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The Government of Illinois, under Illinois' Constitution, has three branches of government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.The State's executive branch is split into several statewide elected offices, with the Governor as chief executive and head of state, and has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions.
Generally speaking, the mayor and city departments comprise the executive branch of the city government, and the city council comprises the legislative branch. [3] However, the mayor does have some formal legislative functions such as being the presiding officer of the council and being able to break tie votes, and informally has dominated legislative activity since the late 19th century.
The basic subdivisions of Illinois are the 102 counties. [2] Illinois has more units of local government than any other state—over 8,000 in all. [3] The Constitution of 1970 created, for the first time in Illinois, a type of "home rule", which allows localities to govern themselves to a certain extent. [4]
The Illinois state government has numerous departments, but the so-called code departments provide most of the state's services. [1] [2] Code departments.
This is a list of U.S. statewide elected executive officials.These state constitutional officers have their duties and qualifications mandated in state constitutions. This list does not include those elected to serve in non-executive branches of government, such as justices or clerks of the state supreme courts or at-large members of the state legislatures.
One measure would amend the Illinois Constitution and create a recall mechanism for all elected officials in the state. Ugaste said he plans to work with Democratic party officials on the legislation.
Of the 102 counties in the state of Illinois, 17 are divided into minor civil divisions known as precincts. [1] The 261 [citation needed] such precincts in Illinois are listed below. The remaining 85 counties are divided into 1,433 townships. [1]
While the 1970 state constitution of Illinois permits all counties to directly-elect their chief executive, Cook County is the only county in Illinois that does so. [2] Under the constitution, any county that directly elects its chief executive is a home rule county. Because Cook County already elected its county president, when the ...