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22 unusual facts about Cook County


Angel de la Torre

He would teach at Tamarisk Country Club in Palm Springs in the winter months and at Glenview Naval Air Station in Glenview, Illinois in the summer.

Candace Kroslak

Candace Kaye Kroslak (born Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, July 22, 1978) is an American actress of Slovak descent, probably best known for her role as Lindy Maddock in the Swedish-American soap opera Ocean Ave.

Duluth model

A 2005 study led by Larry Bennett, a professor of social work at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an expert on batterer intervention programs, found that of the 30 batterer intervention programs in Cook County, Illinois, 15 percent of batterers who completed the programs were rearrested for domestic violence, compared with 37 percent of those who dropped out of the programs.

Edward E. Wilson

Moving to Chicago, he filled the post of assistant state attorney for Cook County, Illinois, from 1912 until his retirement in 1947.

Eichorst Island

Eichorst Island was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Marvin H. (Ike) Eichorst of Glenview, Illinois, licensed operator of amateur radio station W9RUK who handled radio traffic between points in the United States and Palmer Station during the period 1964-1972.

Frankie Laine

His actual Cook County, Ill, birth Certificate, No. 14436, was already Americanized at the time of his birth, with his name written as "Frank Lovecchio," his mother as "Anna Salerno," and his father as "John Lovecchio," with the "V" lower case in each instance, except in the "Reported by" section with "John Lo Vecchio " written in.

Harold Washington Party

It nominated candidates for mayor and several other offices in Cook County before most of these became officially nonpartisan in the mid 1990s.

Herminie Templeton Kavanagh

Her second husband, Marcus Kavanagh (1859–1937), was a Cook County judge in Chicago, Illinois from 1898 to 1935.

Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund

Since 1941, IMRF has provided employees of local governments and school districts in Illinois (with the exception of the City of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois) with a sound and efficient system for the payment of retirement, disability, and death benefits.

Jeff Fort

Fort spent time at Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center and at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles, where he met Eugene "Bull" Hairston.

John Peter Barnes

He was a first assistant county attorney of Cook County, Illinois from 1913 to 1914, thereafter returning to his private practice until 1931.

Kohl McCormick Early Childhood Teaching Awards

The awards have been restricted to teachers in Cook County in Illinois, but beginning in 2008, the honor will be extended to DuPage County as well.

Lake Township, Illinois

Lake Township, Cook County, Illinois, also known as the Town of Lake, annexed to Chicago in 1889

Lutsen, Minnesota

Lutsen is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lutsen Township, Cook County, Minnesota, United States.

Robert Eisner

Together, they had two daughters, Emily is a lawyer with the Cook County, Illinois Public Defender's Office, while Mary is the legislative director for Kent Conrad.

Rosemary Mulligan

In the fall of 2009 Mulligan announced her intention to run for Republican Committeeman of Maine Township Maine Township, Cook County, Illinois against incumbent Mark Thompson.

Schroeder, Minnesota

Schroeder is an unincorporated community in Schroeder Township, Cook County, Minnesota, United States.

Taconite Harbor, Minnesota

Taconite Harbor is an unincorporated community in Schroeder Township, Cook County, Minnesota, United States.

Tamara Sher

Tamara Goldman Sher is a native of Chicago's suburbs who lives with her husband and two daughters in suburban Cook county.

Tofte, Minnesota

Tofte is an unincorporated community in Tofte Township, Cook County, Minnesota, United States.

United States presidential election in Illinois, 2000

Gore's key to victory was Cook County, home of Chicago, by far the most populous county in the state and one of the most populated counties in the nation.

William Harrison Holly

He was an assistant state's attorney of Cook County, Illinois from 1914 to 1916, thereafter returning to private practice in Chicago until 1933.


Chicago Temple Building

The temple is located at the southeast corner of Clark and Washington Street across from the Richard J. Daley Center which houses offices for the offices for the city of Chicago and Cook County courts and the Chicago Picasso.

Codeball

Dr. Code developed the game for his friend, Anton Cermak, at that time head of the Cook County Board, who sought an inexpensive outdoor game suited to large playgrounds.

Courthouse Place

The structure housed the Cook County Criminal Courts for 35 years, and was the site of many legendary trials, including the Leopold and Loeb murder case and the Black Sox Scandal.

Grand Marais Light

Grand Marais Light is located on the outer end of a breakwater on the shore of Lake Superior in the city of Grand Marais in Cook County, Minnesota, USA.

Harry Osterman

Osterman began his career as an aide to 48th ward Alderman Mary Ann Smith, then he worked as a staff liaison to the Chicago Police Department and the Cook County State's Attorney’s Office.

Illinois wiretapping law

In 2010, the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit ACLU v. Alvarez against the State's Attorney of Cook County, Anita Alvarez, to block prosecution of ACLU staff for recording police officers performing their duties in public places, one of the group's long-standing monitoring missions.

Indian Head Park, Illinois

Indian Head Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, slightly north of the intersection of Interstate 294 and Interstate 55.

John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County

The John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, formerly Cook County Hospital is a public urban teaching hospital in Chicago that provides primary, specialty and tertiary healthcare services to the five million residents of Cook County, Illinois.

Levon Kemalyan

:Spouse — On March 6, 1941, Levin married Roselle Arax Bezazian (1909–2008) in Cook County, Illinois, a pianist who graduated from Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Round Barns in Illinois Thematic Resources

The Wheeler-Magnus Round Barn is the only round barn listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in Cook County.

WGLI

Primarily serving the reservation and Keweenaw Peninsula at 100,000 watts, WGLI's signal can also be picked up across Lake Superior in Cook County, Minnesota and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Zak Kustok

This necessitated a request for court ordered emergency relief in the Cook County Circuit Court.