Chicago’s
Howard Brown Health Center names new CEO

Chicago's Howard Brown Health Center, which focuses on providing health care services to the city's gay and lesbian population as well as HIV-positive Chicagoans, has named Michael C. Cook to serve as the agency's president and CEO effective October 24, the Chicago Free Press reports. Cook currently serves as executive director of Chicago's Interfaith House and is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union's national board and the governing board of the Chicago Continuum on Care. He is a former president of the Illinois chapter of the ACLU and as board chairman of Chicago House. (Advocate.com)