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Recent Experience
- Candidate for Cook County SheriffCandidate2026View Position
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About Cook County Sheriff
The Sheriff's Office provides law enforcement protection and service throughout the county, operates and maintains a detention facility (Jail), acts as officers of the court to provide courthouse security and prisoner conveyance, directs emergency management, conducts search and rescue operations, and oversees recreational education and enforcement.
- Next election
- August 11, 2026
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District information
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