Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle delivers her 2024 budget address on Oct. 5, 2023. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]

Members of the public and stakeholders in various organizations that have benefited from county programs participated in public hearings Thursday to call for continued funding for those programs, including ones with limited one-time allocations. 

The public hearings took place during meetings of the Cook County Board of Commissioners Finance Committee.