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Cook County’s Chief Information Officer Named CIO of the Year

Cook County Chief Information Officer Simona Rollinson today was named Nonprofit/Government Chief Information Officer of the Year at the annual ORBIE Awards held in partnership with the CIO…

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Technology

Cook County Board to Consider Further Technology Consolidation

Resolution would assess whether efficiencies, eliminating duplicative functions could be realized

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Technology

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