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The positions are unpaid, with responsibilities that include voter registration, community forums, election materials, and election operations. [1] In Chicago, the committeepeople are responsible for producing smooth political processes during the elections in their wards, which includes attempting to produce high voter turnout.
Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez’s bid for reelection is being helped by political contributions from dozens of her government employees, many of whom donated within months of ...
Shakman filed a class action suit against the Democratic Organization of Cook County, claiming that political patronage employment violated the First Amendment and the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Shakman asserted that the defendants, including a number of government employees and ...
Shakman, then an attorney, ran for a public position outside of the Cook County Democratic Party and lost. He was distressed at the level of support the incumbent Democrats received from public employees and was, along with other plaintiffs, shocked to learn that this was often mandatory support required by the politicians as a part of the ...
In 1969, attorney Michael Shakman, then 27, went to court to tear down Chicago’s patronage system, a bulwark of Democratic machine politics that long poisoned city and state governance. The ...
Article I of the by-laws of the Cook County Democratic Party states that the party exists to "attract, endorse, and support qualified Democratic candidates for office, to develop positions on issues of public importance, to advance the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party, and to seek to improve the lives of the people of Cook County through effective, efficient, and fair government."
Richard Jones Hamilton, First Circuit Court Clerk of Cook County, 1831–1841. On January 1, 1964, the circuit courts of Cook County were unified. [1] Before this, there were more than 200 separate courts in Cook County. [1] In its unified form, it now had a single, popularly elected, clerk of court. [1]
Simultaneously ex officio Cook County Coroner [5] Timothy Bradley 1870–1872 [8] Charles Kern: 1872–1878 Democratic [8] John Hoffman: 1878–1880 Republican [8] [9] Orrin L. Mann: 1880–1882 Republican: Elected in 1880 [10] Seth Hanchett: 1882–1886 Republican [11] [12] Canute R. Matson: 1886–1890 Republican [8] James H. Gilbert: 1890 ...