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Government of Chicago

Index Government of Chicago

The government of the City of Chicago, Illinois is divided into executive and legislative branches. [1]

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicago City Council

The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois.

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Chicago Department of Fleet and Facility Management

The City of Chicago Department of Fleet and Facility Management (DFM) was established by Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1991 as the Department of Fleet Management.

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Chicago Department of Public Health

The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) is a government department of the City of Chicago.

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Chicago Department of Transportation

The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) is an executive department of the City of Chicago responsible for the safety, environmental sustainability, maintenance, and aesthetics of the surface transportation networks and public ways within the city.

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Chicago Fire Department

The Chicago Fire Department (CFD) provides both fire suppression and emergency medical services to the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of Chicago.

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Chicago History Museum

Chicago History Museum (formerly known as the Chicago Historical Society) was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history.

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Chicago Housing Authority

The Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) is a municipal corporation that oversees public housing within the city of Chicago.

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Chicago Housing Authority Police Department

The Chicago Housing Authority Police Department (also known as the CHAPD) was created as a supplement to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), to provide dedicated police services to the residents of one of the nation's most impoverished and crime ridden developments for low-income housing.

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Chicago Police Department

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is the law enforcement agency of the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois, under the jurisdiction of the City Council.

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Chicago Public Library

The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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City Clerk of Chicago

The City Clerk of Chicago is in charge of record-keeping for the city of Chicago and its elections.

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City Colleges of Chicago

The City Colleges of Chicago is a system of seven community colleges and six satellite sites that provide learning opportunities for residents of the Chicago area.

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Codification (law)

In law, codification is the process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction in certain areas, usually by subject, forming a legal code, i.e. a codex (book) of law.

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Community development

The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." It is a broad term given to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local communities.

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Cook County Board of Commissioners

The Cook County Board of Commissioners is a legislative body made up of 17 commissioners who are elected by district, and a president who is elected county wide, all for four year terms.

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Cook County Sheriff's Office

The Cook County Sheriff's Office is the principal law enforcement agency that serves Cook County, Illinois.

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Cook County State's Attorney

The Cook County State's Attorney functions as the district attorney for Cook County, Illinois, and heads the second largest prosecutor's office in the United States.

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Cook County, Illinois

Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Flag of Chicago

The flag of Chicago consists of two blue horizontal stripes or bars on a field of white, each stripe one-sixth the height of the full flag, and placed slightly less than one-sixth of the way from the top and bottom.

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Government of Cook County, Illinois

The government of Cook County, Illinois is primarily composed of the Board of Commissioners, other elected officials such as the Sheriff, State's Attorney, Treasurer, Board of Review, Clerk, Assessor, Recorder, Cook County Circuit Court judges and Circuit Court Clerk, as well as numerous other officers and entities.

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Government of Illinois

The government of Illinois, under the state’s constitution, has three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial.

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Illinois circuit courts

The Illinois circuit courts are state courts of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Legislature

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city.

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Local ordinance

A local ordinance is a law usually found in a code of laws for a political division smaller than a state or nation, i.e., a local government such as a municipality, county, parish, prefecture, etc.

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Mayor of Chicago

The Mayor of Chicago is the chief executive of Chicago, Illinois, the third-largest city in the United States.

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Municipal Code of Chicago

The Municipal Code of Chicago is the codification of local ordinances of a general and permanent nature of the City of Chicago.

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Near West Side, Chicago

The Near West Side, one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, is on the West Side, west of the Chicago River and adjacent to the Loop.

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OpenGov Foundation

The OpenGov Foundation is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that bridges the gap between citizens and government with modern technology, data and design thinking.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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Ward (United States)

In the United States, a ward is an optional division of a city or town for administrative and representative purposes, especially for purposes of an election.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Chicago

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