Cook County Clerk

Two years after Cook County launched a search engine to help people with foreclosed homes or businesses claim the profits earned in their property sal...

As Americans, we are proud of the strides we have made over time to extend the voting franchise to all citizens, however halting these steps may have been.

There was a time when nobody would order a birth certificate at Cook County Vital Records unless they packed their favorite book and a lunch. But times have changed.

Judicial retention races are a paradox, where too much democracy means no democracy at all. Not a single judge has lost a retention election since 1990.

There is no reason why we cannot bring our lobbyist records into the 21st Century. We can and should do more to connect the dots between million dollar contracts and lobbyists who stand to profit from their approval.