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Cook County Assessor

{{short description|County clerk of Cook County, Illinois}}

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The Cook County Assessor is the assessor and county government officer of Cook County, Illinois.

Office description

Before the creation of the position of Cook County Assessor in 1932, the Cook County Board of Assessors completed assessments in Cook County.{{cite web |title=Office History {{!}} Cook County Assessor's Office |url=https://www.cookcountyassessor.com/office-history |website=www.cookcountyassessor.com |accessdate=5 November 2020}} The Board of Assessors had been created after a law passed by the Illinois General Assembly on February 25, 1898 created a Board of Assessors in counties with 125,000 or more inhabitants. The board had five members, with a rule that no more than four could reside in the same city.

After an apparent fourteen-month delay in determining the 1931 assessment, it was decided that the structure of assessment in Cook County, with a five-member board of assessors and three-member Cook County Board of Review, needed to be restructured.

On February 13, 1932, the Illinois General Assembly passed a law that in counties of 250,000 or more, the governor and the presidents of those counties' board of commissioners would appoint an Assessor to hold office until either the first Monday in December 1932, or until a successor could otherwise be elected.

The first election for the office of Cook County Assessor took place in November 1934 for a four-year term. The Board of Assessors was disestablished once the new assessor took office.

Officeholders

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! J.L. Jacobs

| 1932–1934

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| Appointed in 1932

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! John S. Clark

| 1934–1954

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| Elected in 1934, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1950

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! Frank Keenan

| 1954–1958

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| Elected in 1954

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! John McGuane

| 1958–1958

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! P.J. Cullerton

| 1958–1974

| Democratic

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! Thomas M. Tully

| 1974–1978

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! Thomas C. Hynes

| 1978–1997

| Democratic

| Elected in 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994; resigned in 1997

| {{cite web |last1=Kass |first1=John |title=SOME FEEL SLIGHTED IN HYNES' RESIGNATION |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-03-10-9703100175-story.html |website=chicagotribune.com |publisher=Chicago Tribune |accessdate=13 October 2020 |date=10 March 1997}}

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! James Houlihan

| 1997–2010

| Democratic

| Appointed in 1997; elected in 1998, 2002, 2006

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! scope="row" |Joseph Berrios

| December 6, 2010–December 3, 2018

| Democratic

| Elected in 2010 and 2014; lost reelection in 2018

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| December 3, 2018–present

| Democratic

| Elected in 2018 and 2022

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Recent election results

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| colspan=16 style="text-align:center;" |Cook County Assessor general elections

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|1986{{cite web |title=OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1986 |url=http://www.voterinfonet.com/results/archive/1986NovCombinedSummary.pdf |website=voterinfo.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003205005/http://www.voterinfonet.com/results/archive/1986NovCombinedSummary.pdf |archivedate=3 October 2008}}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Thomas C. Hynes

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | 969,500 (357,758%)

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Le Roy M. Graham

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|{{party shading/Republican}} | 357,758 (26.95%)

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|1990{{cite web |title=OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1990 |url=http://www.voterinfonet.com/results/archive/1990NovCombinedSummary.pdf |website=voterinfo.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003205145/http://www.voterinfonet.com/results/archive/1990NovCombinedSummary.pdf |archivedate=3 October 2008}}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Thomas C. Hynes

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | 775,493 (62.05%)

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Ronald Bean

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|{{party shading/Republican}} | 333,325 (26.67%)

|Text style="background:#D2B48C | Donald Pamon

|Text style="background:#D2B48C | Harold Washington Party

|Text style="background:#D2B48C | 141,015 (11.28%)

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|1994

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Thomas C. Hynes

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

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|{{party shading/Republican}} | Sandra C. Wilson-Muriel

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

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|Text style="background:#D2B48C | Donald Pamon

|Text style="background:#D2B48C | Harold Washington Party

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| Loretha Weisinger

| Populist

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|1998{{cite web |title=OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1998 |url=https://results.cookcountyclerkil.gov/electionresults/110398/1998NovemberCombinedSUMMARY.pdf |website=results.cookcountyclerkil.gov }}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | James Houlihan

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | 926,646 (75.58%)

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Jose Carlos Gomez

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|{{party shading/Republican}} | 260,245 (21.23%)

| Philip Morris

| Justice Party

| 39,111 (3.19%)

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|2002{{cite web |title=TABULATED STATEMENT OF THE RETURNS AND PROCLAMATION OF THE RESULTS OF THE CANVASS OF THE ELECTION RETURNS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION HELD IN EACH OF THE PRECINCTS IN ALL THE WARDS IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2002 A.D. |url=https://app.chicagoelections.com/documents/proclamations/Proc-2002-11-05.pdf |publisher=Chicago Board of Election Commissioners |accessdate=18 June 2020}}{{cite web |title=SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY RESULTS |url=http://www.voterinfonet.com/results/11502results/ |website=voterinfonet.com |publisher=Cook County Clerk |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050209124209/http://www.voterinfonet.com/results/11502results/ |archivedate=9 February 2005 |url-status=dead}}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | James Houlihan

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | 954,774 (75.78%)

|{{party shading/Republican}} | James P. Pieczonka

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|{{party shading/Republican}} | 305,176 (24.22%)

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|2006{{cite web |title=Cook County and the City of Chicago Combined Summary Report November 2006 General Election Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 |url=https://www.cookcountyclerk.com/sites/default/files/2006NovemberCombinedSUMMARY.pdf |publisher=Cook County Clerk's Office |accessdate=16 March 2020 |archive-date=September 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922154748/https://www.cookcountyclerkil.gov/sites/default/files/2006NovemberCombinedSUMMARY.pdf |url-status=dead }}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | James Houlihan

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,010,400 (80.41%)

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Ralph Conner

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|{{party shading/Republican}} | 246,186 (19.59%)

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|2010{{cite web |title=Cook County General Election November 2, 2010 Combined Summary Report |url=https://www.cookcountyclerk.com/sites/default/files/Combined_Summary_Report_110210.pdf |publisher=Cook County Clerk's Office |accessdate=16 March 2020}}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Joseph Berrios

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | 648,053 (48.03%)

|{{party shading/Independent}} | Forrest Claypool

|{{party shading/Independent}} | Independent

|{{party shading/Independent}} | 427,842 (31.71%)

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Sharon Strobeck-Eckersall

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|{{party shading/Republican}} | 237,955 (17.64%)

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|2014{{cite web |title=General Election Cook County and The City of Chicago Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Combined Summary |url=https://www.cookcountyclerk.com/sites/default/files/CombinedSummaryReport110414%20%281%29.pdf |publisher=Cook County Clerk's Office |accessdate=16 March 2020 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128082518/https://www.cookcountyclerkil.gov/sites/default/files/CombinedSummaryReport110414%20(1).pdf |url-status=dead }}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Joseph Berrios

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | 960,435 (100%)

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|2018{{Cite web |title=Cook County and The City of Chicago General Election November 6, 2018 Combined Summary |url=https://www.cookcountyclerk.com/sites/default/files/CombinedSummary.pdf |access-date=March 9, 2020 |publisher=Cook County Clerk's Office |archive-date=July 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210708233020/https://www.cookcountyclerkil.gov/sites/default/files/CombinedSummary.pdf |url-status=dead }}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Fritz Kaegi

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | 1,272,651 (76.19%)

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Joseph Paglia

|{{party shading/Republican}} | Republican

|{{party shading/Republican}} | 397,741 (23.81%)

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|2022{{cite web |title=Tabulated Statement of the Returns and Proclamation of the Results of the Canvass of the Election Returns for the November 8, 2022 Gubernatorial General Election Held in Each of the Precincts in Cook County, Illinois Including the City of Chicago |url=https://www.cookcountyclerkil.gov/sites/default/files/pdfs/November%208%2C%202022%20Proclamation%20Cook%20and%20Chicago.pdf |website=www.cookcountyclerkil.gov |publisher=Cook County Clerk |access-date=6 December 2022 |date=2022}}

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |Fritz Kaegi

|{{party shading/Democratic}} | Democratic

|{{party shading/Democratic}} |1,063,188 (82.31%)

|{{party shading/Libertarian}} | Nico Tsatsoulis

|{{party shading/Libertarian}} | Libertarian

|{{party shading/Libertarian}} |228,425 (17.69%)

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References

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