Articles filed under County Board
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Campaign quiet, but family says Lake Co. board hopeful will be backSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - She has a website announcing her campaign, a phone number people can call to donate, and a list of issues she is looking to address when running for Lake County Board Di...
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Opponents try to tie Preckwinkle to Cook corruptionSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Candidates for Cook County Board president attacked what they said was a culture of government corruption, with Republican Roger Keats and Green Party nominee Tom Tresse...
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Cook County 15th District hopefuls talk sales taxAug 31, 2010 11:00 pm - Businesses owners from Cook County towns, including Palatine and Hanover Park, have protested the county's sales-tax increase over the past two years. They blamed the in...
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To golf or not to golf? Dist. 15 hopefuls weigh in on Fort SheridanAug 26, 2010 11:00 pm - A Democratic candidate for the Lake County Forest Preserve District board says the county should consider paying off Town of Fort Sheridan residents rather than building...
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DuPage Co. chairman candidates weigh in on water costsAug 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Invoices related to the DuPage Water Commission's financial crisis didn't come only to the agency's headquarters in Elmhurst. Some municipal taxpayers also helped foot a...
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Money not flowing into Lake Co.'s 15th District raceJul 28, 2010 11:00 pm - The three candidates running for the 15th District seat on the Lake County Board haven't exactly been lighting the world on fire when it comes to fundraising. Incumbent ...
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Cook Board makes separate health board permanentJun 01, 2010 11:00 pm - The Cook County Board voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to make the independent board overseeing the Health & Hospitals System permanent. The board voted by a seemingly veto-...
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Preckwinkle says no sales tax repeal until 2012, at bestMay 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Chicago Alderman Toni Preckwinkle said Wednesday she will be unable to repeal the sales tax increase she has targeted on the campaign trail until 2012, or later, if elec...
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Cook Co. board fails to topple Stroger veto of hiring freezeMay 18, 2010 11:00 pm - The Cook County Board failed to override President Todd Stroger's veto of a hiring freeze Tuesday when two co-sponsors of the measure abandoned it in the final roll call...
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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...