Cook County Assessor

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Cook County Clerk
Incumbent
Fritz Kaegi
since December 2018
Term length 4 years
Inaugural holderJ.L. Jacobs
Formation1932

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

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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. [1] 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. [1] The board had five members, with a rule that no more than four could reside in the same city. [1]

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. [1]

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. [1]

The first election for the office of Cook County Assessor took place in November 1934 for a four-year term. [1] The Board of Assessors was disestablished once the new assessor took office. [1]

Officeholders

AsessorTerm in officePartyNotesCite
J.L. Jacobs1932–1934Appointed in 1932 [1]
John S. Clark1934–1954Elected in 1934, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1950 [1]
Frank Keenan1954–1958Elected in 1954 [1]
John McGuane1958–1958 [1]
P.J. Cullerton 1958–1974 Democratic [1]
Thomas M. Tully1974–1978 [1]
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Thomas C. Hynes 1978–1997 Democratic Elected in 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994; resigned in 1997 [1] [2]
James Houlihan 1997–2010 Democratic Appointed in 1997; elected in 1998, 2002, 2006 [1] [2]
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Joseph Berrios December 6, 2010–December 3, 2018 Democratic Elected in 2010 and 2014; lost reelection in 2018 [1]
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Fritz Kaegi December 3, 2018–present Democratic Elected in 2018 and 2022 [1]

Recent election results

Cook County Assessor general elections
YearWinning candidatePartyVote (pct)OpponentPartyVote (pct)OpponentPartyVote (pct)OpponentPartyVote (pct)
1986 [3] Thomas C. Hynes Democratic 969,500 (357,758%)Le Roy M. Graham Republican 357,758 (26.95%)
1990 [4] Thomas C. HynesDemocratic775,493 (62.05%)Ronald BeanRepublican333,325 (26.67%)Donald Pamon Harold Washington Party 141,015 (11.28%)
1994 Thomas C. HynesDemocraticSandra C. Wilson-MurielRepublicanDonald PamonHarold Washington PartyLoretha Weisinger Populist
1998 [5] James Houlihan Democratic926,646 (75.58%)Jose Carlos GomezRepublican260,245 (21.23%)Philip MorrisJustice Party39,111 (3.19%)
2002 [6] [7] James HoulihanDemocratic954,774 (75.78%)James P. PieczonkaRepublican305,176 (24.22%)
2006 [8] James HoulihanDemocratic1,010,400 (80.41%)Ralph ConnerRepublican246,186 (19.59%)
2010 [9] Joseph Berrios Democratic648,053 (48.03%) Forrest Claypool Independent 427,842 (31.71%)Sharon Strobeck-EckersallRepublican237,955 (17.64%)
2014 [10] Joseph BerriosDemocratic960,435 (100%)
2018 [11] Fritz Kaegi Democratic1,272,651 (76.19%)Joseph PagliaRepublican397,741 (23.81%)
2022 [12] Fritz KaegiDemocratic1,063,188 (82.31%)Nico Tsatsoulis Libertarian 228,425 (17.69%)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Office History | Cook County Assessor's Office". www.cookcountyassessor.com. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Kass, John (March 10, 1997). "SOME FEEL SLIGHTED IN HYNES' RESIGNATION". chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ "OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1986" (PDF). voterinfo.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 3, 2008.
  4. ↑ "OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1990" (PDF). voterinfo.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 3, 2008.
  5. ↑ "OFFICIAL FINAL RESULTS GENERAL ELECTION COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1998" (PDF). results.cookcountyclerkil.gov.
  6. ↑ "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." (PDF). Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  7. ↑ "SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY RESULTS". voterinfonet.com. Cook County Clerk. Archived from the original on February 9, 2005.
  8. ↑ "Cook County and the City of Chicago Combined Summary Report November 2006 General Election Tuesday, November 7th, 2006" (PDF). Cook County Clerk's Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 22, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Cook County General Election November 2, 2010 Combined Summary Report" (PDF). Cook County Clerk's Office. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  10. ↑ "General Election Cook County and The City of Chicago Tuesday, November 4, 2014 Combined Summary" (PDF). Cook County Clerk's Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 28, 2022. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Cook County and The City of Chicago General Election November 6, 2018 Combined Summary" (PDF). Cook County Clerk's Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
  12. ↑ "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" (PDF). www.cookcountyclerkil.gov. Cook County Clerk. 2022. Retrieved December 6, 2022.
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