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Cook County, Ill. will get a gun violence coordinator to help curb violence. Commissioner Richard Boykin (Dist.-1st) sponsored the ordinance for the new position.

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Cook County gets Gun Violence Coordinator to Help Curb Shootings

In response to Chicago’s spiraling shooting deaths, the Cook County Board of Commissioners authorized Sheriff Tom Dart to appoint a gun violence coordinator – believed to be the first nationally.