Tinley Park, IL is a vibrant city located in Cook County with a strong sense of community and government. The current mayor is Jacob Vandenberg, who was elected in 2019 and is currently serving his first term. Tinley Park has a City Council consisting of seven members who are elected for four-year terms to represent the citizens of the town in local governance decisions. The city also has an active Chamber of Commerce which is dedicated to promoting business in the area, as well as state and federal representatives who work to protect the interests of Tinley Park residents on a larger scale. The political issues affecting Tinley Park include ensuring adequate housing and transportation options, investing in infrastructure improvements, maintaining safe neighborhoods, and advocating for policies that make life better for its citizens.
The political climate in Tinley Park, IL is moderately liberal.
Cook County, IL is very liberal. In Cook County, IL 74.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 24.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Cook county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 74.2% to 24.0%.
Cook county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Tinley Park, IL is moderately liberal.
Cook County, Illinois is very liberal.
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metro Area is very liberal.
Illinois is moderately liberal.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Tinley Park, Illinois: D D D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Tinley Park, IL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 4,535 contributions totaling $433,548 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $96 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 2,490 contributions totaling $534,465 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $215 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)