Shining Light On County Lobbyists
UPDATE: The Lobbyist Sunshine Initiative passed the finance committee unanimously on Thursday. It goes to a full vote at the Board's Oct. 6 meeting. ...
UPDATE: The Lobbyist Sunshine Initiative passed the finance committee unanimously on Thursday. It goes to a full vote at the Board's Oct. 6 meeting. ...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 11.14.2009 | Chicago
Cook County lobbyists would have to disclose new clients within two days of landing them under new ethics rules proposed Monday by county Clerk David ...
Chicago Public Radio | Ammad Omar | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Clerk David Orr says residents shouldn't be fooled into collecting signatures for candidates promising them a job down the line....
Associated Press | Posted 03.22.2009 | Chicago
A suburban Chicago man barred from running for elective office because he's homeless has filed an appeal of the decision to keep him off the ballot. ...
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 03.20.2009 | Chicago
SCROLL DOWN FOR THE LATEST UPDATES Barely a month after being sworn in as a U.S. Senator, Roland Burris is being called on to resign by the Chicago T...
Chicago Sun-Times | Natasha Korecki | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago
A planned special election to fill the congressional seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama's new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has hit a sn...
Chicago Public Radio | Mike Rhee | Posted 12.11.2008 | Chicago
The city of Chicago could save money by transferring its election board's responsibilties to Cook County. Mayor Richard Daley says he's open to the id...
Kenny Ausubel | Posted 12.11.2008 | Green
We stand at the threshold of a singular opportunity in the human experiment: To re-imagine how to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.
Associated Press | Posted 12.04.2008 | Chicago
Election officials counting ballots throughout Illinois say the state has set a new record of more than 821,000 early votes cast. Authorities say th...
CBS 2 | Posted 11.30.2008 | Chicago
On the last day of early voting, officials are reporting that more than 400,000 people in the city and suburban Cook County have already turned out to...
CBS 2 | Joanie Lum and Mike Flannery | Posted 11.30.2008 | Chicago
Illinois voters who don't make it to the polls for early voting on Thursday will have to wait until Election Day to cast their ballots. As CBS 2's J...
Chicago Reader | Ben Joravsky | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago
Cook County Clerk David Orr's annual TIF report is due out tomorrow, and the news is all bleak. On the one hand, the city's tax increment financing d...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago
More than 544,000 people have voted early in the Chicago area, the Tribune reports: By the time early voting is over Thursday, 697,000 people are e...
STNG | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago
CHICAGO (STNG) -- Chicago and suburban Cook County broke their respective single-day Early Voting records Monday, according to the Cook County Board ...
The New York Times | Karen Ann Cullotta | Posted 11.20.2008 | Chicago
School officials and parents across the nation are turning an increasingly critical eye on the time-honored tradition of voters' casting ballots in th...
Progress Illinois | Angela Caputo | Posted 11.16.2008 | Chicago
It appears that the GOP believe so strongly in their false claims that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is out to com...
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago
Political parties and interest groups across the country are working overtime to register voters for November's election. That goes even for Illinois,...
Posted 10.04.2008 | Chicago
Cook County residents will be able to vote on whether the governor and other statewide elected officials can be recalled, thanks to an advisory refere...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago