Jaylanie Aliyah Rodriguez was the first baby born in Cook County in 2016 – one minute after midnight at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge – weighing 5 lbs, 10 oz.
She's also the first baby for her mother, Aliyah Rodriguez, who is unmarried, 15 and a sophomore in high school. Jaylanie's young mother plans to finish high school and someday become a police officer.