Cook County Assessor

The Cook County Assessor is the assessor and county government officer of Cook County, Illinois.

Cook County Clerk
Incumbent
Fritz Kaegi
since December 2018
Term length4 years
Inaugural holderJ.L. Jacobs
Formation1932

Office description

Before the creation of the position of Cook County Assessor in 1932, the Cook County Board of Assessors completed assessments in Cook County.[1] The Board of Assessors had been created after a law passed by the Illinois General Assembly on February 25, 1898 created a Board of Assessors in counties with 125,000 or more inhabitants.[1] The board had five members, with a rule that no more than four could reside in the same city.[1]

After an apparent fourteen month delay in determining the 1931 assessment, it was decided that the structure of assessment in Cook County, with a five member Board of Assessors and three member Cook County Board of Review needed to be restructured.[1]

On February 13, 1932, the Illinois General Assembly passed a law that in counties of 250,000 or more, the governor and the presidents of those counties' board of commissioners would appoint an Assessor to hold office until either the first Monday in December 1932, or until a successor could otherwise be elected.[1]

The first election for the office of Cook County Assessor took place in November 1934 for a four-year term.[1] The Board of Assessors was disestablished once the new assessor took office.[1]

Officeholders
Asessor Term in office Party Notes Cite
J.L. Jacobs 1932–1934 Appointed in 1932 [1]
John S. Clark 1934–1954 [1]
Frank Keenan 1954–1958 [1]
John McGuane 1958–1958 [1]
P.J. Cullerton 1958–1974 Democratic [1]
Thomas M. Tully 1974–1978 [1]
Thomas C. Hynes 1978–1997 Democratic Elected in 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994; resigned in 1997 [1][2]
James Houlihan 1997–2010 Democratic Appointed in 1997; elected in 1998, 2002, 2006 [1][2]
 Joseph Berrios December 6, 2010–December 3, 2018 Democratic Elected in 2010 and 2014; lost reelection in 2018 [1]
Fritz Kaegi December 3, 2018 Democratic Elected in 2014 [1]

Recent election results
Cook County Assessor general elections
Year Winning candidate Party Vote (pct) Opponent Party Vote (pct) Opponent Party Vote (pct) Opponent Party Vote (pct)
1986[3] Thomas C. Hynes Democratic 969,500 (357,758%) Le Roy M. Graham Republican 357,758 (26.95%)
1990[4] Thomas C. Hynes Democratic 775,493 (62.05%) Ronald Bean Republican 333,325 (26.67%) Donald Pamon Harold Washington Party 141,015 (11.28%)
1994 Thomas C. Hynes Democratic Sandra C. Wilson-Muriel Republican Donald Pamon Harold Washington Party Loretha Weisinger Populist
1998[5] James Houlihan Democratic 926,646 (75.58%) Jose Carlos Gomez Republican 260,245 (21.23%) Philip Morris Justice Party 39,111 (3.19%)
2002[6][7] James Houlihan Democratic 954,774 (75.78%) James P. Pieczonka Republican 305,176 (24.22%)
2006[8] James Houlihan Democratic 1,010,400 (80.41%) Ralph Conner Republican 246,186 (19.59%)
2010[9] Joseph Berrios Democratic 648,053 (48.03%) Forrest Claypool Independent 427,842 (31.71%) Sharon Strobeck-Eckersall Republican 237,955 (17.64%)
2014[10] Joseph Berrios Democratic 960,435 (100%)
2018[11] Fritz Kaegi Democratic 1,272,651 (76.19%) Joseph Paglia Republican 397,741 (23.81%)

References
  1. "Office History | Cook County Assessor's Office". www.cookcountyassessor.com. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  2. Kass, John (March 10, 1997). "SOME FEEL SLIGHTED IN HYNES' RESIGNATION". chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
  3. "OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1986" (PDF). voterinfo.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 3, 2008.
  4. "OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1990" (PDF). voterinfo.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 3, 2008.
  5. "OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1998" (PDF). results.cookcountyclerkil.gov.
  6. "TABULATED STATEMENT OF THE RETURNS AND PROCLAMATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE CANVASS OF THE ELECTION RETURNS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION HELD IN EACH OF THE PRECINCTS IN ALL THE WARDS IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2002 A.D." (PDF). Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  7. "SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY RESULTS". voterinfonet.com. Cook County Clerk. Archived from the original on February 9, 2005.
  8. "Cook County and the City of Chicago Combined Summary Report November 2006 General Election Tuesday, November 7th, 2006" (PDF). Cook County Clerk's Office. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  9. "Cook County General Election November 2, 2010 Combined Summary Report" (PDF). Cook County Clerk's Office. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  10. "General Election Cook County and The City of Chicago Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Combined Summary" (PDF). Cook County Clerk's Office. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  11. "Cook County and The City of Chicago General Election November 6, 2018 Combined Summary" (PDF). Cook County Clerk's Office. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
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