Illinois Primary Results Show Local Political Machine 'Breaking Down'
After serving some 20 years as an elected leader of the obscure-but-jobs-rich Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Terence O'Brien decided last ye...
After serving some 20 years as an elected leader of the obscure-but-jobs-rich Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, Terence O'Brien decided last ye...
Chicago Current | Posted 05.25.2011
Cook County Board hopeful Dorothy Brown is fighting mad about a statement made in an opponent's campaign ad -- and she's taking the matter to court. ...
Chicago Sun-Times | TIM NOVAK | Posted 05.25.2011
For 21 years, Terrence J. O'Brien has been on the board of Cook County's sewage-treatment operation, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Gr...
Paras Bhayani | Posted 05.25.2011
The voters who would have backed Claypool, many of whom live on the North Side and in suburban Cook County, might well be the swing votes in this election.
Chicago Sun-Times | TIM NOVAK | Posted 05.25.2011
Political double agents -- that seems the right phrase to describe some volunteers working on the Cook County Board president's race. Their true alle...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Congressman Danny Davis may be backing away from a run for Cook County Board president in order to keep his seat in Washington. Davis has said repeat...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
In a major disappointment for Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, the county's Democratic leaders today have declined to endorse him for re-elec...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.25.2011
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger downplayed his dismal approval rating in a Tribune/WGN poll Thursday and alleged that the low numbers were pa...
Chicago Sun-Times | MARK J. KONKOL | Posted 05.25.2011
Ask anyone, even Cook County President Todd Stroger's closest pals, and they'll tell you Ol' Todd has bumbled his way through his first term....
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 05.25.2011
The head of an agency that handles wastewater in Cook County is running for county board president....
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.25.2011
The race for the Cook County Board Presidency just got a little more crowded. Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown announced Friday that she...
Chicago News Cooperative | Posted 05.25.2011