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, which includes the City of Chicago, is the United States' second-largest county with a population of 5.2 million residents. The county board sets policy and laws for the county regarding property, public health services, public safety, and maintenance of county highways.[1] It is presided over by its president, currently Toni Preckwinkle.

Cook County Board of Commissioners
Agency overview
HeadquartersChicago City Hall
118 N. Clark Street Chicago, Illinois
Employees22,000 (2014)
Annual budgetUS$ 3.1 billion (2014)
Agency executive
Websitecookcountyil.gov

The commissioners, president, and county clerk (who serves as clerk of the board), hold the same offices ex officio on the separate governmental taxing body, the Cook County Forest Preserve District Board of Commissioners.

Elections

The board's seventeen commissioners are elected from individual constituencies for four year terms, with elections for all constituencies held during United States midterm elections.[2] Its president is elected at-large to a four-year term in elections held during United States midterm elections.

Up through 1990, commissioners were elected through two sets of elections, one held in Chicago to elect ten commissioners and another held in suburban Cook County to elect the remaining seven commissioners. In 1994, the board switched to having commissioners elected from individual constituencies.[3]

Composition
Affiliation Members
  Democratic Party 15
  Republican Party 2
 Total
 17

List of County Commissioners

This is a list of the Cook County Commissioners in order by district. This list is current as of April 17, 2020.

DistrictCommissionerResidenceIn office sinceParty
President
(at-large)		Toni PreckwinkleChicago2010Democratic
1Brandon JohnsonChicago2018Democratic
2Dennis DeerChicago2017Democratic
3Bill LowryChicago2018Democratic
4Stanley MooreChicago2013Democratic
5Deborah SimsChicago1994Democratic
6Donna MillerLynwood2018Democratic
7Alma AnayaChicago2018Democratic
8Luis Arroyo, Jr.Chicago2014Democratic
9Peter N. SilvestriElmwood Park1994Republican
10Bridget GainerChicago2009Democratic
11John P. DaleyChicago1992Democratic
12Bridget DegnenChicago2018Democratic
13Larry SuffredinEvanston2002Democratic
14Scott R. BrittonGlenview2018Democratic
15Kevin B. MorrisonMount Prospect2018Democratic
16Frank AguilarCicero2020Democratic[4]
17Sean M. MorrisonPalos Park2015Republican

See also

References
  1. About the Cook County Board of Commissioners Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2020)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. "CHOICES FOR COOK COUNTY BOARD". Chicago Tribune. 22 October 1998. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  4. Hinton, Rachel (April 16, 2020). "Mystery shrouds closed-door vote on Tobolski successor". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
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