Last week was the launch of Cook County's new Open Data website. The website makes an unprecedented amount of County information available to the public, all available with just a few clicks of a mouse.

The much-anticipated Cook County redesigned open data website was launched last week -- let the floodgate of citizen activism begin.

Two Cook County commissioners lashed out Tuesday against a County Board mandate requiring them to join the majority of the county's employees in takin...

Occasionally, this stuff gets personal, real personal. That's because though I typically write about people I know, or have worked with, and about e...



I realize that simple band-aid solutions won't fix broad, systemic problems. A key step towards reform in any government requires taking an honest and thorough look at the current budgets and programs.

Members of Mayor Emanuel's newly appointed TIF panel will soon roll up their sleeves to start rebuilding city policy on TIFs. This is a welcome development.

It was a series of moves that saw a former Chicago alderman go from having a job on the Cook County payroll to losing it to getting another county job...

Former Cook County Board President gained a reputation for misappropriation of county funds, from using government credit cards for dry cleaning to bu...

Like thousands of Illinoisans who have lost their jobs, former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has applied for unemployment benefits.But newl...

On Monday, newly elected Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle was sworn in. Her first day on the job, Preckwinkle fired patronage workers tied...

A former top aide to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger may be sprung from jail as early as Thursday afternoon. Carla Oglesby's parents withd...

A collegial atmosphere, cut with a few good-natured zingers, presided over the last meeting of the current Cook County Board, as a few prominent commi...

First there were the hundreds of thousands of dollars in unsupervised no-bid contracts he gave to friends and allies. Then, there were the raises duri...

The transition of power at the Cook County Board President's office has gone from ugly to uglier, with some harsh words at yesterday's regular board m...

Lame duck Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's administration rang up a $13,000 tab for new furniture in recent months, according to county docu...

In the nine months since his primary defeat rendered him a lame duck, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has violated county decrees, hired cron...

Cook County has been dominated by Democrats for decades. But Roger Keats insists he has a chance in November to be the first Republican in 41 years el...

Chicago alderman Toni Preckwinkle has officially become the first woman to be elected Cook County Board President. With 80 percent of Cook County rep...

UPDATE: County Board President Stroger asked Carla Oglesby for her resignation, and got it, following her court hearing Tuesday morning. Stroger...

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger violated a ban on political hiring more than 150 times since the start of 2008, the attorney at the center of...

Cook County board members must have got an earful from their municipal constituents. Because after approving a contract for two red light camera su...

Todd Stroger's staff bent or broke county hiring rules to put supporters on payroll and fire naysayers, according to a scathing report released Tuesda...

Pity Todd Stroger, the embattled Cook County Board chief who, having served the machine faithfully, is now being tossed under the bus as voters turn their ire on tax-happy politicians.

Stroger wants to appoint local lawyer and government lobbyist Vincent Williams to the county's Zoning Board of Appeals. Cook County commissioners typi...

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger handed a $54,000 raise to his chief financial officer, one of several recent salary sweeteners that prompted ...