Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s appointments to four Northern Illinois area transit boards were approved by the Cook County Board on Thursday, July 16.
The appointments include five individuals to the new Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) board created by the Illinois legislature, two of whom will also sit on the Metra board, two on the Pace board and one on the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) board respectively. Preckwinkle also made one appointment each…


