a timely fashion. First, ...
News 13

Sumter County commissioners approve fire assessment fee increase to $355 per year

SUMTER COUNTY, Fla. — The Board of Sumter County Commissioners (BOCC) voted Tuesday night to increase the proposed fire assessment fee for the upcoming fiscal year. Last year in September, the BOCC ...
New York Post

Sophomore Ella Cook ID’d as first victim in Brown University shooting

The first victim of the deadly school shooting at Brown University has been identified as a sophomore student and vice president of the school’s college Republican club, Ella Cook, according to her ...
SCOTUSblog

Viramontes v. Cook County

09/19/2025 Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 29, 2025 to October 29, 2025, submitted to The Clerk. 09/22/2025 Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the ...
The New York Times

Victim of Shooting at Brown Remembered as ‘a Bright Light’

Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Mountain Brook, Ala., was a gifted pianist and spoke fluent French, a classmate said. By Jenna Russell and Lauren McCarthy Growing up in suburban Mountain Brook ...
CBS News

Brown University shooting victims identified as Ella Cook, Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov

The two people who were killed in a shooting at Brown University on Saturday have been identified as students Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov. The shooting took place in a classroom on the ...
Today

Courtney Cook Bales, the English Teacher Who Eats British Food on Lunch Breaks, Has Captivated TikTok

Courtney Cook Bales is certainly not the first person to eat a baked sweet potato whole — nor even to stuff hunks of cheese into a baked sweet potato then eat it whole — but she sure makes you want to ...