Nearly 60 percent of election contests will be uncontested next Tuesday in suburban Cook County, Clerk David Orr announced Monday. In local races for offices including village trustee, school board member and park district commissioner, only 287 of 716 contests have more candidates than openings. Fifty-five seats are altogether without a candidate.

As part of an ongoing commitment to transparency and helping residents better understand office operations, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J.

By March 1, 2011, all businesses in unicorporated Cook County will be required to hold a General Business License, or GBL. The purpose of the GBL is to ensure businesses operating in Unincorporated Cook County, are in compliance with public health and public safety standards, as well as with all other County ordinances. This will prevent illegal businesses from negatively influencing legitimate commerce and protect consumers from bad business practices. Cook County Government has made applying and paying for the license as easy as possible, in this digital world.

Cook County Commissioner Edwin Reyes and the Cook County Commission on Women's Issues join forces on Tuesday March, 29th to sponsor Hurting in Silence, Breaking the Barrier, an anti-bullying seminar. The event, which runs from 1 pm to 3 pm, will take place at the Mirta Ramirez Computer Science Charter School, 1711 N. California Avenue in Chicago. Special guest speakers at the event will be Elizardi Castro, a New York based attorney, Hilda Ramos, a local licensed Clinical Social Worker, and Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart. For more information, call Lourdes S.

From Medical News Today, March 21, 2011: The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is awarding researchers at the Cook County Health & Hospitals System and Rush University Medical Center a $2 million grant to continue a successful program aimed at preventing healthcare-associated infections, antibiotic resistance, and other adverse events associated with healthcare. The project, dubbed the Chicago Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention Epicenter (CARPE), is one of only five CDC Prevention Epicenters in the country.

On Monday, March 28th at 6:30 PM at the Copernicus Center located at 5216 West Lawrence Avenue, Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Michael M.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Finance Chairman John Daley and Cook County Board Commissioner Deborah Sims on Monday delivered on a promise to help 13 municipalities with targeted economic development projects through the Cook County No Cash Bid Program. The basic concept of the program is to assist municipalities and other taxing bodies with the purchase of tax delinquent properties for reuse as private development. Preckwinkle said the program is part of a larger effort on the part of the County to promote economic development. “This is good news for Cook County communities

Seven young men charged with non-violent crimes who were just a few credit hours away from receiving their high school diplomas will receive them today after finishing course work online at the Cook County Jail, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced. A graduation ceremony is set for 3:00 p.m. today (March 18, 2011) in the Jury Assembly Room at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building, 2600 S. California Ave, 3rd floor. The virtual high school program began in 2009, and has since graduated 12 students with diplomas from their local schools.

On December 6, 2010 Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle was sworn into office. A day later, she released her transition report, with 37 initiatives for transforming Cook County. Of these 37, we committed to making significant progress on 29 of them in our first 100 days. The report included ideas from residents and was guided by 80 civic leaders. In our transition plan, we committed to lead by example by regularly reporting on our progress. In this document, we have listed each of our commitments, goals and progress on these commitments.