We had become good friends during my stay at Cook County Hospital.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

The Chicago Tribune, which coined the term, includes the city of Chicago, the rest of Cook County, eight nearby Illinois counties: Lake, McHenry, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Grundy, Will and Kankakee, and three counties in Indiana: Lake, Porter and LaPorte.

The Illinois Department of Tourism defines Chicagoland as Cook County without the city of Chicago, and only Lake, DuPage, Kane and Will counties.

The wealth of greenspace afforded by Chicago's parks is further augmented by the Cook County Forest Preserves, a network of open spaces containing forest, prairie, wetland, streams, and lakes that are set aside as natural areas which lie along the city's periphery, home to both the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe and the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield.

Discovery Channel films two shows in Chicago: Cook County Jail and the Chicago version of Cash Cab.

In 1883 Parker left Massachusetts to become Principal of the Cook County Normal School in Chicago, a school that also served to train teachers in Parker ’ s methods.

Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Christian County, Kentucky, the last child of ten of Jane ( née Cook ) and Samuel Emory Davis.

In 1783, after the war, he married Jane Cook ( also born in Christian County, in 1759 to William Cook and his wife Sarah Simpson ).

* Soldal v. Cook County ( 1992 )

* February 22 – In Chicago's Democratic primary, Mayor Martin H. Kennelly loses to the head of the Cook County Democratic Party, Richard J. Daley, 364, 839 to 264, 77.

Daley had two bases of power, serving as a Committeeman and Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee from 1953, and as mayor of Chicago from 1955.

Prior to his mother's death, Daley had won the Democratic nomination for Cook County sheriff.

Daley suffered his only political defeat in 1946, when he lost a bid to become Cook County sheriff.

Daley then made a successful run for Cook County Clerk and held that position prior to being elected Chicago's mayor.

Another son, John P. Daley, is a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.

* The Richard J. Daley Center ( originally, the Cook County Civic Center ) is a 32-floor office building completed in 1965 and renamed for the mayor after his death.

Prior to serving as mayor, Daley served in the Illinois Senate and then as the Cook County State's Attorney.

Mayor Daley is a brother of William M. Daley, former White House Chief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton ; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners who also serves as its chairman of the County Board's Finance Committee ; and Micheal Daley, an attorney with Daley & George, a law firm founded by their father Richard J. Daley, that specializes in zoning law and is often hired by developers to help get zoning changes from City Hall.

Daley ran for Cook County State's Attorney, serving from 1981 to 1989.

In 1921 Cook resigned from the federal parliament, and was appointed Australian High Commissioner in London.

Cook resigned from Parliament in 1921 and was appointed Australian High Commissioner in London, where he served until 1927.

Manuel Torres, then a member of the Democratic machine and Cook County Commissioner also entered the race for 26th ward Alderman.

Four candidates announced their intention to run in the 1992 Democratic primary – Gutiérrez, Alderman Dick Mell of the 33rd ward, then Cook County Board of Appeals Commissioner Joseph Berrios, and Juan Soliz, former Alderman of 25th ward.

Roberto Maldonado, 26th ward alderman and former Cook County Commissioner, is Gutiérrez ' former brother-in-law.

This expert panel who gave both written and oral evidence consisted of Nick Hardwick ( Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons ), Paul Cook ( G4S children's services ), Eric Baskind ( British Self Defence Governing Body, Liverpool John Moores University ), Malcolm Stevens ( JusticeCare Solutions ), Laura Janes ( Howard League for Penal Reform ), John Drew ( Youth Justice Board for England and Wales ), Sue Berelowitz ( Office of the Children's Commissioner ) and Carolyne Willow ( CRAE ).

* at Rarotonga since the 1888 establishment of the British protectorate over the Cook Islands ; the third and last incumbent stayed on as first Resident Commissioner since 1901, at the incorporation in the British Western Pacific Territories ( under a single High Commissioner, till its 1976 dissolution, in Suva or Honoria ), until the abolition of the post at the 1965 self-government grant as territory in free association with New Zealand, having its own cabinet ( still under the British Crown, which after the 1976 appoints a special King's / Queens Representative as well as a High Commissioner ).

Perhaps the most prominent of these organizations is Woodlawn East Community And Neighbors Inc. ( WECAN ) founded by Mattie C. Butler, a 40-year Woodlawn resident and sister of Hall of Fame R & B singer / current Cook County Commissioner Jerry Butler.

He serves as a Commissioner for Cook County, Illinois, having first been elected in 1985.

Butler continues to perform while serving as a Cook County Board Commissioner since the 1980s.

As Cook County Commissioner, Butler voted to uphold an historic 2008 Cook County sales tax increase, which remains the highest in the nation.

; Cook County Commissioner

The Queen's Representative serves as the viceroy of the Cook Islands and the Governor-General of New Zealand, represented by the State Services Commissioner, represents the Queen in Niue, carrying out all the monarch's constitutional and ceremonial duties of state on her behalf.

He is currently New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands.

In February 2011, the government announced that Carter would be the next High Commissioner to the Cook Islands.

In February 2008, Donnelly was appointed as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands, and Dail Jones was sworn in to replace him as a list MP on 15 February 2008.

Matlak lost the February 2, 2010 Democratic Primary Election for Commissioner of the 12th District of the Cook County Board ">

Cook County Normal School was founded in 1867, largely through the initiative of John F. Eberhart, the Commissioner of Schools for Cook County.

** Cook County Commissioner ( Finance Chairman )

* Kurt Meyer ( High Commissioner ), representative of New Zealand in the Cook Islands, 2001 – 2005