The President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is the
chief executive
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CEOs find roles in variou ...
of county government in
Cook County
Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40 percent of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. ...
,
Illinois
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.
They are the head of the
Cook County Board of Commissioners
The Cook County Board of Commissioners is a legislative body made up of 17 commissioners who are elected by district, and a president who is elected county-wide, all for four-year terms. Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, which includes the City ...
. The president is chosen in a county-wide general election for a 4-year term, without term limits, at the same time that the county elects single-district board members.
Office description
Duties of the President include presenting a balanced budget to the Board for approval, as well as overseeing County Board meetings and the Bureaus of Offices Under the President. This grants them the ability to veto or approve ordinances and resolutions, as well as the ability to appoint certain employees to the Cook County administration, though they may need the consent of the Board to do so.
Additionally, the President must present an annual report to the Board on county affairs and its finances, which would require reports and an examination of Cook County administrative units, as well as their properties. The President is also able to enter into intergovernmental agreements as well as agreements with the private sector with the consent and advice of the Board.
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While the 1970 state constitution of Illinois permits all counties to directly-elect their chief executive, Cook County is the only county in Illinois that does so. Under the constitution, any county that directly elects its chief executive is a ]home rule
Home rule is the government of a colony, dependent country, or region by its own citizens. It is thus the power of a part (administrative division) of a state or an external dependent country to exercise such of the state's powers of governan ...
county. Because Cook County already elected its county president, when the constitution went into effect it was the only county that automatically became a home rule county (by virtue of having a directly-elected chief executive.
Officeholders
Recent election results
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, 1986
, , George Dunne
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, , 808,126 (60.61%)
, , Joseph D. Matthewson
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, 1990
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, , Richard J. Phelan
, , Democratic
, , 714,638 (55.65%)
, , Aldo DeAngelis
, , Republican
, , 405,771 (31.60%)
, Text style="background:#D2B48C , Barbara J. Norman
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, Text style="background:#D2B48C , 163,817 (12.76%)
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, , John H. Stroger, Jr.
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, Text style="background:#D2B48C , Aloysius Majerczyk
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, 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
, , John H. Stroger, Jr.
, , Democratic
, , 834,972 (63.49%)
, , Aurelia Marie Pucinski
, , Republican
, , 480,191 (36.61%)
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, , John H. Stroger, Jr.
, , Democratic
, , 901,679 (68.73%)
, , Christopher A. Bullock
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, , 410,155 (31.27%)
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, 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
, , Todd H. Stroger
, , Democratic
, , 690,945 (53.68%)
, , Tony Peraica
, , Republican
, , 596,212 (46.32%)
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, 2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
, , Toni Preckwinkle
, , Democratic
, , 939,056 (69.54%)
, , Roger A. Keats
, , Republican
, , 357,070 (26.44%)
, , Thomas Tresser
, , Green
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, 2014
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, , Toni Preckwinkle
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, , 1,072,886 (100%)
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, 2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
, , Toni Preckwinkle
, , Democratic
, , 1,355,407 (96.11%)
, ''Others''
, Write-ins
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, 2022
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Libertarian
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, , 44,615 (3.16%)
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Notes
References
{{Cook County, Illinois government
1876 establishments in Illinois
Lists of Illinois politicians