Quotes about Cook County

Mike Quigley

I spent 10 years fighting for reform in Cook County, and I didn't change my DNA when I got to Washington.

Chicago Tribune

The World's Richest Cop.

In 1950 the Democrats had nominated Daniel A. Gilbert, a captain of the Chicago police force, for Cook County sheriff. Gilbert had been the target of corruption investigations of the Kefauver committee of the U.S. Senate. In an editorial Gilbert was referred to as:

Mike Quigley

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

Richard J. Daley

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

Richard M. Daley

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

Lyndon B. Johnson

He [Douglas] would understand it a little better if there were a few oil wells in Cook County .

Paul Douglas of Illinois was a world famous economist before he was elected to the Senate. He was a constant opponent of a tax loophole known as the "oil depletion allowance." Lyndon Johnson was a proponent of the allowance:. the home county of Chicago

Lori Lightfoot

I am not tied to the broken political machine, and I did not aspire to climb the ranks of the Cook County Democratic Party to be the party boss.

Lori Lightfoot

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.

Brad Schneider

Personally, I'm incredibly lucky to represent the 10th district of Illinois, which stretches from the edges of Cook county all the way north along Lake Michigan to the borders of Wisconsin. From the lake all the way west to Fox Lake. It's an incredible district.

Cook County Quotes