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Making it Official

Same-sex couples win registry rights in Cook County

By Christopher Hayes

After nearly a decade of advocating for official recognition of gay couples, Chicagoans John Pennycuff and Robert Castillo wanted to be sure they were the first to sign up for Cook County’s new domestic partner registry October 1. “The only the way to do that was to get there at midnight,” Pennycuff says. “So we watched the Cubs game and… return to article

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