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Chris Kolker, appointed as Chairman in March of 2004, graduated from Arizona State University in 1989 with a B.A. in political science. From 1990 to 1995 he worked as a legislative and political aide for Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan. During those years, he also worked with legislators, as well as state and local officials, on a wide variety of governmental issues. In 1995 Chris entered law school at Southern Illinois University and graduated magna cum laude in 1998. He has worked in labor and personnel law since law school for both employers and employees.
Originally from East St. Louis, Chris currently resides in Fairview Heights.
Betty Bukraba was appointed a Commissioner effective October
6, 2003. She recently retired from the office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court of Cook County, having served as the
Director of Personnel Services for the previous 14 years.
As Director, she had responsibilities for all aspects of employee
relations in the 2300 employee agency from applicant testing
to retirement planning. While serving in this capacity, she
was a recipient of the Cook County Distinguished Public Service
award in 1999. She is the widow of a Chicago firefighter and
raised their two children while operating a small business.
Betty remains active in numerous neighborhood and civic organizations
and causes.
Raymond W. Ewell was born on December 29, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Illinois (1949), a Master’s degree from the University of Illinois (1951), and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago (1954). He was a State Representative in the Illinois General Assembly for eight terms from 1967 to 1983, where he served as chairman of the Higher Education Committee, the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus, and the National Society of State Legislators (1969). He served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1955.
In addition to being an attorney at law for 50 years, Mr. Ewell has been a teacher in the Chicago public schools, a gas station operator, a partner in a brokerage firm, bond counsel for the Cook County Board of Commissioners (1992), and a lobbyist for the City of Chicago, the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund, the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, and Cook County. While in the legislature he served as minority spokesman on the Elections, Agriculture, Conservation, Registration and Regulation, and Executive Committees. He also served on the committees for County and Township, Higher Education, Primary and Secondary Education, Judiciary, Public Utilities, Human Resources, and Motor Vehicles.
Mr. Ewell served as senior advisor to United States Senator Carol Moseley Braun and to John H. Stroger, President of the Cook County Board. He is president of the Perry Avenue Block Club, a member of the N.A.A.C.P., the Cook County Bar Association, the Southtown Y.M.C.A., the Urban League, P.U.S.H., Southtown Y.M.C.A. Businessmen’s Association, and Director of St. Carthage Grooming School for Boys.
Barbara J. "Bobbie" Peterson was initially appointed as a Commissioner on the Illinois Civil Service Commission by Governor George Ryan.
She previously sat on the Governor's State University Board of Trustees.
There she chaired the Personnel Committee, which oversees
collective bargaining contracts, faculty and civil service
salaries and employee benefits. She also represented GSU on
the State University Civil Service System and was the university’s
founding member trustee for the Monsignor Ignatius D. McDermott
Endowed Scholarship.
Commissioner Peterson serves on the Will/Kankakee Regional Development Authority. She also serves as secretary of the Will County Planning and Zoning Commission and has a leadership role in regional planning. Recently, that Commission completed a comprehensive general plan for the six-county northeastern Illinois region.
A longtime community activist and volunteer,
Commissioner Peterson is in her fourth term as the elected
state central committeeman of the 11th Congressional District.
She is also involved in numerous special political projects
and public relations activities.
Bobbie Peterson is a longtime resident of
Will County. With her husband Charles, Bobbie spent 35 years
as owner of a union-shop mechanical piping company and is
still engaged in agriculture. Born and educated in Chicago,
she is a graduate of Gregg Business College. The Petersons
have four sons and eight grandchildren.
Ares G. Dalianis is a partner at the law firm of Franczek Sullivan P.C. in Chicago where he practices in the areas of education law, real property taxation and assessment appeals, employment and personnel law, real estate, and general corporate representation for school districts and other units of local government. Ares is AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer recognition for ethical standards and legal ability.
Ares has previously served as the Deputy Supervisor of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Real Estate Tax Section and as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Lake County, Illinois. He is a former member of his local Board of Education and serves on the Parish Council at his church. He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ares was appointed to the Commission in March of 2007.
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