The Cook County Zoning Board of Appeals begins a series of hearings next week on a proposed comprehensive land-use plan, the first zoning blueprint for the county’s unincorporated areas in 21 ...

When Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin and local developers look at the 1,000 or more acres of open, unincorporated land that sits just west of the village, they see an area ripe for growth-and a po… ...

Cook County sheriffÂ’s police officer Steve Hudak patrols Country Glen Apartments in an unincorporated area near Arlington Heights. Daily Herald File Photo, 2011 ...

Unincorporated areas don't pay taxes to a municipality but instead depend on county government for services. It's unfair, inefficient and needs to change—here's how it can.

Saying unincorporated areas of the suburbs take an inordinate amount of Cook County resources, county President Toni Preckwinkle is eyeing raising fees for those neighborhoods or getting them ...

Pushing some suburban areas to join municipalities might sound like a good idea to civic groups and politicians, but persuading residents is a much different matter.

The amendment to the code in Appendix A-Zoning reduces the number of fowls from 12 to 5 for someone living on a plot of land that’s less than an acre large in unincorporated Cook County.