Larry Rogers, Jr.

Larry R. Rogers Jr. (born 1967/1968) He was raised by his divorced mother, Judith, in California.

Rogers has won numerous multimillion dollar jury awards and settlements. His own father is a founding and title partner at the firm.

Since 2005, Rogers has been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer.

Rogers has been involved in the American Association for Justice, American Trial Lawyers Association, Association for Professional Development in the African American Community, Illinois State Bar Association, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. He served as vice chairperson and coordinating counsel of minority fairs for the Chicago Bar Association from 1998 to 1999, and as chairperson of its Young Lawyers Division in 1998.

Political career Cook County Board of Review In 2004, Rogers challenged incumbent Robert Shaw in the Democratic primary for his 3rd district seat on the Cook County Board of Review. Rogers, a political novice and first time candidate, had been recruited by James Meeks and Jesse Jackson Jr. to oust Shaw, a political rival of Jackson's. Despite having been considered a political newcomer, Rogers won the Democratic primary, and won the general election, unopposed.

Rogers would win reelection in 2008, 2012, 2014, and 2018. With the exception of 2008, he was unopposed in all of these years.

In his first two years on the board, many reforms he proposed were blocked by its other two members, Democrat Joseph Berrios and Republican Maureen Murphy. In 2006, Rogers supported Democrat Brendan Houlihan's ultimately successful bid to unseat Murphy in her Republican-leaning district.

In August 2010, Chicago magazine made public that documents reveal that Rogers and Houlihan had expressed concern in May 2009 about how Berrios' staff had been processing tax appeals championed Paul Froehlich.

In 2016, an ethics probe was launched to investigate whether Rogers had profited when his law firm sued the county government, which would be in violation of provisions in the county code.

In August 2018, Chicago Tribune exposed that Rogers had taken excessive campaign contributions. The Cook County Ethics Board fined Rogers and demanded that he return $44,800. In February 2026, the organization Injustice Watch published a profile which flagged ethics concerns about campaign donations that Rogers and his fellow Board of Review commissioners had accepted in 2017 and 2018 from real estate professionals with business before the board.

Prospective 2011 mayoral campaign In 2011, some had urged Rogers to run for mayor, but he ultimately declined to. In October 2010, the Chicago Coalition for Mayor, seeking to find a "consensus" black candidate for mayor, named him and Carol Moseley Braun as the finalists in its search.

Nonprofit and community work From 1997 to 1999, Rogers served on the board of directors of the Robert Taylor Boys & Girls Club of Chicago.

At the time he was first elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Rogers and his family lived in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.

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