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- Bellwood Vlg
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- Berwyn City
- Bloom Twp
- Blue Island City
- Bremen Twp
- Bridgeview Vlg
- Broadview Vlg
- Brookfield Vlg
- Burbank City
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- Calumet City
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- Chicago City
- Chicago Heights City
- Chicago Ridge Vlg
- Cicero Town
- Country Club Hills City
- Countryside City
- Crestwood Vlg
- Des Plaines City
- Dixmoor Vlg
- Dolton Vlg
- East Hazel Crest Vlg
- Elk Grove Twp
- Elk Grove Vlg
- Elmwood Park Vlg
- Evergreen Park Vlg
- Flossmoor Vlg
- Ford Heights Vlg
- Forest Park Vlg
- Forest View Vlg
- Franklin Park Vlg
- Glencoe Vlg
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- Harvey City
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- Hillside Vlg
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- Oak Forest City
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- Palos Hills City
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- Historic Sites & Districts
- Alta Vista Terrace
- Barrington
- Bryn Mawr Avenue
- Buena Park
- East Ravenswood
- Evanston Lakeshore
- Evanston Ridge
- Frank Lloyd Wright-Prairie School
- Gold Coast
- Gunderson
- Hyde Park-Kenwood
- Jeffery--Cyril
- La Grange Village
- Lakeview
- Lakewood Balmoral
- Logan Square Boulevards
- Loop Retail
- Maxwell Street
- Meekerville
- Michigan-Wacker
- North Mayfair Bungalow
- North Wells Street
- Northeast Evanston
- Norwood Park Historical District
- Oakton
- Old Town Triangle
- Ouilmette North
- Pacesetter Gardens
- Pilsen
- Pine Grove District
- Prairie Avenue
- Printing House Row
- Pullman
- Raymond M. Hilliard Center
- Ridgeland-Oak Park
- River Forest
- Riverside Landscape Architecture
- Rogers Park Manor Bungalow
- Schoenhofen Brewery
- Schorsch Irving Park Gardens
- Sheffield
- Sheridan Park
- South Loop Printing House District
- South Park Manor
- Tri-Taylor
- Uptown Square
- Villa
- Washington Square
- Wicker Park
- Wrightwood Bungalow
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The Cook County Government Building is located at 118 North Clark Street, Chicago IL, 60602; 312-603-5500.
Beginnings [1]
Cook County was organized by act of the General Assembly, January 15, 1831, in the "winter of the deep snow, "and included the present counties of Lake, Dupage, Cook, and Will.
The county was named in honor of Daniel P. Cook, formerly Illinois representative in Congress. The little town of Chicago, not yet incorporated, was made the county seat. In June of the same year the Legislature granted the new county twenty-four canal lots containing land which had been given to Illinois by the United States to encourage the construction of a canal to connect the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. Part of these lots were sold to defray the current expenses of the new county, but eight lots were set aside for a public square to be always used for government buildings. This square is now the site of the Court House and City Hall and was originally a gift to the new county from Illinois. On this block of land was erected the first public structure, called the "Estray Pen," a small wooden, roofless enclosure, the first "pound." See Governmental History of Chicago, by Hugo S. Grosser.
In the autumn of 1835 the first court house was built on the Clark and Randolph Street corner of this public square. It was a small one-story brick building with a basement in which were the county offices, while the court room, seating two hundred persons, occupied the floor above. That insignificant brick building, contrasted with the present five-million-dollar court house on the same site, is a symbol of the growth of Cook County in eight decades.
- Childs, Mary Louise, Actual Government in Illinois, 1917, The Century Company, New York
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