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Toni Preckwinkle
Toni Preckwinkle (Democratic Party) is the Cook County Board of Commissioners President in Illinois. She assumed office in 2010. Her current term ends on December 7, 2026.
Preckwinkle (Democratic Party) ran for re-election for Cook County Board of Commissioners President in Illinois. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Biography
Professional background
The following is an abbreviated list of positions Preckwinkle has held.[1]
- Assumed position in 2018: Chair, Cook County Democratic Party
- Assumed office in 2010: President, Cook County Board of Commissioners
- 1991-2010: 4th Ward alderman
- 1992-2018: 4th Ward Democratic committeewoman
- 1985-1988: Planner, Chicago Department of Economic Development
- High school history teacher
Education
- B.A., University of Chicago
- Master of Arts in Teaching, University of Chicago[2]
Elections
2022
See also: Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2022)
General election
General election for Cook County Board of Commissioners President
Incumbent Toni Preckwinkle defeated Bob Fioretti and Thea Tsatsos in the general election for Cook County Board of Commissioners President on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Toni Preckwinkle (D) | 68.5 | 967,062 |
 | Bob Fioretti (R) | 28.3 | 399,339 | |
| Thea Tsatsos (L) | 3.2 | 44,615 | ||
| Total votes: 1,411,016 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Eddie Taylor (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Cook County Board of Commissioners President
Incumbent Toni Preckwinkle defeated Richard Boykin in the Democratic primary for Cook County Board of Commissioners President on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Toni Preckwinkle | 75.8 | 374,699 |
 | Richard Boykin | 24.2 | 119,915 | |
| Total votes: 494,614 | |||
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Libertarian primary election
Libertarian primary for Cook County Board of Commissioners President
Thea Tsatsos advanced from the Libertarian primary for Cook County Board of Commissioners President on June 28, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Thea Tsatsos | 100.0 | 1,992 | |
| Total votes: 1,992 | |||
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2019
See also: Mayoral election in Chicago, Illinois (2019)
General runoff election
General runoff election for Mayor of Chicago
Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle in the general runoff election for Mayor of Chicago on April 2, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Lori Lightfoot (Nonpartisan) | 73.7 | 386,039 |
| Toni Preckwinkle (Nonpartisan) | 26.3 | 137,765 | |
| Total votes: 523,804 | |||
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General election
General election for Mayor of Chicago
The following candidates ran in the general election for Mayor of Chicago on February 26, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Lori Lightfoot (Nonpartisan) | 17.5 | 97,667 |
| ✔ | | Toni Preckwinkle (Nonpartisan) | 16.0 | 89,343 |
 | Bill Daley (Nonpartisan) | 14.8 | 82,294 | |
 | Willie Wilson (Nonpartisan) | 10.6 | 59,072 | |
 | Susana Mendoza (Nonpartisan) | 9.0 | 50,373 | |
 | Amara Enyia (Nonpartisan) | 8.0 | 44,589 | |
 | Jerry Joyce (Nonpartisan) | 7.2 | 40,099 | |
 | Gery Chico (Nonpartisan) | 6.2 | 34,521 | |
 | Paul Vallas (Nonpartisan) | 5.4 | 30,236 | |
 | Garry McCarthy (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 14,784 | |
 | La Shawn Ford (Nonpartisan) | 1.0 | 5,606 | |
| Bob Fioretti (Nonpartisan) | 0.8 | 4,302 | |
 | John Kozlar (Nonpartisan) | 0.4 | 2,349 | |
 | Neal Sáles-Griffin (Nonpartisan) | 0.3 | 1,523 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 86 | ||
| Total votes: 556,844 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Catherine Brown D'Tycoon (Nonpartisan)
- Dorothy Brown (Nonpartisan)
- Ja'Mal Green (Nonpartisan)
- Conrien Hykes Clark (Nonpartisan)
- Sandra Mallory (Nonpartisan)
- Richard Mayers (Nonpartisan)
- Roger Washington (Nonpartisan)
2018
See also: Municipal elections in Cook County, Illinois (2018)
General election
General election for Cook County Board of Commissioners President
Incumbent Toni Preckwinkle won election in the general election for Cook County Board of Commissioners President on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Toni Preckwinkle (D) | 96.1 | 1,355,407 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.9 | 54,917 | ||
| Total votes: 1,410,324 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Cook County Board of Commissioners President
Incumbent Toni Preckwinkle defeated Bob Fioretti in the Democratic primary for Cook County Board of Commissioners President on March 20, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Toni Preckwinkle | 60.8 | 444,943 |
| Bob Fioretti | 39.2 | 286,675 | |
| Total votes: 731,618 | |||
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Republican primary election
No Republican candidates ran in the primary.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Andrew Nelson (R)
2013
Preckwinkle was rumored as a candidate in the 2013 special election for the U.S. House, representing Illinois' 2nd District. The election was required to replace Jesse Jackson, Jr.[3] In December 2012, Preckwinkle announced she would not seek the seat.[4]
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Toni Preckwinkle did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Chicago 2019 Candidate Survey
Toni Preckwinkle did not complete Ballotpedia's Chicago candidates survey for 2019.
Campaign website
The following themes were found on Preckwinkle's 2019 campaign website.
| “ |
EDUCATION I believe the greatest investment we can make is in our young people. Before I was an alderman, I was a history teacher in Chicago Public Schools and now my grandchildren are Chicago Public School students. We need to know that all of our city’s children are receiving the best education available, to make sure that what’s possible for some of our children, is the reality for all of our children. PUBLIC SAFETY During my time as Cook County President, we reduced the unnecessary and costly detention of non-violent offenders by more than 30 percent. I have been an outspoken in calling for accountability in the Chicago Police Department and a vocal advocate for juvenile justice reform; reducing the number of children tried as adults and the population in the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center. $15 MINIMUM WAGE A $15 minimum wage brings a family of four just above the poverty line. The fact that the minimum wage is below $15 is an atrocity. I am proposing an extension of the city’s minimum wage law to get us to a $15 minimum wage no later than July 2021. ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE I believe clean water is a human right. It is intolerable that there are still 385,000 lead water service lines to homes. I have a plan to immediately put in place a program to inventory all lead service lines, disclose their location to residents, create a replacement schedule, and bundle replacements geographically for cost efficiencies and to minimize further displacement of lead into drinking water. LGBTQ The time is long overdue for Chicago to show dignity and respect for transgender lives. When Toni is mayor, she will work with Cook Co. State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and the proposed Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice to prioritize investigating the many unsolved murders of transgender women of color and designate the cases as suspected hate crimes. She’s also committed to reforming the Chicago Police Department’s policy on interactions and detainment of transgender individuals, in line with proposals by the ACLU, the Transformative Justice Law Project, and many others. In addition, Toni will require that there is transgender representation on the city’s Civilian Office and Police Accountability board. ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY One of the biggest challenges facing the next mayor of Chicago is addressing the severe racial economic inequality in the city. To do this, the next mayor must focus significantly more attention and resources on the communities that have suffered from decades of disinvestment. Toni believes one of our first responsibility as government is to ensure that there is equitable public investment in public education, public safety, health care, transportation infrastructure, and housing in our communities. Our other responsibility, when necessary, is to intervene when private markets have failed due to misinformation and frankly, discrimination. |
” |
| —Toni Preckwinkle's 2019 campaign website[6] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Chicago Tribune, "Who is Toni Preckwinkle?" February 26, 2019
- ↑ The History Makers, "The Honorable Toni Preckwinkle," accessed March 5, 2019
- ↑ Atlanta Black Star, "Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Vacated Congressional Seat Attracting Many Would-Be Successors," November 24, 2012
- ↑ NBC Chicago, "Preckwinkle Running for 2nd Congressional? "Nonsense," December 4, 2012
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Toni Preckwinkle's 2019 campaign website, "Issues," accessed February 18, 2019
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