Articles filed under County Board
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Stroger vetoes Cook hiring freezeMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has vetoed a countywide hiring freeze approved in an attempt to rein in his lame-duck spending. The hiring freeze, which also fr...
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Stroger under new scrutiny after top aides get raisesMay 07, 2010 11:00 pm - The hot water surrounding Cook County Board President Todd Stroger got hotter - and deeper - late this week with the discovery he had awarded raises to top aides Jaye Mo...
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Cook GOP candidates nix National Guard in ChicagoApr 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Republican candidates for Cook County president and sheriff proposed Thursday using the sheriff's police rather than the National Guard to quell violence in Chicago. Ear...
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Stroger employee gets paid for county contractApr 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Cook County Board President Todd Stroger paid $24,975 to a private company owned by new Deputy Chief of Staff Carla Oglesby just days before she started her county job, ...
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Keats pushes reforms, slaps Madigan, BerriosApr 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Roger Keats, a Republican candidate for Cook County Board president, on Tuesday came out in favor of strong reforms limiting lobbying by elected officials. Labeling Illi...
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GOP presses issue on Cook tax bills, electionApr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Cook County Republicans tried Thursday to extend the controversy over tax bills and the general election by calling on the U.S. attorney's office to investigate the cozy...
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Lake County Board candidate facing chargesMar 25, 2010 11:00 pm - A Lake County Board candidate on Friday called his arrest earlier this month "nonsense." David M. Serdar, a Libertyville resident who is the Green Party candidate for th...
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Keats comes out swinging with five-point platformMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Wilmette's Roger Keats launched his general-election campaign as Republican nominee for Cook County Board president Monday by labeling his Democrat opponent, Hyde Park C...
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Preckwinkle commits to debates, reformsMar 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Toni Preckwinkle committed to debates against her opponents in the fall general election for president of the Cook County Board and laid out a pro-business agenda based ...
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Stroger quits father's party post, done with politicsMar 02, 2010 10:00 pm - Cook County President Todd Stroger has quit his post as Democratic committeeman in Chicago's 8th Ward, and he all but announced his retirement from politics after today'...