Cook County Opinion
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Endorsement: Britton for Cook County Board Dist. 14Oct 26, 2022 7:07 am - This endorsement is a consensus opinion of the Daily Herald Editorial Board. Democrat Scott Britton is running to retain the 14th District seat on the Cook County B...
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Our endorsements for Cook County Board primary racesJun 10, 2022 6:34 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 12:19 pm - 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 28, 2021 4:46 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 21, 2021 4:40 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 21, 2021 9:11 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...
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Editorial: Cook County must maintain its budget discipline in allocating federal relief fundsOct 08, 2021 8:34 am - There is no disputing that much has been done in Cook County government in recent years to improve the management of spending and revenues and to professionalize the ent...
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Editorial: Getting tough on violent crimeJul 15, 2021 1:00 am - (Second in an editorial series) When she ran for reelection last year, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx blamed the pandemic for the rise in the number of cases of v...