Longtime Cook County Commissioner Deborah Sims says she will step down next year, calls for another Black woman to replace her

Deborah Sims, a Democrat from Posen, has represented some south suburbs as well as parts of the South Side of Chicago since 1994. The 5th District’s commissioner’s decision to step down, first reported by the Sun-Times, comes after another veteran Cook County Board member, Evanston Democrat Larry Suffredin, also said he won’t run for reelection in 2022.