Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer dies at 51, family says

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A Cook County board member from the West Side, Dennis Deer last summer successfully underwent a rare flipped-organ double lung transplant.

Cook County Board Commissioner Dennis Deer, 2nd district, is first in line to file his re-election petitions at Cook County Administration Building on Nov. 27, 2017. Deer died on Sunday, according to a family statement. Dennis Deer, a Cook County commissioner from the West Side for seven years, died Sunday, according to a statement posted by Deer’s family

In the weeks following the surgery and again this spring, Deer participated in county board meetings remotely. He was absent at the most recent board meeting earlier this month.

 

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