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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 ...
Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40 percent of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. As of 2020, the population was 5,275,541.
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 Center Square) – Illinois state Rep. La Shawn Ford is hoping to see the Homeowner Relief Fund pilot program enacted by Cook County commissioners grow to help keep even more property owners ...
The last county, Ford County, was created in 1859. Cook County, established in 1831 and named for the early Illinois Attorney General Daniel Pope Cook, contained the absolute majority of the state's population in the first half of the 20th century and retains more than 40% of it as of the 2020 census.
Pages in category "Government of Cook County, Illinois" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Cook County assistant state’s attorneys filed a union petition in 1993, but the Illinois Supreme Court later ruled that the prosecutors were “managerial employees” without the right to unionize.
Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez’s bid for reelection is being helped by political contributions from dozens of her government employees, many of whom donated within months of ...