Posts Tagged ‘ Cook County ’

Cook County Falls Short of New Clean Air Standards

March 8, 2010
By Felicia Dechter
Cook County Falls Short of New Clean Air Standards

Nancy Buckley knows all too well the ill effects of bad air. In the past year, the 44-year-old has been hospitalized three times due to severe asthma attacks. “It’s like somebody sticking a pillow over you and you’re trying to breathe through it,” said Buckley, who lives on the North Side of Chicago. ...
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Dems Duke It Out at Cook County Board President Forum in Rogers Park

January 27, 2010
By Lorraine Swanson
Dems Duke It Out at Cook County Board President Forum in Rogers Park

From Lake Effect News It’s not often that elected county officials visit the West Ridge and Rogers Park backwater, but visit they did, arriving with an entourage of TV news cameras and a prominent TV newscaster to a Democratic candidates’ forum for the Cook County Board President’s seat. Sunday’s forum was organized by a new neighborhood group...
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Preckwinkle Focused While Tresser Takes on Corruption at Cook County Board President Debate on Violence Against Women

January 22, 2010
By Kelsey Duckett

It was a full house, with over 200 women and a handful of men in an audience that was anxious to hear what the next Cook County Board president would do to protect and better serve women and men who are victims of violence. The forum, Violence Against Women, held at Loyola University, is one...
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County Board President Candidates to Focus on Violence Against Females

January 15, 2010
By Chicagotalks

This is a press release from the Chicago Foundation for Women. The event is free and open to everyone. COOK COUNTY BOARD PRESIDENT CANDIDATE FORUM: FOCUSING ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS Thurs. Jan. 21st 6 p.m. (Doors open at 5:30) Loyola University of Chicago, Water Tower Campus 111 E. Pearson St. Beane Hall, 13th floor of Lewis Towers Chicago RSVP: No...
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Chicago Talks Exclusive: Interview with Todd Stroger

January 11, 2010
By Kelsey Duckett
Chicago Talks Exclusive: Interview with Todd Stroger

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has spent the majority of his time over the last year clearing up what he considers misinformation about his platform and defending himself from what he said are daily attacks by the media, as well as attacks by his Democratic competition. Stroger, who was elected as board president on...
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Stroger, O’Brien on the Defensive at Forum as Cook County Board President Candidates Debate

January 9, 2010
By Kelsey Duckett
Stroger, O’Brien on the Defensive at Forum as Cook County Board President Candidates Debate

With the primary less than a month away, the Cook County Board president race is heating up, and the hot button issue of sales tax remains at the forefront. On Saturday, the four Democratic candidates were at each others’ throats in a sometimes contentious forum held at Columbia College Chicago. After each candidate presented their...
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O’Brien: Keeping Lake Michigan Clean?

By Curtis Black, Newstips Editor “It’s my job to clean up our water and keep pollution out of Lake Michigan,” says MWRD president Terrence O’Brien in the first TV ad of his campaign for County Board president (watch it on youtube). “It’s time to clean up Cook County.” In fact, as Newstips reported last April, under O’Brien the...
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Elected Officials Find Common Ground at Recent Event

November 22, 2009
By Joe Gatrell

Officials Say Changes to Pension Systems and Leaner Government are the Answers Not since the impeachment of Governor Rod Blagojevich has there been such bipartisan agreement in Illinois. While there may not be more money coming in the forms of revenue or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the answer to budget crises at every level...
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Strange Tail: the City of Chicago vs. Reggie the Cat

November 3, 2009
By Lake Effect News
Strange Tail: the City of Chicago vs. Reggie the Cat

By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News In the continuing saga of Reggie, Lincoln Square’s most wanted cat, his person, Luise Jochum, schlepped out into the cold on a rainy, October afternoon for Reggie’s administrative hearing at 400 W. Superior. Reggie, the pumpkin-shaped, 20-pound, orange tabby was busted for violating a city ordinance that requires pets...
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