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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...
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...
New Gambling, Bullet Taxes in Cook County Budget
By Communications Staff at October 19, 2012 | 10:47 am | 4 Comments
From the October 18, 2012 edition of Chicago Tonight.com Expect cigarettes, gambling, and bullets to cost more in Cook County, according to Board President Toni Preckwinkle's 2013 budget. She joins us on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm to discuss plugging a $268 million deficit. Read her proposals below. Click here for more...
President Preckwinkle Discusses 2013 Budget with the Sun-Times Editorial Board
By Communications Staff at October 18, 2012 | 4:03 pm | 2 Comments
From the October 18, 2012 edition of Chicago Sun-Times.com: Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is relying on smokers, gamblers, gun-toters and even the federal government to balance the county’s budget in 2013, she announced Thursday. She’s proposing a $1-a-pack tax hike on cigarettes and, as first reported by the Sun-Times, a new more...
Text of the 2013 Budget Address
By Communications Staff at October 18, 2012 | 12:37 pm | 10 Comments
I am here today to present my FY2013 Budget to the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Two years ago, we began to chart a new course for the County. And it is a result of our work that we have solved for nearly $1 billion in deficits since taking office. But our work is far from over; I come before you today with another challenge. This year, we started with a $268 more...
President Preckwinkle Announces Changes to Highway Department
By Communications Staff at October 17, 2012 | 9:32 am | 0 Comment
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced today important changes to the Cook County Highway Department, renaming it the Department of Transportation and Highways, broadening the scope of the Department’s mission to take focus on regional strategic planning and make the department eligible for more federal grant funding. Currently, the department’s more...
President Preckwinkle Heralds Key Public Safety Investments for 2013
By Communications Staff at October 16, 2012 | 1:46 pm | 0 Comment
Cook County Board Toni Preckwinkle announced today the completion of the first significant phase of recommendations laid out in the comprehensive Bond Court study, furthering the County’s efforts to make sustainable and systemic changes to the criminal justice system by working to reduce the jail population and the related costs of public safety in Cook County. The more...
President Preckwinkle, Cook County Hospitals Announce Service Improvements at Stroger Hospital
By Communications Staff at October 9, 2012 | 12:42 pm | 1 Comments
Originally published at the Cook County Health & Hosptials Website: On Friday, October 5, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Cook County Health and Hospitals System (CCHHS) CEO Dr. Ramanathan Raju announced significant progress in two key areas relating to patient care at the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, CCHHS’ flagship more...
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