Cook County Issues Preliminary Budget Forecast for FY2015
On June 26, 2014, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle issued a preliminary budget forecast for fiscal…
On June 26, 2014, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle issued a preliminary budget forecast for fiscal…
Last week Cook County Clerk David Orr announced upcoming changes to property tax bills…
Cook County is a home rule government with three primary responsibilities: collecting tax and fee revenue, protecting public health through the administration of a public health and hospital system and ensuring public safety and justice…
On May 28, 2014, The Civic Federation sent this letter to Representitive Elaine Nekritz and the members of the House Personnel and Pensions Committee in advance of a 4 p.m. hearing on…
Chicago and Cook County residents who followed the pension debate at the State of Illinois might be surprised by the fact that proposals for pension reform for the…
New actuarial reports released by the Cook County Pension Fund this month show a slight improvement in the Fund’s…
More Illinois residents than originally projected are signing up for Medicaid as a result of the federal Affordable Care Act, but the long-term impact on the State budget remains unclear. Illinois officials had initially projected that…
A recent report by the Illinois Supreme Court raises significant concerns about Cook County’s pretrial services. The Cook County Pretrial Services Department (PSD) was established in 1990 to address a host of concerns, not the least of…
In 2013 President Preckwinkle formed a blue-ribbon commission of local leaders to develop the Next Century Conservation Plan…