{"id":383196,"date":"2010-03-03T07:16:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/cook-county-board-pays-tribute-to-long-time-member-carl-hansen"},"modified":"2010-03-03T07:16:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T12:16:40","slug":"cook-county-board-pays-tribute-to-long-time-member-carl-hansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/383196","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Board pays tribute to long-time member Carl Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cook County Board paid tribute Tuesday to the late Carl Hansen, who died Feb. 2 after serving 32 years as a county commissioner from Mount Prospect.<\/p>\n

“Carl represented what was best in representative government,” said Commissioner Peter Silvestri of Elmwood Park.<\/p>\n

“He was a voice for the suburbs at a time when the suburbs were developing,” Evanston Democratic Commissioner Larry Suffredin said, “and without that voice the suburbs would have been very different.”<\/p>\n

“He was the glue that held the Northwest suburbs together,” added Bartlett Republican Commissioner Timothy Schneider, who replaced Hansen as 15th District commissioner.<\/p>\n

He called Hansen “a fiscal conservative” and “a taxpayer watchdog” and announced that he’ll present a proposal at the Forest Preserve Board meeting Wednesday to dedicate a portion of the Poplar Creek Forest Preserve near Hoffman Estates to Hansen, after Hansen had worked to prevent that area from being used as a landfill during his term in office.<\/p>\n

Hansen, a commissioner from 1974 to 2006, was the second-longest serving county board member after the late board President John Stroger.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Cook County Board paid tribute Tuesday to the late Carl Hansen, who died Feb. 2 after serving 32 years as a county commissioner from Mount Prospect. “Carl represented what was best in representative government,” said Commissioner Peter Silvestri of Elmwood Park. “He was a voice for the suburbs at a time when the suburbs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}