Sentences with phrase «cook county»

Chief of staff for the Office of the Cook County Clerk.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Wednesday is expected to become the first African - American and woman chosen to lead the county Democratic Party, a sign of a changing political landscape and her ability to weather a storm.

Cook County Democratic officials elected Toni Preckwinkle chairman of their party Wednesday, cheering her takeover as a new day for an old machine.

She also developed projects around firearms tracing and trafficking throughout suburban Cook County.

Democrats expect Cook County Chief Administrative Officer Robin Kelly to coast to Congress in Tuesday's special election.

Margaret served as the Director of Policy & Government Affairs to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart from 2012 to 2014.

Updated 10:09 a.m. State Sen. Toi Hutchinson will drop out of the the 2nd District special election Sunday and back her fellow Democrat, Cook County Chief Administrative Officer Robin Kelly, according to local news reports.

You can only get elected in Cook county as a democrat.

Not to mention an entry level roll on the bench in cook county is a pretty thankless position

«As of 2015, the five counties with the largest foreign - born populations (Los Angeles County, Calif.; Miami - Dade County, Fla.; Cook County, Ill.; Harris County, Texas and Queens County, N.Y) account for 19 % of the national immigrant population in the U.S.» Source (citizen and non-citizen alike).

According to a news story on CBS in Chicago there was a judgeship worth $ 180,000 in the Cook County judicial subcircuit that was up for grabs in the November 8th 2016 election and it was uncontested.

From describing how Orange County and Cook County turned blue and how North Carolina and Nevada will inevitably do the same, this book was full of insightful information.

Daley became chairman of the Central Committee of the Cook County Democratic Party, i.e. «boss» of the «political machine» in 1953.

Daley challenged incumbent Republican Bernard Carey for Cook County State's Attorney.

Mayor Andrew Ginther (Columbus) Mayor Bill de Blasio (NYC) Mayor Marty Walsh (Boston, MA) Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Chicago, IL) Mayor Anthony Foxx (Charlotte, NC) Mayor Richard M. Daley (Chicago, IL) Mayor John F. Street (Philadelphia, PA) Mayor Harold Washington (Chicago, IL) Mayor Dennis W. Archer (Detroit, MI) Mayor Michael R. White (Cleveland, OH) Mayor Bob Lanier (Houston, TX) Mayor Deedee Corradini (Salt Lake City, UT) Mayor Frank McDonald (Evansville, IN) Mayor Lee Brown (Houston, TX) Mayor Anthony Williams (Washington DC) Nassau County Executive, Laura Curran (NY) District Attorney Madeline Singas (Nassau County, NY) Alderman Will Burns (4th Ward — Chicago, IL) County Board President Richard Phelan (Cook County, IL) State's Attorney Richard Devine (Cook County, IL) Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo (Los Angeles, CA) Sheriff Michael Sheahan (Cook County, IL) Sheriff Tom Dart (Cook County, IL) County Clerk David Orr (Cook County, IL) Westchester County Executive Andrew Spano (Westchester, NY) Cook County Board Member Forrest Claypool

Atomatic Mechanical Services, Inc., 3733 N. Ventura Drive, got a renewal on an industrial real - estate tax incentive known as the Cook County Class 6b Property Tax.

Nazmi M. Deis, 62, was pronounced dead at 10 p.m. Sunday at Palos Community Hospital, according to the Cook County...

Ryan is to appear Tuesday before Judge Edwin Berman in Cook County Circuit Court to ask for the same type of order Berman issued Jan. 8 that ordered cemeteries to permit burial of Jews who already own burial plots in the cemeteries affected by the strike and lockout.

-- Vrdolyak, Cook County Democratic chairman and Washington «s chief antagonist, lost his bold move in the legislature to push through a measure that would have protected the administrative authority of Chicago Park District Supt. Edmund Kelly.

Cook County sheriff's police arrested a 40 - year - old Chicago man several hours later in an apartment in the same complex in the 10300 block of Michael Todd Terrace, police spokeswoman Sally Daly said.

In suburban Cook County, the rate runs about one in seven.

Frank W. Chesrow, 86, active in Chicago politics for 50 years, served as president of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago from 1958 to 1966 and was a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 1970 to 1986.

Golfers who frequent the Rolling Green Country Club now can say they golf in Arlington Heights instead of unincorporated Cook County.

In Cook County, 845,910 people can't count on a decent meal, according to the nonprofit food bank.

The fourth bomb was defused by members of the Cook County Sheriff's Department's bomb investigative unit.

After a meeting with the attorney general's office, which is the receiver of the dissolved Park District, Banc One proposed the settlement, according to a status report filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court.

Last week, the Cook County Electoral Board sustained the objection to Augustyn's candidacy following two hearings and a records examination.

The Cook County Electoral Board tossed 18 - year - old Jona Augustyn from the Arlington Heights Park District ballot, making it an uncontested race for the three open seats on the district's board of commissioners.

The Forest Preserve District is the lead agency for the project, which includes participation by the Cook County Forest Preserve District and the Villages of Addison, Oak Brook, Lyons and Brookfield.

And the Cook County Forest Preserve District is receiving a $ 400,000 grant to redevelop the Green Lake Pool at 159th Street and Torrence Avenue in Calumet City.

Pat Quinn, a supervisor in the Cook County state's attorney's office, said breast - feeding in public has never been an issue.

The 28 - year - old mother from Englewood breast - fed the 6 - pound baby, a change she credits to guidance and programs offered by Stroger Hospital of Cook County.

A spokesman from the Greater Chicago Food Depository — Cook County's largest nonprofit food distribution organization, serving 142,000 people per week — told me that the move is indeed rare.

The Cook County state's attorney's office filed a civil lawsuit last May that alleged Park District officials improperly obtained their offices, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

Most of the village is in Lake County, where property taxes are higher than they are in the Cook County section.

The food bank took in boxes of donated food and distributed it to soup kitchens in Cook County.

It now stockpiles food in a 268,000 - square - foot warehouse on the Southwest Side and serves a half - million people in Cook County each year.

The case against the park district, brought in a civil action filed last May by the Cook County state's attorney's office, alleges that park district officials improperly took office in the Southwest suburb, misspent hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers» money, failed to hold any recreational events and violated numerous governmental codes, including the Open Meetings Act.

The Northfield Park District, as expected, filed a petition in Cook County Circuit Court on Wednesday seeking a judge's permission to sue the Northbrook Park District over land in the Techny area.

NeighborSpace, a relative newcomer, was formed in 1996 by the City of Chicago, the Chicago Park District and the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.

«I don't think that you necessarily have to preserve the right to address Constitutional issues at the state level,» said Keith Reid, who lives on the Cook County side of Buffalo...

5.18 million — The number of visits to Cook County food pantries and soup kitchens between July 1, 2010, and June 30.

At the same time, the organization expects to provide food for 5.1 million people in Cook County — just shy of the record 5.2 million served between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010, Dolgan said.

Overla responded to a Craigslist ad and believed he was interacting with a 15 - year - old Berwyn girl, according to a release from the Cook County state's attorney's office.

Calling it a «defeat for the citizens and residents of Dixmoor,» a Cook County Circuit judge Wednesday dissolved the beleaguered Dixmoor Park District.

The woman is scheduled to appear in Cook County Circuit court in Bridgeview July 28 on one count of felony retail theft and one count of possession of an anti-theft-detection device, a misdemeanor.

In 1979 Chicagoan Tom O'Connell set out to alleviate hunger in Cook County by establishing the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

Although the food depository's truck started its tour in Skokie, it will usually head to other sections of Cook County with a high concentration of poverty, including the Chicago neighborhoods of Chatham, Chicago Lawn, Fuller Park, Kenwood and Uptown, Dolgan said.

Nearly 3.5 million people live in the area served by the food bank, a territory that covers more than 6,000 square miles and much of the Chicago area and its fringes, including Kankakee and Winnebago Counties, but not Cook County.

The Park District on Thursday night delayed issuing $ 1 million in bonds until it sees clearly the effect of a Cook County tax cap anticipated from the state legislature.