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Report: Cook County should eliminate unincorporated areas

Posted on September 28, 2016

Daily Herald

This article covers the recent release of the Civic Federation’s comprehensive report on the unincorporated areas in Cook County, which encourages Cook County to develop and formally adopt a multi-year plan to eventually eliminate all of its unincorporated areas. Laurence Msall, President of the Civic Federation, remarks that having unincorporated areas without direct municipal services in a modern county is outdated, inefficient and expensive to the overall county.

For additional coverage on the Civic Federation’s 2016 Unincorporated Cook County report, please click here