Stroger Tells Peraica 'You Don't Know When To Shut Up' (WATCH)
Things got a little testy at the Cook County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday. First, Commissioner Tony Peraica tried to make the point that pe...
Things got a little testy at the Cook County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday. First, Commissioner Tony Peraica tried to make the point that pe...
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 08.01.2009 | Chicago
You are not alone. That was the message for the estimated 700 Chicago Republicans who packed into the Cubby Bear in Wrigleyville Monday night for an ...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 06.13.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica defied Board President Todd Stroger's claim that his critics have no solutions to the county's budget woes by of...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 06.07.2009 | Chicago
Riverside police are investigating whether shots fired into a West Suburban home next door to Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica's family may have ...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.24.2009 | Chicago
On a day when the Chicago Tribune revealed that Todd Stroger's version of the events leading up to his firing of patronage worker Tony Cole didn't mat...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.19.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin is calling on Board President Todd Stroger to resign following the abrupt departure of County Chief Financial...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mark J. Konkol | Posted 04.05.2009 | Chicago
Last month, [Cook County Commissioner Tony] Peraica started posting short messages -- called "tweets" -- during board meetings about everything from c...
The Huffington Post | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago
Fifth Congressional District candidate Victor Forys reached for an extreme comparison in a recent press release attacking rival candidate Mike Quigley...
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...
Posted 12.06.2008 | Chicago
"Democrat Anita Alvarez won her bid Tuesday to become the first Hispanic and first woman state's attorney in Cook County, handing Republican Tony Per...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago
I waited patiently to see if, when times got tough, Alvarez would stoop to pandering for votes based on her ethnicity so I could tisk, tisk.
Chicago Tribune | Monique Garcia | Posted 12.04.2008 | Chicago
The Democratic and Republican candidates for Cook County state's attorney delivered their closing arguments Sunday, visiting churches in high-crime Ch...
Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 11.28.2008 | Chicago
If money talks in the race for state's attorney like it does in most other campaigns, expect to hear a triumphant roar from Democrat Anita Alvarez and...
Chicago Sun-Times | Rummana Hussain | Posted 11.24.2008 | Chicago
he three Cook County state's attorney hopefuls weighed in on the recent federal indictment of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge in a televised deb...
Posted 11.06.2008 | Chicago
Chicago chef Stephanie Izard asked Republican Cook County Board member and state's attorney candidate Tony Peraica to stop using the Top Chef winner's...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 10.17.2008 | Chicago
At their very first debate, Cook County state's attorney candidates skipped the honeymoon period and immediately blasted each other as political hacks...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 10.07.2008 | Chicago
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has asked Republican Cook County state's attorney candidate Tony Peraica to stop passing out a campaign flier that lo...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago