Former Cook County Historian at Cook County, Illinois
Joined March 2022
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
10 Sep 2025
I miss taking photos at Wrigley. But I was glad the @Cubs allowed cameras during the Anthony Rizzo era. Just the best time to ever be a Cubs fan. More from a thread of Rizzo photos I took at Wrigley. #behereforit #gocubsgo #rizzo 5/5
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
10 Sep 2025
I miss taking photos at Wrigley. But I was glad the @Cubs allowed cameras during the Anthony Rizzo era. Just the best time to ever be a Cubs fan. More from a thread of Rizzo photos I took at Wrigley. #behereforit #gocubsgo #rizzo 4/5
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
10 Sep 2025
I miss taking photos at Wrigley. But I was glad the @Cubs allowed cameras during the Anthony Rizzo era. Just the best time to ever be a Cubs fan. More from a thread of Rizzo photos I took at Wrigley. #behereforit #gocubsgo #rizzo 3/5
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
10 Sep 2025
I miss taking photos at Wrigley. But I was glad the @Cubs allowed cameras during the Anthony Rizzo era. Just the best time to ever be a Cubs fan. More of a thread of Rizzo photos I took at Wrigley. #behereforit #gocubsgo #rizzo 2/5
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
10 Sep 2025
I miss taking photos at Wrigley. But I was glad the @Cubs allowed cameras during the Anthony Rizzo era. Just the best time to ever be a Cubs fan. A thread of Rizzo photos I took at Wrigley. #behereforit #gocubsgo #rizzo 1/5
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11 Dec 2024
My understanding of the fire at the County Building right now is it started on floor 3 1/2 where a lot of historical records exist.
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
10 Dec 2024
I, too, agree with myself.
10 Dec 2024
I agree with me. These like the County contest had too many entries using city’s 6 pt star. A LOT of navy blue. Seeing designs in diff combos might help: red/black, gold/blue. If stuck on 21, use the blue field from the US flag in 1819 as the whole flag.
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10 Dec 2024
I agree with me. These like the County contest had too many entries using city’s 6 pt star. A LOT of navy blue. Seeing designs in diff combos might help: red/black, gold/blue. If stuck on 21, use the blue field from the US flag in 1819 as the whole flag.
10 Dec 2024
Had a role in the @cookcountygov flag contest, my thoughts: too much blue, too many straight horizontal lines, butterfly should add monarch detail (most potential), too much Chi star, stop separating Chi from state. More creativity on symbolism pls
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
29 Sep 2024
Always at home no matter how far you go. #YouHaveToSeeIt @cubs @BleacherNation @realcubsinsider @obvious_shirts @BTYLPodcast @CHGO_Cubs @WatchMarquee @D_Ross3 @DexterFowler @KrisBryant_23 @kschwarb12 @JLester34 @javy23baez @ARizzo44
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27 Mar 2024
Hearing that former @CookCountyBoard President Richard Phelan passed away. The first @cookcountygov President I worked for back in 1993. Condolences to all family, friends and my former co-workers of the time.
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
22 Nov 2023
These are the last lines of the last speech ever typed for President Kennedy, intended for remarks on November 22, 1963 at the Democratic State Committee in Austin, Texas.
The speech: jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/…
ALT Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to the nation, and, indeed, to all mankind. Our duty is not merely the preservation of political power but the preservation of peace and freedom. So let us not be petty when our cause is so great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation's future is at stake. Let us stand together with renewed confidence in our cause -- united in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future -- and determined that this land we love shall lead all- mankind into new frontiers of peace and abundance.
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22 Nov 2023
The day after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, the @CookCountyBoard assembled for a Special Meeting in memoriam. These were Journal of Proceedings for that meeting. @JFKLibrary @cookcountygov @CookCoArchives #JFK
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
22 Nov 2023
Photo I took at Arlington National Cemetery of the gravesite of President Kennedy. @JFKLibrary @arlingtonnatlRB
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
14 Nov 2023
You know what would be cool? If @ILSecOfState added to their specialty plate program selling retro versions of Illinois plates. The designs and colorways are great alternatives to the overdone version currently in use.
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29 Aug 2023
City of Evanston having a flag redesign contest for students. Sounds familiar! Hope they also get a great result! cityofevanston.org/Home/Comp…
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
15 Aug 2023
On this day in 1967, the Picasso statue was dedicated on what was Civic Center (now Daley) Plaza in Chicago. In January 2015, the Ernie Banks statue shared the plaza in memory of the #Cubs Hall of Famer.
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
12 Aug 2023
You need to take this down and repost. This has nothing to do with @cookcountygov
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30 Jul 2023
I remember this well!
30 Jul 2023
Two years ago today, I retired from @cookcountygov. From my favorite day at work in 2017: the @cubs World Series trophy sat next to me for a whole day of @CookCountyBoard meetings. @johnfritchey
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Cook County Historian Emeritus retweeted
14 Jul 2023
Congratulations! @cookcountygov
14 Jul 2023
The @cookcountygov softball team is champion again! Won the Thursday corporate Grant Park league in season shortened by #NASCARChicago and #Lollapalooza planning. #Chicago @ToniPreckwinkle @BillLowryFor3 @stanleymoore04 @JosinaMorita @Brandon4Chicago
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