Cook County Opinion
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Endorsement: Sean Morrison for Cook County Board Dist. 17Oct 19, 2022 1:00 am - This endorsement is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. The race for the 17th District seat of the Cook County Board - representing mostly near...
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Endorsement: Kevin Morrison for Cook County Board Dist. 15Oct 19, 2022 1:00 am - This endorsement is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. Kevin Morrison is seeking his second term representing the 15th District on the Cook Co...
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Our endorsement for Cook County Board District 9: Maggie TrevorOct 19, 2022 1:00 am - This endorsement is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. The race to replace longtime Rebpublican Cook County Board commissioner Peter Silvestri...
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Our endorsements for Cook County Board primary racesJun 09, 2022 1:00 am - District 9, Democrats: Trevor The Democratic primary for Cook County commissioner of the 9th District - which includes parts of Elk Grove Village, Wheeling and Pala...
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Endorsement: Preckwinkle for Cook County Board presidentJun 08, 2022 1:00 am - This endorsement is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. If you're a Cook County Democrat, do you want your next County Board president to be a ...
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Endorsement: Kaegi for Democrats as Cook County assessorJun 08, 2022 1:00 am - This endorsement is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. Fritz Kaegi has not made a lot of friends in high places during his single term as Cook...
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Zorn: The long litany of Foxx falsehoods on SmollettDec 27, 2021 12:00 am - The vast understatement of Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx's admission that she "didn't handle (the Smollett case) well" in an October 2019 interview with Axios ca...
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Editorial: State's Attorney Foxx, our non-prosecuting prosecutorDec 25, 2021 1:00 pm - If you ever sit in on a news conference or interview with Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx, she makes a good presentation - professional, unflappable, polished. And...
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Eric Zorn: What's next for actor Jussie Smollett and prosecutor Kim Foxx?Dec 20, 2021 4:30 am - EDITOR'S NOTE: The following items are excerpted from Eric Zorn's “Picayune Sentinel” daily newsletter of Dec. 16. Now what for Jussie Smollett? A Cook County ...
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'I am tired. We are tired': A Letter from a COVID-19 ICU doctorOct 20, 2021 1:00 am - I am tired. We are tired. March 18th, 2020, is a day I will never forget. We opened our first COVID-19 unit and I began admitting patients with suspected COVID pneumonia...