The President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is the chief executive of county government in Cook County, Illinois. They are the head of the

Cook County Board of Commissioners The Cook County Board of Commissioners is a legislative body made up of 17 commissioners who are elected by district, and a president who is elected county-wide, all for four-year terms. Cook County, which includes the City of Chicago, is the Uni ...

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1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

, , George Dunne , , Democratic , , 808,126 (60.61%) , , Joseph D. Matthewson , , Republican , , 525,288 (39.39%) , , , , , , , - ,

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

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Richard J. Phelan Richard J. Phelan is a politician from the U.S. state of Illinois. He was special counsel to the House Ethics Committee investigating Speaker Jim Wright in the late 1980s. Phelan was then elected as Cook County Board President from 1990 to 1994. ...

, , Democratic , , 714,638 (55.65%) , , Aldo DeAngelis , , Republican , , 405,771 (31.60%) , Text style="background:#D2B48C , Barbara J. Norman , Text style="background:#D2B48C , Harold Washington Party , Text style="background:#D2B48C , 163,817 (12.76%) , , , , - ,

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

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John H. Stroger, Jr. John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

, , Democratic , , , , Joe Morris , , Republican , , , Text style="background:#D2B48C , Aloysius Majerczyk , Text style="background:#D2B48C , Harold Washington Party , Text style="background:#D2B48C , , Jerome Carter , Populist , , - ,

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

, , John H. Stroger, Jr. , , Democratic , , 834,972 (63.49%) , ,

Aurelia Marie Pucinski Aurelia Marie Pucinski (born April 29, 1947) is a judge on the Illinois Appellate Court for the First District. She previously served as a trial judge and clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Her second term expires in 2030. Early life Bor ...

, , Republican , , 480,191 (36.61%) , , , , , , , - ,

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

, , John H. Stroger, Jr. , , Democratic , , 901,679 (68.73%) , , Christopher A. Bullock , , Republican , , 410,155 (31.27%) , , , , , , , - ,

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

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Todd H. Stroger Todd H. Stroger (born January 14, 1963) is the former president of the Cook County, Illinois Board and a former alderman for the 8th Ward in Chicago. Stroger is a member of the Democratic Party. In 2001, he was appointed to the Chicago City Co ...

, , Democratic , , 690,945 (53.68%) , , Tony Peraica , , Republican , , 596,212 (46.32%) , , , , , , , - ,

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

, , Toni Preckwinkle , , Democratic , , 939,056 (69.54%) , ,

Roger A. Keats Roger A. Keats (born August 12, 1948) is an American politician and businessman. Keats was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the United States Army from 1972 to 1974. He received his bachelor's degree from University of Michigan. He worked in ...

, , Republican , , 357,070 (26.44%) , , Thomas Tresser , , Green , , 54,273 (4.02%) , , , , - ,

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

, , Toni Preckwinkle , , Democratic , , 1,072,886 (100%) , , , , , , , , , , - ,

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

, , Toni Preckwinkle , , Democratic , , 1,355,407 (96.11%) , ''Others'' , Write-ins , 54,917 (3.89%) , , , , , , , - ,

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...

, , Toni Preckwinkle , , Democratic , , 967,062 (68.54%) , , Bob Fioretti , , Republican , , 399,339 (28.30%) , , Thea Tsatsos , ,

Libertarian Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's e ...

, , 44,615 (3.16%) , , ,

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