| Election Name: | 1994 Cook County Board of Commissioners election |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1990 Cook County Board of Commissioners election |
| Previous Year: | 1990 |
| Next Election: | 1998 Cook County Board of Commissioners election |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
| Election Date: | November 8, 1994 |
| Seats For Election: | All 17 seats on the Cook County Board of Commissioners |
| Majority Seats: | 9 |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Seats Before1: | 11 |
| Seats1: | 11 |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Seats Before2: | 6 |
| Seats2: | 6 |
| Party3: | Harold Washington Party |
| Seats Before3: | 0 |
| Seats3: | 0 |
| Map Size: | 300px |
The 1994 Cook County Board of Commissioners election was held on November 9, 1994. It was preceded by a primary election held on March 15, 1994. It coincided with other 1994 Cook County, Illinois, elections (including the election for president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners). It saw all seventeen seats of the Cook County Board of Commissioners up for election to four-year terms.
This was the first for the Cook County Board of Commissioners conducted with individual districts, as previous elections had been conducted through two sets of at-large elections (one for ten seats from the city of Chicago and another for seven seats from suburban Cook County).[1]
Six of those elected were new to the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
The number of commissioners that each party held remained unchanged.
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 1st district. Danny K. Davis, an incumbent Democrat who had served a single term as a commissioner from Chicago at-large, was elected to the 1st district.[2]
Davis faced no opponents in the Democratic primary.[3] [4]
No candidates ran in the Republican Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 2nd district. Bobbie L. Steele, an incumbent Democrat who had served two-terms as a commissioner from Chicago at-large, was elected to the 2nd district.[2]
No candidates ran in the Republican primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 3rd district. Jerry Butler, an incumbent Democrat who had served as a commissioner from Chicago at-large for two terms, was elected to the 3rd district.[2]
The Republican primary was won by Clara Simms-Johnson, a child protective investigator for the Department of Children and Family Services, who ran unopposed.[2]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[2]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 4th district. John Stroger, an incumbent Democrat who had served six terms as a commissioner from Chicago at-large, was elected to the 4th district.[5]
No candidates ran in the Republican primary.[2]
The Harold Washington Party primary was won by Bruce Crosby, a community activist.[2] [6]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 5th district. Deborah Sims, a Democrat, was elected to the 5th district.[7]
Deborah Sims defeated Governors State University political science professor Robert Donaldson in the Democratic primary.[4]
Lawrence Ragland, an accountant, won the Republican primary.[3] [2]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 6th district. Barclay "Bud" Fleming, a Republican, was elected to the 6th district.
Worth Township supervisor Joan Patricia Murphy won the Democratic primary.[3] [2] [8] Joan Patricia Murphy had defeated state senator Richard F. Kelly in the Democratic primary.[4]
Barclay "Bud" Fleming, an engineer who was the village president of Lynwood, won the Republican primary, defeating lawyer Helen Elizabeth Kelly as well as lawyer and East Hazel Crest village president Thomas Brown in the Republican primary.[4] [9]
The district was regarded as a potential "swing district", with both major parties seeing a potential for victory in its election.[4]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 7th district. Joseph Mario Moreno, a Democrat, was elected to the 7th district.[10]
No candidates ran in the Republican primary.[3]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 8th district. Roberto Maldonado, a Democrat, was elected to the 8th district.
No candidates ran in the Republican primary.[3]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 9th district. Peter N. Silvestri, a Republican, was elected to the 9th district.
Domico had beaten five other candidates in the Democratic primary.[4]
Silvestri faced no opponents in the Republican primary.[4]
Marco Domico, who had served two terms as a commissioner from Chicago at-large, won the Democratic primary over seven opponents.
Elmwood Park village president Peter N. Silvestri won the Republican primary, running unopposed.[3] [11]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
This district had been regarded as a "swing district", with both major parties being seen as having a chance of winning it.[2]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 10th district. Maria Pappas, an incumbent Democrat who had served a single term as a commissioner from Chicago at-large, was elected to the 10th district.[2]
Pappas defeated three opponents to win the Democratic primary.
Republican Party nominee John McNeal, an attorney and 48th Ward Republican committeeman, won the Republican primary, running unopposed.[3] [2]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 11th district. John P. Daley, an incumbent Democrat that had been appointed a commissioner from Chicago at-large in 1992, was elected to the 11th district.
John P. Daley defeated communications consultant Dennis Baker in the Democratic primary.[3] [4]
No candidates ran in the Republican primary.[3]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 12th district. Ted Lechowicz, an incumbent Democrat who had served two terms as a commissioner from Chicago at-large, was elected to the 12th district.[12]
Ted Lechowicz defeated two opponents in the Democratic primary.
No candidates ran in the Republican primary.[3]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 13th district. Calvin Sutker, a Democrat, was elected to the 13th district.[2]
Former state representative Calvin Sutker defeated two opponents in the Democratic primary.
Lourdes Gagui Mon, an educator, won Republican primary.[3] [2] [13]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 14th district. Richard Siebel, an incumbent Republican who had served several terms as a commissioner from suburban Cook County at-large, was elected to the 14th district. He defeated Democratic nominee Kelly Ann Sheehan.[2]
In the Republican primary, Siebel defeated Palatine village president Rita Mullins.[4]
No candidates ran in the Democratic primary.[3] The Democratic Party ultimately nominated Kelly Ann Sheehan.[14]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 15th district. Carl Hansen, an incumbent Republican who had served five terms as a commissioner from suburban Cook County at-large, was elected to the 15th district.[15]
No candidates ran in the Democratic primary.[3]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 16th district.
Allan C. Carr, an incumbent Republican who had served as a commissioner from suburban Cook County at-large.[2]
Attorney Tony Peraica won the Democratic primary, running unopposed.[3] [2]
No candidates ran in the Harold Washington Party primary.[3]
See also: Cook County Board of Commissioners 17th district.
Herb Schumann, an incumbent Republican who had served two terms as a commissioner from suburban Cook County at-large, was elected to the 17th district.[16]
William Hurley, an insurance agent, won the Democratic primary, running unopposed.[3] [2]
Herb Schumann defeated lawyer Teressa Nuccio in the Republican primary.[3] [4]