Cook County
Recent News About Cook County
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Pritzker on new Deputy Governor: 'Bria Scudder has already shown her dedication to public service and the people of Illinois'
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) named Bria Scudder as Deputy Governor for Public Safety, Infrastructure, Environment and Energy, effective April 10
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Pritzker spokesperson Edelstein on Vallas: '[Chicago] residents deserve to know if their next Mayor will listen to experts or instead to right-wing talk show hosts'
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D), through his campaign spokesperson Natalie Edelstein, made a veiled attack on Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas in a statement provided to HuffPost
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Soderlund: 'The Democratic Party will do anything and everything to grab as much power as they can'
Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently donated $500,000 to the Democratic Party of Illinois to bolster school board candidates in what critics charge seeks to boost a liberal extremist agenda that promotes inappropriate sexual education curriculum, among other things.
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St. Charles school board candidate Palacious: 'Outside donations...to manipulate school board elections do not help'
St. Charles School Board 303 candidate Eli Palacious frowns on the level of partisanship interjected into races like his.
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Ottawa High School board candidate Mammen: 'Pushing for meetings to be more open'
Ottawa High School board candidate Josh Mammen wants to take politics out of local school board elections.
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Illinois Policy: 'None of Illinois’ neighbor states are ruled through emergency powers'
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) recently issued his 40th COVID-related disaster proclamation and extended his emergency powers
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Judicial Integrity Project executive director Forsyth: 'If we don’t have confidence in the opinions the judicial branch issues then our judicial branch is failing'
Governor J.B. Pritzker's (D-IL) political campaign reportedly donated $1 million each to the campaigns of former State Supreme Court candidates Mary O'Brien and Elizabeth Rochford
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Pritzker: 'Those are all important things that I don't think have been fully fleshed out by either one of those candidates'
Gov. J.B. Pritzker spent heavily in this month's city elections, handsomely donating to the campaigns of several city council candidates on Mar 3.
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Former Illinois Secretary of State endorses Vallas for Chicago mayor: 'Our neighborhoods will be better'
Former Illinois Secretary of State, Jesse White, announced March 2 that he is endorsing, Paul Vallas, to be Chicago’s next mayor.
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Pritzker: 'The government at the state and local level has tried hard to attract big retail food chains to neighborhoods'
J.B. Pritzker , Governor of State of Illinois , State of Illinois said Gov. J.B. Pritzker is pushing the Illinois Grocery Initiative as part of his new state budget, which calls for a $20 million investment to fight food deserts to expand food access. on Feb 22nd.
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Illinois governor: 'This has been done in the past, and it doesn’t stop with just snuffing out ideas'
Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois reserved a special mention in his recent State of the State Address to blast what he called “demagogues who are pushing censorship".
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'The beginning of the end of early childhood deserts in Illinois': Pritzker unveils plan to increase spending on child care, education
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced in a speech Wednesday that he has earmarked additional funding for education and child care as part of his $49.6 billion budget.
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Pritzker on abortion rights: 'People come to Illinois to exercise what are their fundamental rights'
Gov. J.B. Pritzker is one of two Democratic state leaders now pledging to defend access to abortion procedures while pushing the federal government to do more.
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Robbery victim attorney to City of Chicago: 'Why was this criminal and his crew allowed to, over a course of days, commit complete mayhem?'
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been slapped with a lawsuit over the city's non-pursuit policy by a Lincoln Park culinary student who was shot three times during a robbery on the North Side last year on Feb. 9.
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Miller on Chicago's falling arrest rates: 'We need more officers on the street'
Rep. Chris Miller (R-Oakland) has major concerns over recent statistics showing that while crime is up in Chicago, arrest rates are falling exponentially, and he is blaming it on the city’s leadership.
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Dodge on low arrest rates: ‘Until city and state leaders do their jobs to enforce the law, it won’t change’
On the heels of the release of arrest statistics that show that the Chicago Police Department is letting more than a fair share of major crimes go unresolved, Orchard Park Trustee Jim Dodge addressed the matter.
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Pritzker: DeSantis' criticism of AP high school curriculum 'political grandstanding'
In what could be a preview of what voters can expect in the run-up to the 2024 presidential race, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is sparring with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over education.
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From North Cook News
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle Announces Additional Events and Details for Fourth Annual Racial Equity Week, September 12-16, 2022
The office of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced additional events and details for the upcoming fourth annual Racial Equity Week, to be held September 12-16, 2022.
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President Preckwinkle extends deadline for loan fund to address property tax delays
Hundreds of millions of dollars available to local governments
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From West Cook News
Cook County Kicks Off National Preparedness Month
Cook County’s Department of Emergency Management and Regional Security is sharing preparedness information and resources throughout September