The Cook County Sheriff is the
sheriff of
Cook County
Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California. More than 40% of all residents of Illinois live within Cook County. As of 20 ...
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Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...
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Cook County Sheriff's Office
The Cook County Sheriff's Office is the principal law enforcement agency that serves Cook County, Illinois. It is the second largest sheriff's department in the United States, with over 6,900 members when at full operational strength. It is hea ...
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Office description
Terms are currently four-years in length.
Officeholders
Recent election results
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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 enter ...
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James E. O'Grady
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Democratic
, , 706,659 (51.12%)
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Richard J. Elrod
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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 humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...
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Michael F. Sheahan
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, , 719,489 (55.41%)
, , James E. O'Grady
, , Republican
, , 369,631 (28.47%)
, Text style="background:#D2B48C , Tommy Brewer
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Harold Washington Party
The Harold Washington Party was founded in Chicago in the late 1980s to represent the interests of the city's African-American population who felt disenchanted with the mainline Democratic Party. The party was created ahead of the 1989 special ...
, Text style="background:#D2B48C , 191,101 (14.72%)
, Text style="background:#008000 , William M. Piechuch, Sr.
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Illinois Solidarity
, Text style="background:#008000 , 18,318 (1.41%)
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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 sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...
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, Text style="background:#D2B48C , William A. Brown
, Text style="background:#D2B48C , Harold Washington Party
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Populist
Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against " the elite". It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment. The term develop ...
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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 s ...
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, , 903,053 (71.11%)
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LeRoy Martin
LeRoy Martin (1929 − August 31, 2013) was an American police officer for the Chicago Police Department. In November 1987, Martin became the third African-American and second permanent to serve as superintendent of the department, following t ...
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, , 366,867 (28.89%)
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2002
, , Michael F. Sheahan
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, , 984,348 (76.88%)
, , Ronald Swick
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, , 296,062 (23.12%)
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2006
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Tom Dart
Thomas J. Dart (born May 22, 1962) is an American attorney, politician, and law enforcement officer serving as the Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois. He previously served as a member of both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly.
Education ...
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, , 942,113 (74.70%)
, , Peter Garza
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, , 319,011 (25.30%)
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2010
, , Tom Dart
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, , 1,041,696 (77.26%)
, , Frederick Collins
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, , 257,682 (19.11%)
, , Marshall P. Lewis
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Green
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combi ...
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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 ...
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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 Unit ...
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, , 1,455,825 (100%)
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2022
File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypo ...
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, , 1,041,525 (74.21%)
, , Lupe Aguirre
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, , 321,252 (22.89%)
, , Brad Sandefur
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Libertarian
, , 40,752 (2.90%)
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References
{{Cook County, Illinois government