The race to succeed Democratic Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool, a self-styled reformer from the city's North Side, could be the highest-prof...
Paras Bhayani | Posted 10.13.2009 | Chicago
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 | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago
It has long been claimed that Rahm Emanuel wanted to find someone to keep his congressional seat warm while he served as President Obama's chief of st...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
State Rep. John Fritchey announced Tuesday he intends to give up his seat in the state legislature to run to replace retiring Commissioner Forrest Cla...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 08.21.2009 | Chicago
A deal to partially roll back Cook County's highest-in-the-nation sales tax overwhelmingly passed Tuesday, the third time the County Board has voted t...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 07.27.2009 | Chicago
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...
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 07.19.2009 | Chicago
In a major political surprise, Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool has decided not to run for County Board president in next year's election....
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 06.07.2009 | Chicago
One of Stroger's likely challengers is Commissioner Forrest Claypool, who's taking his criticism of Stroger up a notch....
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 06.06.2009 | Chicago
On the radio, Stroger sounded like a kid in third grade who hadn't quite mastered phonics.
Politico | Josh Kraushaar | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley, running to succeed Rahm Emanuel in Congress, received a key endorsement from one of the leading reform-minded f...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 02.13.2009 | Chicago
While the media pack has been overwhelmed covering Messrs. Blagojevich, Burris and Obama, a big local political story has been quietly developing in r...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 01.11.2009 | Chicago
A thoughtful veteran of Illinois politics offers an interesting name for Illinois Senate, one that I hadn't heard before: Forrest Claypool. Claypool ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mark J. Konkol | Posted 01.03.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool was all over WLS-AM (890) -- first on "Don and Roma" and later on "The Erich 'Mancow' Muller Show" -- critic...
Chicago Sun-Times | Rummana Hussain | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago
Just minutes after Cook County Board President Todd Stroger boasted his $2.94 billion proposed budget for 2009 was free of additional taxes, several c...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mark J. Konkol | Posted 12.14.2008 | Chicago
Mr. Claypool is not going to Washington. Cook County Commissioner Forrest Claypool told the Sun-Times today he has decided not to run for Congress to...
The Hill | Aaron Blake | Posted 12.07.2008 | Chicago
It didn't take long for Chicago Democrats to start jumping at the impending open seat in Rep. Rahm Emanuel's (D-Ill.) district. State Rep.-elect Debo...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mark J. Konkol | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
A band of Cook County Commissioners plan to introduce a proposal to create a so-called "circuit-breaker" fund that would give relief to low-income hom...
Chicago Sun-Times | Carol Marin | Posted 11.29.2008 | Chicago
t was Rahm Emanuel's suggestion, actually. "Why," asked the Chicago congressman, "don't you look at this presidential election through a different len...
Daily Herald | Rob Olmstead | Posted 11.08.2008 | Chicago
Cook County sales dropped 11.94% in one month after the county instituted its new tax, new data released Tuesday shows, but just how much of that drop...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mark J. Konkol | Posted 10.19.2008 | Chicago
It took some backroom negotiations for Cook County President Todd Stroger to score enough votes to give his cousin, chief financial officer Donna Dunn...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago