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Cook County board allows remote participation, approves consent calendar including several honorific resolutions

Cook County Board of Commissioners · January 15, 2026
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Summary

The board voted 15–0 (two absent) to permit remote participation and then approved the consent calendar by roll call; honors adopted included resolutions for LaShawn DeFeo, Deputy Chief Dionne Trotter, the Savoy Big 5/Harlem Globetrotters centennial and David Kelly.

At its Jan. 22 meeting the Cook County Board of Commissioners approved a motion to permit remote participation and then approved the consent calendar in a roll-call vote that the clerk reported as 15 ayes and 2 absent.

A motion to allow remote participation — put forward to add Commissioner McCaskill as a remote participant — was moved and seconded and approved by roll call (the clerk announced 15 yeas and 2 absent). Shortly afterward the chair moved approval of…

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