Todd Stroger's Lowest Moments As County Board President (PHOTOS)

On Monday, newly elected Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle was sworn in. Her first day on the job, Preckwinkle fired patronage workers tied to her predecessor and vowed to cut an unpopular county sales tax hike by 2013.

All in a days work.

For years, Cook County has been dogged by scandal under former county board president Todd Stroger. Though his colleagues played nice for the most part at their final meeting together, they will likely never forget the waste and mismanagement that occurred under Stroger's rule.

We rounded up the ten most egregious moments of Stroger's tenure. And with that, we will move on and hope that Preckwinkle will truly be the reformer she campaigned as.