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Consulates-General are staffed by career consulate foreign nationals, usually with full diplomatic protection. Honorary consuls are accredited US citizens or residents who have official standing but are usually part-time [2] [3] The United States Department of State's Chicago regional office serves these missions.
The clerk is a citywide elected office, and is one of three city-wide elected officials in the City of Chicago, along with the Mayor and the Treasurer. The current city clerk is Anna Valencia . One former city clerk is more famous for his non-political activities: The late Baseball Hall of Famer Cap Anson served one term from 1905-1907.
The legal name of each township is the form "___ Township" or "Town of ____". [2] State law specifies that no two townships in Illinois shall have the same name, [ 3 ] and that, if the Illinois Secretary of State compares the township abstracts and finds a duplicate, the county that last adopted the name shall instead adopt a different name at ...
Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0455-9. OCLC 17210353. Miller, Donald L. (1997). City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. Simon & Schuster. pp. 282– 284, 292. ISBN 978-0-684-83138-1
The George W. Dunne Cook County Administration Building(formerly known as the Brunswick Building) is a skyscraper located at 69 West Washington Street in Chicago, Illinois. [1] [2] The building, constructed between the years 1962 and 1964, is 475 ft (144.8 m) tall, and contains 35 floors. [1] It has a concrete structure. [1]
Of the 102 counties, 85 are divided into townships. [2] [2] The remaining 17 counties are divided into 261 precincts, instead of townships. [10]In addition, all governmental functions were removed from townships in Chicago by a mayoral proclamation in 1902.
The city and county jointly sponsored an architectural competition that Holabird & Roche won by unanimous vote. [12] Construction of the county building (east wing) began in 1905, and by 1907 some county offices were already beginning to move in. [12] Construction of city hall (the west wing) was delayed until 1909 because the city had to wait for the State to increase its borrowing authority ...
Offices: Town or city: Amsterdam: Coordinates: Construction started: September 2002: Opened: June 2005: Owner - G&S Vastgoed (2002) - Commerz Real (2002-2014) - Union Investment (since 2014) Height: 100 m (328 ft) Technical details; Floor count: 25 (two underground floors excluded)