Anthony Joel Quezada is a lifelong Chicagoan and was raised on Chicago's northwest side in Logan Square. He has served our communities as the constituent service director for 35th ward Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, as a community organizer, and as the 35th ward Democratic Committeeman.
Anthony was elected as Cook County's 8th district commissioner in 2022 with the support of a broad coalition of community leaders, independent political organizations, and progressive labor unions.
As commissioner, Anthony has worked to provide property tax relief to thousands of homeowners, introduced and passed Cook County's Paid Leave ordinance to expand workers' benefits, secured funding to provide dental health services at the Belmont Cragin Health Center, secured $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds for infrastructure improvements on Fullerton Avenue, expanded the scope of the Cook County Public Defender to represent undocumented residents of Cook County in immigration court outside of Chicago, and much more.
Anthony serves on 16 committees and is the vice-chair of the Committee of Labor and the Committee of Contract Compliance. As a commissioner on the Board of Commissioners for the Forest Preserves of Cook County, Anthony has been a strong advocate for environmental protections, rapidly converting toward renewable energy systems, and has facilitated more engagement and access for community members to the Forest Preserve system, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and the Brookfield Zoo Chicago.
Anthony is a proud product of Chicago Public Schools and attended Goethe Elementary School and Lane Tech High School. Anthony is the youngest and the first openly gay Latino commissioner to be elected to the Board of Commissioners.
You can read more about Anthony here:
"My Solidarity Is Not With Corporations. It's With the Working Class, "Jacobin, 2022
"Chicago Socialist Elected Official Anthony Quezada: “We Cannot Demobilize,” Jacobin, 2023
"Resisting Mass Deportation Under Donald Trump," The Nation, 2024
"Cook County Workers’ Support Helps Pass Resolution Reducing Staffing Agency Contract," SEIU 73, 2024
"LGBTQ+ officials canvas with immigration rights information ahead of potential ICE raids," Windy City Times, 2025
