Property tax appeals succeed more often than you'd think. Here's your step-by-step guide to challenge your bill — and win.

Plan includes a state motor fuel sales tax, using interest from the state’s road fund, a sales tax increase in the Chicago metro area and a sharp increase in tolls on the Illinois Tollway.

Illinois lawmakers approved a $1.5 billion funding plan to support public transit agencies without imposing the statewide ...

Lawsuits are mounting from homeowners, investors and counties. Unless lawmakers act, taxpayers could pay millions in damages over Illinois' unconstitutional tax sale system.

Chicago Public Schools went to market this week with nearly $1.1 billion of refunding bonds in the largest municipal ...

Illinois Democrats are hoping to generate about $300 million a year with a last-minute proposal to tax the unrealized gains ...

Mayor Johnson's proposal to revive a corporate "head tax" is opposed by local businesses, who fear it would be a job killer.

SOUTH BARRINGTON, Ill. (WLS) -- Millions of dollars in Cook County property tax refunds are on hold because of delays with a computer system upgrade. One local woman is still owed more than $9, 000, ...

The Illinois Department of Revenue is warning taxpayers throughout the state about a new nationwide text message scam. The scam involves seemingly urgent texts appearing to originate from state ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. A federal judge's opinion this week made the ice even ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Since a 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the gates for sports betting at a state level, Americans have wagered well over $500 billion through licensed sportsbooks. That activity has ...

The time it takes to receive a federal income tax refund could drag out six weeks and more next year for many people who are bound and determined to receive a paper check in the mail. Beginning next ...