Posen, IL is located in Cook County and is governed by a variety of local officials. The current mayor of Posen, IL is Richard A. Zalewski. There are six village trustees that comprise the village board. These trustees are responsible for enacting local laws and regulations as well as budgeting for the local government. Additionally, there is a village manager, who works alongside the elected officials to ensure that services and programs are managed efficiently and effectively. Posen also has a police department which provides law enforcement services for the area and helps keep citizens safe from crime and other threats. Residents of Posen have access to various public services such as healthcare, education, public transportation, and other municipal services provided by the local government. Local politics in Posen takes place mainly at the village board level where trustees make decisions on how to best serve the community’s interests with regards to public safety, economic development, environmental protection, infrastructure repair/maintenance and more.
The political climate in Zip 60469 (Posen, IL) is strongly 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
Zip 60469 (Posen, IL) is strongly liberal.
Posen, Illinois is strongly 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.
Posen, 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 for the Democrat and I for the Independent. 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 zip 60469 (Posen)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 15 contributions totaling $2,932 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $195 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 4 contributions totaling $340 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $85 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)