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Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle Introduces Resolution Urging the Illinois General Assembly to End the Automatic Transfer of Children to Adult Court

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today introduced a resolution to the County Board urging the Illinois General Assembly to pass HB172.

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Public Safety and Jails

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle Outlines Second Term Agenda at the City Club of Chicago

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle outlined her second term agenda during a speech today at the City Club of Chicago. “In the last four years, we have become a model of effectiveness: setting goals and working hard and working together to
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Economic Development, Health, Public Safety and Jails

Cook County Crosses Million-Pound Threshold In Effort to Rid Itself of Old Paper

Cook County has recycled more than one million pounds of old documents, reports and miscellaneous paperwork in the last year-and-a-half, confronting a decades-old problem of records storage as well as generating savings and revenue for the County…

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Environmental

Cook County Reopens Busy Oak Lawn Intersection to Full Use

The intersection of Central Avenue and Southwest Highway in Oak Lawn has been returned to full use as improvements underwritten by Cook County largely wrapped up this week.

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Building and Construction

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle Announces Search for New Public Defender

Preckwinkle Thanks Outgoing Public Defender Abishi Cunningham for his Years of Service

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Public Safety and Jails