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Indicted former lawmaker on way to winning state House race
Tribune reporterIndicted former state Rep. Derrick Smith was on his way Tuesday to writing a new chapter in Illinois political notoriety by regaining his House seat just months after being impeached and expelled over his arrest on federal bribery charges. Smith declared...Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Elections, Corporate Crime, Pat Quinn, Todd H. Stroger
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Election Day in Obama's neighborhood: Reporters, security and basketball
Tribune reportersIn the Kenwood neighborhood, President Barack Obama's neighbors went about their daily business today -- voting, running errands, and entertaining children who were off from school – as presidential security teams and an international news corps...Tags: Elections, Sasha Obama, Sidwell Friends School, Voting, Schools
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Polling place changes cause Election Day confusion
Long lines aren't the only nuisance for some Chicagoland voters this Election Day. About 20 percent of Cook County's polling places have changed since the last election, which sent uninformed voters to the wrong place. Compounding the confusion was...
Tags: James Allen, Elections, Polls, Computer Science, Cook County Government
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Preckwinkle tweaks budget to win votes
Tribune reporterCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is making compromises on new taxes she’s proposed as she tries to lock up the votes needed to pass next year’s budget. On Tuesday, Preckwinkle announced a tweak to her initial proposal to charge an...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Elections, Pat Quinn, Budgets and Budgeting
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Preckwinkle proposes tax hikes, including on cigarettes
WGN NewsChicago will have the second highest cigarette tax in the country if Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has her way in next year's budget. Preckwinkle proposed on Thursday to raise the tax by one dollar. This would bring the cost of a pack of...Tags: Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Government
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Preckwinkle asks red-light insider to resign county post
Tribune reporterCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle says today she wants a City Hall insider caught up in an ethics probe to resign from the obscure county board job she gave him last year. Preckwinkle still hasn't said who recommended that she appoint John...Tags: Toni Preckwinkle, Chicago City Hall, Cook County Government
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Cook might bet on taxing slot machines, video gambling
Tribune reportersCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is considering a new tax on every slot machine and video poker game in the county as she puts the final touches on the budget proposal she will present Thursday, aides said. Owners of gambling devices would be...Tags: Gambling, Des Plaines, Toni Preckwinkle, Pat Quinn, Crime, Law and Justice
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Taxing bullets criminal
For urban politicians, gun control is like the bar in "Cheers" — a place of refuge they can seek out whenever things aren't going well. Things aren't going well on the crime front in Chicago, with homicides up 25 percent this year. So what else...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Personal Weapon Control, Rahm Emanuel, Criminals, Laws
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Preckwinkle hospital board shakeup leads to resignation
Clout StreetCook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s shakeup of the hospital board has led a member to leave. Benn Greenspan, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, submitted his resignation Friday, citing “...Tags: Ansell Limited, Toni Preckwinkle, Todd H. Stroger, Cook County Government, Health
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Cook County ethics chairman resigns
WGN NewsThe news came as a surprise. After 19 years on the Cook County Board of Ethics, the Chairman John Pikarski resigned just one day after WGN-TV, Chicago Magazine, and the Better Government Association raised questions about his own ethics. For nearly...Tags: Better Government Association, Chicago, Elections, Values, Ethics
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Preckwinkle criticized for bullet tax idea
Clout StreetDemocratic Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle faced criticism today after floating the idea of taxing guns and bullets to help balance the budget. Commissioner Timothy Schneider said he’s worried such a tax would do little other than hurt...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Toni Preckwinkle, Larry Suffredin, Gregg Goslin, Timothy O. Schneider
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Former medical district commissioner charged in $3.7 million fraud
A former commissioner of the Illinois Medical District, his wife and two associates used several companies to steal $3.7 million or more in state money meant to fund medical programs for diseases like cancer and AIDS, prosecutors said today. South Side...
Tags: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, AIDS, Soldier Field, Prosecution, Cook County Government
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