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By April 18, 2016, more than 9,200 same-sex couples had received marriage licenses in Cook County (from February 2014), with projections that the number of marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples would reach over 10,000 by summer 2016. The 10,000th same-sex marriage license in Cook County was issued on August 31, 2016. [81]
On February 21, 2014, a federal judge authorized Cook County to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples without waiting for the Illinois statute legalizing same-sex marriage to take effect on June 1, and the county clerk began issuing licenses immediately. [21] [22]
Clerk Term in office Party Notes Cite 1st George Davis: 1837–1849 First elected Cook County Clerk [1]2nd Edmund S. Kimberly: 1849–1853 [1]3rd Charles B. Farwell
The following individuals applied for marriage licenses in January: Ashley Marie Fritter and Edward Joel Griffith. James Albert Nau and Arlene Nancy Hupp
Richard Jones Hamilton, First Circuit Court Clerk of Cook County, 1831–1841. On January 1, 1964, the circuit courts of Cook County were unified. [1] Before this, there were more than 200 separate courts in Cook County. [1] In its unified form, it now had a single, popularly elected, clerk of court. [1]
A marriage certificate is given to a couple who have married. Until the introduction of electronic registration of marriages in May 2021, copies were made in two registers: one was retained by the church or register office; the other, when the entire register is full, was sent to the superintendent registrar of the registration district.
The Cook County Sheriff's Office is the sheriff.All Cook County Sheriff's Deputies have police powers regardless of their particular job function or title. Like other Sheriffs' departments in Illinois, the Sheriff can provide all traditional law-enforcement functions, including county-wide patrol and investigations irrespective of municipal boundaries, even in the city of Chicago, but has ...
Orr and ordered that Cook County's officials must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Other counties followed several days later. [269] Illinois had already signed into law a legislation granting marriage to same-sex couples on 20 November 2013 which took effect on 1 June 2014 [270]