Cook County Assessor

County clerk of Cook County, Illinois

Cook County Clerk

Incumbent
Fritz Kaegi

since December 2018

Term length| 4 years
Inaugural holder| J.L. Jacobs
Formation| 1932

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

## Office description

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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

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Asessor  | Term in office  | Party  | Notes  | Cite

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| J.L. Jacobs  | 1932–1934  |  | Appointed in 1932  | [1]
| John S. Clark  | 1934–1954  |  | Elected in 1934, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1950  | [1]
| Frank Keenan  | 1954–1958  |  | Elected in 1954  | [1]
| John McGuane  | 1958–1958  |  |  | [1]
| P.J. Cullerton | 1958–1974  | Democratic |  | [1]
| Thomas M. Tully  | 1974–1978  |  |  | [1]
| 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]
| Joseph Berrios | December 6, 2010–December 3, 2018  | Democratic | Elected in 2010 and 2014; lost reelection in 2018 | [1]
| Fritz Kaegi | December 3, 2018–present  | Democratic | Elected in 2018 and 2022 | [1]

## Recent election results

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Cook County Assessor general elections

Year  | Winning candidate  | Party  | Vote (pct)  | Opponent  | Party  | Vote (pct)  | Opponent  | Party  | Vote (pct)  | Opponent  | Party  | Vote (pct)
1986[3] | Thomas C. Hynes | Democratic | 969,500 (357,758%) | Le Roy M. Graham  | Republican | 357,758 (26.95%)  |  |  |  |  |  |
1990[4] | Thomas C. Hynes | Democratic  | 775,493 (62.05%) | Ronald Bean  | Republican  | 333,325 (26.67%)  | Donald Pamon  | Harold Washington Party | 141,015 (11.28%)  |  |  |
1994 | Thomas C. Hynes | Democratic  |  | Sandra C. Wilson-Muriel  | Republican  |  | Donald Pamon  | Harold Washington Party  |  | Loretha Weisinger  | Populist |
1998[5] | James Houlihan | Democratic  | 926,646 (75.58%) | Jose Carlos Gomez  | Republican  | 260,245 (21.23%)  | Philip Morris  | Justice Party  | 39,111 (3.19%)  |  |  |
2002[6][7] | James Houlihan | Democratic  | 954,774 (75.78%) | James P. Pieczonka  | Republican  | 305,176 (24.22%)  |  |  |  |  |  |
2006[8] | James Houlihan | Democratic  | 1,010,400 (80.41%) | Ralph Conner  | Republican  | 246,186 (19.59%)  |  |  |  |  |  |
2010[9] | Joseph Berrios | Democratic  | 648,053 (48.03%) | Forrest Claypool | Independent | 427,842 (31.71%)  | Sharon Strobeck-Eckersall  | Republican  | 237,955 (17.64%)  |  |  |
2014[10] | Joseph Berrios | Democratic  | 960,435 (100%) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
2018[11] | Fritz Kaegi | Democratic  | 1,272,651 (76.19%) | Joseph Paglia  | Republican  | 397,741 (23.81%)  |  |  |  |  |  |
2022[12] | Fritz Kaegi | Democratic  | 1,063,188 (82.31%) | Nico Tsatsoulis  | Libertarian | 228,425 (17.69%)  |  |  |  |  |  |

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Office History | Cook County Assessor's Office". www.cookcountyassessor.com. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
2. ^ a b 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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Cook County Assessors

* J.L. Jacobs (1932–34)
* John S. Clark (1934–54)
* Frank Keenan (1954–58)
* P.J. Cullerton (1958–74)
* Thomas M. Tully (1974–78)
* Thomas Hynes (1978–97)
* James Houlihan (1997–10)
* Joseph Berrios (2010–18)
* Fritz Kaegi (2018–present)

Elections|

* 1934
* 1938
* 1942
* 1946
* 1950
* 1954
* 1958
* 1962
* 1966
* 1970
* 1974
* 1978
* 1982
* 1986
* 1990
* 1994
* 1998
* 2002
* 2006
* 2010
* 2014
* 2018
* 2022

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Government of Cook County, Illinois

Elected executive offices|

* President of Board of Commissioners
* Assessor
* Clerk
* Sheriff
* State's Attorney
* Treasurer
* Defunct offices
* Coroner
* Recorder of Deeds
* Superintendent of the Education Service Region

Board of Commissioners|

* 1st district
* 2nd district
* 3rd district
* 4th district
* 5th district
* 6th district
* 7th district
* 8th district
* 9th district
* 10th district
* 11th district
* 12th district
* 13th district
* 14th district
* 15th district
* 16th district
* 17th district

Other|

* Board of Review
* Circuit Court (Clerk)
* Superior Court defunct
* Committeepeople
* Forest Preserves
* Public Defender
* Public Guardian
* Medical Examiner

Elections|

* 1946
* 1980 (State's Attorney)
* 1984
* 1986
* 1988
* 1990
* 1992
* 1994
* 1996
* 1998
* 2000
* 2002
* 2004
* 2006
* 2008
* 2010
* 2012
* 2014
* 2016
* 2018
* 2020
* 2022
* 2024

Buildings and facilities|

* Administration Building
* City Hall-County Building
* Richard J. Daley Center
* Jail
* Provident Hospital
* John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital

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