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On May 14th we added new salary data to the Cook County Open Data Portal containing annual salary information as of May 12, 2014. There are three previous salary data releases on the portal: September 16, 2011, September 22, 2011, and March 5, 2013.

During the past several weeks we have been working on making incremental improvements to the user experience of the data portal. Default View The default display type has been changed from “compact list” to “rich list.” The Rich List display shows m

The Cook County Department of Environmental Control has received a 2014 US Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Assessment Grant.

Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, Governor Pat Quinn, and Senator Dick Durbin announced today that the Chicago Metro Region is one of the first 12 locations to be designated a “Manufacturing Community” through the Investing in Manufacturing Com

Cook County and Forest Preserve District Board President Toni Preckwinkle today announced details of new legislation designed to bring the highly stressed pension funds for Cook County and Forest Preserve District employees to 100% funding status wit