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Hyde Park-Kenwood Elected Officials |
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READ FACTS ABOUT REGISTERING AND VOTING FEBRUARY 2 2010.
Find your polling place www. voterinfonet.com or www.chicagoelections.com.
Watch here for news of upcoming elections. You can serve as deputy canvasers/registrars or as judges of election. Contact Board of Elections, (312) 269-7851 FAX 312 269-0664. Training opportunities for volunteer deputy registrars will open again. Call 312 269-7851. See below: County Clerk David Orr's and commissioner's appeals for election judges and call for reform.Services and more office details in Government Services page.
City Council meetings 2nd Wednesday. Live streamed: http://www.chicityclerk.com/citycouncilvideo.html. Committees schedule: http://www.chicityclerk.com/meeting-dates.php.
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Open
hours 2nd Thursday evenings. 4th Saturday ward meetings, 10 am Monumental
Baptist Church.
Ward Sanitation Office. Superintendent Gloria Pittman. 1619 E. 73rd St. 312 747-790. M-F 6-2:30. Open hours Tuesday evenings, 2nd Sats. 10-2, Ward meetings 4th Tuesdays- call for schedule. Free legal counseling 2nd Tuesdays at ward office 6-8 pm. Ward Committeemen: 4th Ward
Democratic- Toni Preckwinkle (Ald.) 5th Ward
Democratic- Leslie Hairston (Ald.) Ward superintendents: 4th: Nathaniel
McGowan 4415 S. Cottage Grove, 60653. (312) 747-0860
Willie
B. Cochran 6357 S.
Cottage Grove Avenue 60637 City Hall
Suite 300, 121 N. LaSalle St. 60602 willie.cochrane@cityofchicago.org
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City
Information and Complaints Emergencies:
911
Aldermanic websites: go to www.cityofchicago.org, find City Council and scroll to alderman's name. Their e-mail is first initial of first name followed directly by last name@cityofchicago.org. Remapped Ward maps are available in City Hall, ground floor. |
| County |
Todd
Stroger,
Area Commissioner:
5th Subcircuit,
Circuit Court of Cook County. (South
Side north of 75th and east of Western Avenue) |
Cook
County site The
following are full of resources: Office of General County Number: (312) 443-5656 |
| State |
State
Legislative Website: www.legis.state.il.us
new e-mail:repcurrie@sbcglobal.net Map: 25th Representative District. Each rep. district constitutes one half of a senatorial district. Eleanor Gordon for office, Annette Harley for cutting red tape. Rep. Currie's
office is collecting used cell _____________________________________ State
Representative, 26th District, ______________________________ State Senator Kwame Raoul, 13th
Kwame Raoul www.kwameraoul.com Springfield:
105B State Capital, Springfield, Redistricted
state legislative maps are |
Patrick
Quinn Governor's
Office-Chicago
State of Illinois website. Visit our Government Services. General state information: (312) 814-3500 State Income Tax (800) 732-8866 Follow in
the website top left column any bill introduced in the current session
through the legisature and find out its contents and status. (Note, many
bills start as boilerplate filler- KidCare/FamilyCare: Applications and list of Application Agents: www.kidcareillinois.com or hotline 1-866-4-OUR-KIDS. ____________________________ Office of the Attorney General Lisa Madigan Downtown
main number (Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, 60601) 312 814-3000. Numbers:
Consumer Fraud (Chicago) 800-385-5438, Areas of
representation: Antitrust, Civil Appeals, Civil Rights, Consumer Protection,
Disabilities, Enviromnental Enforcementt and Asbestos Abatement, General
Law, Land Acquisition, Industrial (Workers' Comp) |
| National |
Congressman,
2nd District
Congressman,
7th District |
U.S. Senator Roland
Burris
________________________________ Federal offices: *800) 688-9889 |
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Chicago City
Clerk Get info here on:
Chicago City Council When
to contact your alderman.
More including more links in Public Safety and CAPS pages
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Other
City Services New! Dept. of Children and Youth Services consolidates lots of programs. Note: if these links
don't work, subsitute www.cityofchicago.org
for the initial address Consumer complaints (800) 386-5438 Department
of Aging
Services for Seniors (any level of gov't):
The department has
been divided into Buildings Department
of Environment or
Mayor's
Office for People with Disabilities
Department
of Public Health
Public
Aid and Health Services-any level
Department
of Human Services
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Volunteer deputy registrar training. 312 269-7851, FAX 312 269-0664. Feb. 2004
Training requests must be submitted, in writing, on an organization's letterhead, by the organization coordinator, with phone number. The Community Services Division of the Board must receive these requests by the indicated deadline. Send to attn. of Kelly Bateman, Director, Community Services Division. The request must include name and address of each volunteer and indicate the class date and time requested. Attendees must reside in Chicago. Sessions may be cancelled. Training is at 33 N. LaSalle 2nd floor.
County Clerk Orr: need felt for election judges
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we get elections right?
As Cook County's chief election authority, I hear that a lot. In reality, neither rocket scientists nor my staff runs the show on Election day. The most powerful people on Election Day are the election judges--your neighbors who wake up ast 4 a.m. and spend a 14-hour day inside a school gymnasium to ensure that your polling place runs smoothly.
In helping to guarantee democracy, polling place workers shouldn't have to take a vacation day or worry about jeopardizing their jobs. Instead, businesses should allow employees to take the day off to serve as election judges--just as they do for employees who sit on juries.
Since the 2000 presidential election, most of the debate surrounding election reform has focused on voting equipment, while the human component of improving elections has largely been ignored. Sure, machnes count votes and transmit results, but election judges must set up the equipment correctly, show voters how the machines work and know what to do if they malfunction.
Unfortunately, election authorities nationwide face shortages of eletion judges at a time when we need them most. The introduction of new federal voting procedures coupled with an expected heavy voter turnout makes it essential that every precinct have a full complement of five election judges for the November 2 election. That's more than 25,000 election judges in Cook County alone.
Last spring, my office drafted a bill that would have required businesses to give time off to employes who work as election judges. It ultimately died after winning approval in the Illinois House. But civic-minded companies in Ilinois can still support the spirit of the law on their own.
Deforest B. Soaries, Jr., chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission, has called the decrease in polling place workers "an emerging crisis" that eclipses any technical issues. The commission is now urging corporate leaders nationwide to recruit more election judges by awarding employees the day off to work ath e polls.
Granted, working as an election judge is hardly glamourous stuff. You work long hours and don't get rich doing it. But election judges play a critical role by serving on the front lines and makeing sure elections are conducted fairly, honestly and accurately.
The more knowledgeable, well-trained judges we have on hand, the better. Granting them time off to protect voter rights, reduce polling place confusion and minimize ballot errors only makes sense.
Election judge vacancies a familiar problem. by Theresa M. Petrone, Bd of El. Commrs. [Note, a firm rebuttal by a retired teacher to the part about using teachers appeared in the September 29 Hyde Park Herald.]
Hyde Park Herald, September 15, 2004
The current system of recruiting and assigning judges is no longer effective and needs to be replaced with a procedure that will ensure all voters are served by trained and reliable poll workers.
Judges of election are currently appointed by the two major political parties. In the City of Chicago, approximately 14,000 judges, evenly divided betweeen Democrat an Republican, are needed to staff the city's 2,709 polling places.
Unfortunately, in recent years, this task has become more difficult, leaving the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners scrambling to fill thousands of vacancies during the 45-day period prior to the election when the Board can make direct appointments in precincts where the political parties made no assignments.
With only a few months until the Nov. 2 Presidential Election, the Board finds itself with more than 10,000 judges of election vacancies. A crisis? Yes, but one tha the Board faces every two years when the term of all judges of election expires.
Past experience has demonstrated that the key to a well-run election is to hae trained and conscientious judges of election assigned to all precincts. Although there are hundreds of dedicated judges of election who serve every election, some for decades, there are many precincts where it is difficult to recruit anyone to serve. This problem is compounded by the large number of judges of election who fail to show up election morning, leaving some precincts with one or two judges, or even none!
Serving as a judge of election requires training. Judges must know ho to set up the polling place in the morning; process and assist voters during the polling hours; be able to close the polls and tally the vote; and be knowledgeable of a complex State Election code and federal reauirements. The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners does its pasrt in providing a professional school of instruction, a comprehensive judge of election manual, and unlimited backup services through Election central. Yet, even with all of this assistance, serving as a judge can be a challenging and intimidating task. In precincts with untrined judges of election, mistakes are easy to make, sometimes disenfranchising voters.
What is the solution to the judge of election vacancy crisis? Her is a suggestion that would solve the judge of election dilemma and provide voters with the best possible electoral system:
A professional cadre of Chicago school teaachers who would staff the city's polling places every election....
Barbara Flynn Currie
Bobby Rush
Jesse
Jackson, Jr.
Danny
Davis
Richard
J. Durbin