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Cook County Experts Address Public Health Implications of Gun Violence

Today, Cook County Board of Commissioners President Toni Preckwinkle was joined by leading clinical experts to discuss gun violence as a public health issue in Cook County. 

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Community, Health, Public Safety and Jails, Technology

New Telecom Contract to Yield Savings, Efficiencies

Cook County today added another $200,000-plus in telecommunications (telecom) savings as a result of initiatives undertaken by President Toni Preckwinkle’s Bureau of Technology (BOT) that have already yielded telecom spending cuts of more than a…

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Budget and Financial, Technology

Cook County Releases Suburban Birth and Death Statistics from 2000 to 2014

The Cook County Department of Public Health has released a comprehensive data set of births and deaths in suburban Cook County from 2000 to 2014 through the County’s data portal.

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Health, Open Data and Transparency, Technology

Cook County Board of Review Earns National Achievement Award for Information Technology

Chicago – The Cook County Board of Review, the largest assessment appeal board in the US, adjudicating over 400,000 assessment appeals annually has been recognized with an Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties (NACo).

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Technology

Preckwinkle Announces Cook County's New Mapping System

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today announced that Cook County is upgrading its mapping system to better improve efficiency and services to residents and facilitate graphic representations of what would otherwise be available only…

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