Cook County Board of Commissioners

Cook County Board of Commissioners

Title page of the Cook County Code of Ordinances
Agency overview
Headquarters Chicago City Hall
118 N. Clark Street Chicago, Illinois
Employees 22,000 (2014)
Annual budget US$ 3.1 billion (2014)
Agency executive
Website cookcountyil.gov

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 the County Board President, currently Toni Preckwinkle.

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

Composition

Affiliation Members
  Democratic Party 13
  Republican Party 4
 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 August 5, 2017.

DistrictCommissionerResidenceIn office sinceParty
President
(at-large)		Toni PreckwinkleChicago2010Democratic
1Richard BoykinChicago2014Democratic
2Dennis DeerChicago2017Democratic
3Jerry ButlerChicago1986Democratic
4Stanley MooreChicago2013Democratic
5Deborah SimsChicago1994Democratic
6Ed MoodyChicago Ridge[2]2016Democratic
7Jesús "Chuy" GarcíaChicago2010Democratic
8Luis Arroyo, Jr.Chicago2014Democratic
9Peter N. SilvestriElmwood Park1990Republican
10Bridget GainerChicago2009Democratic
11John P. DaleyChicago1992Democratic
12John FritcheyChicago2010Democratic
13Larry SuffredinEvanston2002Democratic
14Gregg GoslinGlenview1998Republican
15Tim SchneiderBartlett2006Republican
16Jeffery R. TobolskiMcCook2010Democratic
17Sean M. MorrisonPalos Park2015Republican

See also

References

  1. ↑ About the Cook County Board of Commissioners Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Koeske, Zak (October 8, 2016). "Moody unanimous choice for vacant Cook County Board seat". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
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