Save Cook County Health and Hospitals System
The medical staff of Stroger Hospital is dedicated to our patients. Due to inadequate funding, we cannot respond to all the people who need our services. Ask President Toni Preckwinkle and your Cook County Commissioner to fully fund the health system.
“My name is Mary. In 2005 I lost my health insurance, but kept my job. In 2009, I developed a heart condition. My doctor told me, ‘Mary, you have to go to Stroger Hospital.’ For the past two years, I feel well taken care of at Stroger Hospital.”
“My name is Thomas. When I was told I had lung cancer, I thought my life was over. I was referred to a surgeon at Stroger Hospital, and he answered all my questions very well. I put all my trust in him.
My doctors at Stroger Hospital are very skillful and they care about me. Now I see them as friends.”
Contact Cook County Leadership
If you know your Cook County commissioner, use the directory below to contact them.
If you are a registered voter living in Chicago, fill out and submit the form below. You will be taken to the City’s Board of Elections web site. Click the ‘Public officials’ tab and scroll down to find your commissioner’s name and contact information.
If you are a suburban Cook County resident, find your district and commissioner online. Fill in your address and zip code and then hit the GO button. Scroll down to find your commissioner’s name and contact information.
President
- Toni Preckwinkle
118 N. Clark Street Room 537
Chicago, IL 60602
Phone: (312) 603-6400
Fax: (312) 443-4397
Commissioners
- Earlean Collins, 1st District
- Robert Steele, 2nd District
- Jerry “Iceman” Butler, 3rd District
- William M. Beavers, 4th District
- Deborah Sims, 5th District
- Joan Patricia Murphy, 6th District
- Jesus G. Garcia, 7th District
- Edwin Reyes, 8th District
- Peter N. Silvestri, 9th District
- Bridget Gainer, 10th District
- John P. Daley, 11th District
- John A. Fritchey, 12th District
- Larry Suffredin, 13th District
- Gregg Goslin, 14th District
- Timothy O. Schneider, 15th District
- Jeffrey R. Tobolski, 16th District
- Elizabeth “Liz” Doody Gorman, 17th District
The Cook County Board of Commissioners is the legislative body of county government, and the President is the Board’s Chief Executive Officer. There are eleven additional Cook County governmental offices, run by their own, independently elected officials.
- President of the County Board : The President is the chief executive officer of the the County and presides over the meetings of the County Board and directly supervises departments which provide a variety of direct and support services. The President is elected to a four-year term by the voters of the entire County.
- Board of Commissioners : The Cook County Board of Commissioners is the governing policy board and legislative body of the county. It is comprised of 17 Commissioners, each serving a four-year term and is elected from single member districts. Each district represents approximately 300,000 residents.
- Elected Officials : Eleven independently elected officials run the additional Cook County governmental offices that oversee many functions and services of county government. The County Board has no direct control over these offices, except in the passage of their budgets and approvals of their bond issues, contracts and large expenditures.
[source: CookCountyGov.com]