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Hyde Park Township Property Tax Assessment & Community Forum
By anthony.anderson at November 5, 2012 | 3:29 pm | 0 Comment
Commissioner Larry Rogers, Jr. Holds Property Tax Assessment Appeal and Community Forum in Hyde Park Township to Address Exorbitant Property Tax Bills and Crime Prevention Chicago, IL. (November 1, 2012) - Commissioner Larry Rogers, Jr. of the Cook County Board of Review will be hosting a free property tax assessment appeal and more...
Cook County Designates November As Child Support Awareness Month
By mary.paleologos at November 2, 2012 | 1:29 pm | 6 Comments
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has designated November as Child Support Awareness Month, part of an educational campaign to highlight the free services available to families seeking child support. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said the campaign’s goal is to encourage custodial parents to use the no-cost IV-D Child Support Services Program more...
Cook County Seeking Tech Talent as it Looks to Upgrade
By Communications Staff at October 30, 2012 | 5:08 pm | 1 Comments
Originally published in the October 30, 2012 edition of Blacklinereview.com Just like the ’80s blockbuster hit movie, Back to the Future, Cook County is looking back in time to see what it needs to progress forward. Currently, the technology serving the millions of county residents is, literally, trapped in time. And, while the rest of the world marches forward more...
President Preckwinkle Named a 2012 Public Official of the Year
By Communications Staff at October 24, 2012 | 11:39 am | 8 Comments
As originally published in the October 2012 issue of Governing.com The Turnaround Artist Toni Preckwinkle Running a city or county in these tough economic times is not an easy task. Just ask Cook County, Ill., Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Her first days on the job in December 2010 came with a big surprise: a previously undisclosed $487 million budget deficit. more...
Cook County Sheriff’s Office Turns Run-Down Parks Into Field of Dreams
By Communications Staff at October 23, 2012 | 5:33 pm | 0 Comment
Originally published Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at the Cook County Sheriff's website: The Cook County Sheriff's Office invites park districts throughout the county to sign up their baseball fields for Sheriff Dart's "Play Ball" program before the winter season. "It is important for students to have a productive, educational and fun environment to be a part of after more...
President Preckwinkle, Dr. Raju, Health Advocates Highlight Public Health Benefits of Cigarette Tax
By Communications Staff at October 23, 2012 | 11:00 am | 10 Comments
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCHHS) CEO Dr. Ram Raju joined with local physicians and healthcare advocates at the Cook County Trauma and Burn Unit at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital to highlight the public health benefits of a proposed $1 increase in the cigarette tax. Preckwinkle pointed to a recent analysis by more...
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President Preckwinkle Budget “Scores” According to Crain’s Chicago Business
By Communications Staff at October 22, 2012 | 5:43 pm | 0 Comment
Originally published Monday, October 22, in Crain's Chicago Business Not all local budgets play by the rules By Greg Hinz Ah, fall! Time for some fun and games: a run for a score here, a misdirection play over there, Hail Marys, an occasional fumble and (if the offense stalls) kicking it way, way down the road, er, field. I'm not talking about the Bears and more...
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Cook County Chief Of Staff, Kurt A. Summers, Aims To Streamline Second Largest County In The U.S.
By Communications Staff at October 22, 2012 | 5:42 pm | 1 Comments
Originally published on Sunday, October 21, by Huffington Post Black Voices: Chicago may be known as the “City That Works,” but that’s because the county -- Cook County that is -- works. In this day and age, reform (especially of the fiscal kind) is often lauded as the platform for any political campaign, so it was a no-brainer for newly elected Cook County more...
Assessor Berrios Alerts Taxpayers: Beware Solicitors Charging to File for Missing Property Tax Exemptions
By Communications Staff at October 16, 2012 | 2:16 pm | 0 Comment
Originally published at the Cook County Assessor's website: Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios announced there have been numerous reports of people soliciting taxpayers and offering to file exemption applications on their behalf. The solicitors, claiming to be Cook County Assessor’s Office employees, research public records and contact taxpayers who may have more...
Cook County Sheriff Kicks Off “Jail Guitar Doors” Program
By Communications Staff at October 16, 2012 | 2:08 pm | 0 Comment
Originally published Thursday, October 11, at the Cook County Sheriff website: On Thursday, October 11, the Cook County Sheriff's Office kicked off the new "Jail Guitar Doors" program at Division 11. The program will offer an eight‐week guitar lesson program for inmates. Jail Guitar Doors was founded by Billy Bragg in 2007 to honor the life of The Clash more...
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