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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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