Concerned about the harmful impact of a continued state budget stalemate, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is taking proactive steps and requesting that all Cook County offices and agencies implement cost-savings.

“The continued lack of a state budget is jeopardizing crucial services to Cook County residents,” President Preckwinkle said. “Important programs are in peril because we do not have a state budget.

Cook County Board of Commissioners will be presented with a proposal for construction of the much-needed Central Campus Health Center, a new state-of-the-art outpatient facility, at its meeting April 13.

The new facility, which will adjoin the current John H. Stroger Jr., Hospital, will provide patients of the Cook County Health & Hospitals System (CCHHS) with improved health care delivery and consolidate many functions now housed in three buildings that have passed their useful lives.

Proposals aim to roll back decades of failed criminal justice policies

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle today announced her 2016 public safety legislative agenda that will create a fairer and more just criminal and juvenile justice system.

Funds to be invested in affordable housing projects in Ford Heights, Hines, LaGrange, and Park Forest Construction and/or rehabilitation is anticipated this year on four projects to develop affordable housing as a result of loans totaling $9 million from Cook County's HOME Investment Partnership Program.

The projects, whose loans were approved by the County Board today, will yield 311 units of affordable housing. Development of affordable housing is a key initiative of my administration, said Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle.

Cook County Board of Commissioners will be presented with a proposal for construction of the much-needed Central Campus Health Center, a new state-of-the-art outpatient facility, at its meeting April 13.

The new facility, which will adjoin the current John H. Stroger Jr., Hospital, will provide patients of the Cook County Health & Hospitals System (CCHHS) with improved health care delivery and consolidate many functions now housed in three buildings that have passed their useful lives.

Communities seek tax delinquent properties to return them to productive use

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced that many of the 37 taxing districts participating in Cook County’s No Cash Bid Program have started to receive their Certificates of Purchase.

The program is one of the Cook County’s economic development tools that assists municipalities and other taxing bodies acquire tax delinquent property for reuse as private development or for tax-exempt municipal use.

County workers provide expertise and labor to repair, update two homes in Blue Island

National Rebuilding Day brought dozens of Cook County employees who volunteered their time today to help repair two homes in south suburban Blue Island.

It was the County’s 25th consecutive year of participation in the event, also known as “Rebuilding Together.”