Browsing Tag Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle
President Preckwinkle Cuts Ribbon at Country Club Hills Wellness Center
By Sebastian James at September 26, 2012 | 10:32 am | 1 Comments
President Preckwinkle, joined by Reverend Harry Roberts, President, Board of Directors of South Suburban PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) and Mayor Welch of County Club Hills, cut the ribbon on their new Wellness Center in Country Club Hills, yesterday morning. In her remarks, President Preckwinkle remembered that the group assembled had been at the ground more...
Preckwinkle, Orr, Volunteers Team Up for National Voter Registration Day
By Sebastian James at September 26, 2012 | 9:31 am | 0 Comment
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Cook County Clerk David Orr kicked off a countywide nonpartisan voter registration drive yesterday at the Markham courthouse in conjunction with National Voter Registration Day. The voter registration deadline is Oct. 9 for the Nov. 6, 2012 Presidential Election. Preckwinkle, a former high school more...
President Preckwinkle Announces Road Project Designed To Promote Economic Development In The South Suburbs
By mary.paleologos at September 12, 2012 | 3:37 pm | 0 Comment
President Toni Preckwinkle today announced a strategic road project that will promote economic growth in the South Suburbs. The county will use $8-$10 million dollars in Motor Fuel Tax funds to reconstruct and widen Center Street from 159th Street to 171st Street—a crucial truck route in Harvey. In addition to reconstructing the deteriorated pavement, the more...
Cook County Introduces First Agreement Under New Vacant Building Ordinance
By Sebastian James at September 10, 2012 | 3:36 pm | 0 Comment
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today introduced an agreement to the Cook County Board of Commissioners between the County and the Village of Oak Lawn to participate in the County’s Vacant Building Ordinance. The Intergovernmental Agreement is the result of the efforts undertaken by the Bureau of Economic Development, the Department of Building and more...
Resource Fair Offers Veterans One-Stop Access to Aid and Support
By mary.paleologos at September 1, 2012 | 11:57 am | 1 Comments
Cook County’s Veterans Assistance Commission offered one-stop access to a variety of aid and support during a multi-agency Resource Fair on August 29. Forty-five agencies, organizations and government offices set up booths in the auditorium of the county’s Juvenile Temporary Detention Center to provide help with employment, continuing education, housing, crisis more...
Cook County Awarded $175,000 Grant to Upgrade Technology in Medical Examiner’s Office
By mary.paleologos at August 28, 2012 | 3:34 pm | 3 Comments
President Toni Preckwinkle announced today that Cook County has been awarded a $175,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice that will help modernize the computer software system at the Medical Examiner’s Office. “We made a commitment to institute reforms at the ME’s office, and this accomplishment is another milestone toward our goals,” President more...
President Preckwinkle Leads Groundbreaking at Oak Forest Health Center
By Communications Staff at August 22, 2012 | 12:47 pm | 1 Comments
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle together with Dr. Ramanathan Raju, CEO of the Cook County Health and Hospitals System, local elected officials and dozens of community leaders joined to unveil the first phase of the re-development of the E Building on the Oak Forest Campus as part of the planned transition to the Oak Forest Health Center. The construction more...
County Internship Program Enables Engineering Students to Tackle Real-world Projects
By mary.paleologos at August 10, 2012 | 9:25 am | 3 Comments
Bradley University engineering student Brian Heinrich helped design a bike trail during his summer internship at the Cook County Highway Department. Heinrich and six other engineering students spent 10 weeks working mostly out in the field on projects ranging from bridges and road repairs to drainage design and sewer reconstruction. The students met with President more...
President Preckwinkle Tours Ingredion Incorporated
By Communications Staff at August 1, 2012 | 11:26 am | 0 Comment
On Thursday, July 26, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, joined by Commissioner Jeffrey R. Tobolski and Herman Brewer, Bureau Chief, Economic Development for Cook County, toured Ingredion Incorporated (formerly known as Corn Products International, Inc. ), one of the world’s leading ingredient solutions providers and located in Cook County, Illinois for more...
Statement from President Preckwinkle on Rating Agencies’ Response to Cook County’s 2012 Sales Tax Revenue Bonds
By Communications Staff at July 27, 2012 | 9:48 am | 0 Comment
“The Cook County Board approved an ordinance on July 24, 2012 to introduce a new credit structure and capital funding source for County highway projects. The Bonds will be secured by sales tax revenues, as the County and its finance team recognized the value investors would place on such a broad-based tax revenue pledge. The new bond offering is estimated to yield more...
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