A News report from Lake Effect News A Cook County judge handed down guilty verdicts in the bench trial of two political workers for Ald. Berny Stone on charges that they had allegedly tampered with absentee ballots stemming from the 2007 aldermanic race in Chicago’a 50th Ward. Anish Eapen, the former ward Streets and...
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A news report from Chicagoist.com Former alderman Isaac “Ike” Carothers, who pleaded guilty to bribery charges earlier this year, was sentenced today to 28 months in federal prison. Carothers has been ordered to report August 23 to begin serving his sentence. While which prison he serves time at ultimately rests with the Bureau of Prisons, the...
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ChicagoTalks.org doesn’t have a regular editorial feature; however, we are going to introduce an “Occasional Opinion” feature as our cool spring begins to slide into summer and fall into election season. If you are interested in submitting an editorial about Chicago-centric issues, please contact us. We may publish editorials or highlight and link to...
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Judge Ursula Walowski works at a pace that can only be described as frenetic. A judge in Cook County’s Domestic Violence Court, Walowski sets bonds, dismisses cases and imposes her judgments so swiftly that simply following along can become dizzying. With so many cases on her docket, a visitor to her courtroom may wonder:...
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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. “Treatments...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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