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The umbrella organization for Chicago unions is backing Pat Hynes for Cook County assessor against incumbent Fritz Kaegi in the March Democratic primary and taking sides in various contested county board races.

The Chicago Federation of Labor announced its endorsement of Hynes and other Cook County candidates in a Wednesday morning release, saying the Lyons Township Assessor and a former employee of the assessor’s office “knows how to get the job done.”

Hynes is the nephew of former county assessor Thomas Hynes and worked in the county assessor’s office between 1998 and 2021, when he quit at the tail end of Kaegi’s first term.

The CFL did not endorse Kaegi in the 2018 or 2022 races, either.

After backing Kaegi last cycle, the Cook County

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