It has been said there are only two things certain in this life: taxes and death....
NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 12.01.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Commissioners voted 12 to 5 to override Board President Todd Stroger's controversial veto of a half-penny sales tax rollback. ...
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago
Less than a week after the Cook County Board voted yet again to roll back a portion of the county sales tax, Board President Todd Stroger today delive...
Chicago Sun-Times | LISA DONOVAN | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
A defiant Cook County Board President Todd Stroger says he'll wait until the 11th hour to veto a sales tax rollback commissioners approved this week....
Chicago Tribune | Posted 11.07.2009 | Chicago
Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a measure making it easier for Cook County commissioners to override County Board President Todd Stroger, who has...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.29.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, who vehemently opposes legislation to reduce the number of votes needed to override his vetoes, supported th...
Fox Chicago | Posted 08.24.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger late Thursday night vetoed the County Board's decision earlier this week to cut the county's portion of the s...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
As he previously promised, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger today vetoed the latest attempt by commissioners to rollback last year's sales tax...
Progress Illinois | Adam Doster | Posted 06.20.2009 | Chicago
In an interview this morning on WLS' Don Wade & Roma Morning Show, the former commissioner criticized the county code requirement that a four-fifths m...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Cook County's unpopular 1 percentage point sales tax increase is sticking around, at least for now. County commissioners did not must...
Chicago Tribune | Hal Dardick | Posted 06.19.2009 | Chicago
Cook County commissioners trying to roll back the sales tax increase championed by board President Todd Stroger say they are unlikely to override his ...
Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn | Posted 06.14.2009 | Chicago
Who shoved Illinois Senate Bill 1868 into the grave? It proposes a very simple, very sensible and very timely reform to the state law governing counti...
Daily Herald | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
Two suburban Democratic state lawmakers wants to make it easier for county commissioners to override future vetoes by the county board president....
Chicago Tribune | Posted 06.12.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger today vigorously defended his veto of a sales-tax rollback and attacked his County Board critics, who he said...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Chicago
Thrown to the political wolves by the powerful Daley family, embattled Cook County Board President Todd Stroger now says he might not veto a surprise ...
Chicago Sun-Times | LISA DONOVAN | Posted 12.02.2009 | Chicago