OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS 31 



PETER REINBERG 



PRESIDENT OF THE FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK COUNTY 



By election as President of the Board of Commissioners 

 of Cook County in 1914 Peter Reinberg was put into a posi- 

 tion where he automatically became the first President of the 

 Forest Preserve District when the law creating the district went 

 into effect. The boundaries of the County and the District are 

 co-extensive and under the law the county commissioners act as 

 the district commissioners without additional compensation. 



Had the voters' discrimination been utilized specifically 

 in the selection of the first president of the district a happier 

 choice could not have been made. Mr. Reinberg, a man who 

 has made flower culture and horticulture his life business, 

 was peculiarly fitted for the post of chief executive in the 

 upbuilding of this great governmental structure with forest 

 preservation as its paramount aim. 



Furthermore Mr. Reinberg stepped into the office with 

 wide experience in the fulfillment of public trust and manage- 

 ment of public affairs. His years as Alderman from the 

 Twenty Sixth Ward, most of which were spent in that most 

 laborious, most trying and most important council berth, 

 the chairman of the Local Transportation committee, had 

 well equipped him for this even bigger task. 



In addition he was for three years the directing head of 

 the City of Chicago's mammoth public school system, another 

 spot where executive genius is indispensable. 



As President of the District Mr. Reinberg has assumed 

 the duties of chairman of the Plan committee, a real force in 

 the district organization, and has acted as member ex-officio 

 of all standing and special committees. 



