Editing McHenry County, Illinois (section)

==Government==
McHenry County government is based primarily out of Woodstock, the county seat. The McHenry County Government Center, located on the north end of Woodstock along [[Illinois Route 47]], features county offices as well as judicial facilities.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}

The current Chairman of the McHenry County Board is Michael Buehler, who was first elected in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mchenrycountyil.gov/departments/county-board/meet-your-county-board-members/michael-buehler}} </ref>

The current Sheriff of McHenry County, Illinois is Robb Tadelmann, who was first elected in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mchenrysheriff.org/about-us/the-sheriff.aspx|title=McHenry County Sheriff|website=mchenrysheriff.org|access-date=September 22, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030055659/http://mchenrysheriff.org/about-us/the-sheriff.aspx|archive-date=October 30, 2016}}</ref>

===Politics===
As one of the [[Yankee]]-settled and prosperous outer suburban "collar counties", McHenry County was a stronghold of the Free Soil Party in its first few elections, being one of nine Illinois counties to give a plurality to Martin van Buren in 1848. McHenry County has voted for the Republican candidate for president in all but two elections since [[1852 United States presidential election|1852]] ([[History of the Republican Party (United States)|the Republican party was founded in 1854]]), the first being when “Bull Moose” candidate and former Republican president [[Theodore Roosevelt]] won the county [[1912 United States presidential election|in 1912]].<ref name="PGyard"/> Recent elections in 2004 and 2000 saw [[George W. Bush]] capture 59.72% and 58.5% of the county vote, respectively. In [[2008 United States presidential election|2008]], [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Barack Obama]], then a Senator from Illinois, captured McHenry County with 52% of the vote—the first time a Democrat had carried the county since 1852.<ref name="PGyard">The Political Graveyard; [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MH-votes.html McHenry County, Illinois] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206170635/http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MH-votes.html |date=February 6, 2012 }}</ref> In the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012 presidential election]], Obama only received 44% of the vote whereas Republican [[Mitt Romney]] captured 53% of the vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mcvote.com|title=mcvote|publisher=Mcvote.com|access-date=December 7, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217132737/http://mcvote.com/|archive-date=December 17, 2014}}</ref> In the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]], Republican [[Donald Trump]] received 50% of the vote whereas Democratic [[Hillary Clinton]] received 42% of the vote. In [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]], [[Joe Biden]] came within 3% of carrying the county for the Democrats for the second time since 1852. McHenry County is now the only collar county that still leans Republican.

No person with significant ties to McHenry County has ever been elected to the United States Congress or Illinois governorship.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020|reason=This claim needs a reliable source; Illinois has been a state since 1819 and McHenry County was founded in 1836, and has had a substantial population for many years. It seems unlikely no one with ties to it has ever been elected to Congress.}} The mother of U.S. President Gerald Ford, [[Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford|Dorothy Ayer Gardner]], was born in [[Harvard, Illinois|Harvard]] in 1892.

{{PresHead|place=McHenry County, Illinois|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=May 7, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323225526/https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|archive-date=March 23, 2018}}</ref>}}
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