Ted Cox
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Cook Co. board crawls toward 2010 budgetNov 19, 2009 10:00 pm - The Cook County Board of Commissioners moved toward adopting a 2010 budget today by voting to cut spending by $32.5 million, accounting for a half-cent on the dollar sal...
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Cook Co. budget on target for voteNov 17, 2009 10:00 pm - The eye of the hurricane passed over the Cook County Board at its regular meeting Wednesday. Yet with board President Todd Stroger still expected to veto a 0.5 percent c...
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Cook Co. Board votes to cut sales tax; majority should be veto-proofNov 17, 2009 10:00 pm - The Cook County Board of Commissioners voted to cut the sales tax a half cent on the dollar by a seemingly veto-proof 12-5 margin today. The final vote came at the end o...
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Barrington scout pursues passion by playing himself in 'The Blind Side'Nov 17, 2009 10:00 pm - Barrington's Tom Lemming is one of the most renowned football scouts in the world, the man credited with creating what is now the vast industry devoted to ranking high-s...
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Chicago school board chief commits suicideNov 15, 2009 10:00 pm - The body of Chicago Public Schools President Michael Scott was discovered on the banks of the Chicago River downtown before dawn Monday morning after he apparently died ...
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Commissioners plan new attack on Cook sales taxNov 15, 2009 10:00 pm - Armed with a new, lower requirement to override a veto, Cook County Board members will try again this week to roll back the 1 percentage-point increase in the sales tax ...
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Cook Co. homeowners to see assessments fallNov 13, 2009 10:00 pm - Having just received their eye-popping Cook County property-tax bills, Wheeling Township homeowners are the latest in suburban Cook County to be receiving a piece of mai...
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CFL passes on Cook prez endorsementNov 12, 2009 10:00 pm - The Chicago Federation of Labor opted today to make no endorsement in the Cook County Board president's race and held off on endorsing commissioners, saying it can't sup...
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Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson look to recapture the magic for Channel 2Nov 11, 2009 10:00 pm - Together again for the first time in the WBBM Channel 2 newsroom: Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson. News Director Jeff Kiernan announced today that Kurtis and Jacobson, t...
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Minds behind 'ATHF' at Lakeshore TheaterNov 11, 2009 10:00 pm - Dave Willis and Dana Snyder, two of the minds -- and voices -- behind "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming, put on a live performance...