Bob Fioretti running as Republican in rematch with Toni Preckwinkle for Cook County board boss.
Former Ald. Bob Fioretti formally launched a Republican bid for Cook County Board president, challenging incumbent Toni Preckwinkle.
Preckwinkle has defended criminal justice reforms she helped oversee by pointing to investments in violence prevention efforts and arguing bail reform was an issue of justice that prevented low-level, nondangerous offenders from being held in jail simply because they could not afford it.Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton march in the 2022 Fourth of July parade in Hyde Park.
Before heading up the County Board, Preckwinkle was a longtime member of the Chicago City Council as the alderman of the 4th Ward. The referendum question requested a 0.025% increase above the current state-mandated Property Tax Extension Limitation Law cap for the district, bringing the limit to 0.076%. The owner of a median-priced home in Cook County pays $36 to $47 in property taxes per year to the district, and passage would raise the property tax by less than $20, according to the district.
Kristin Pink, right, and Becky Collings, ecologists with the Forest Preserves of Cook County, visit restoration sites at Palos Preserves near Palos Park on Sept. 10, 2020.
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