Cook County
Recent News About Cook County
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Judicial Integrity Project representative: 'Political donations can lead to issues of judicial integrity'
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker donated $1 million to the campaigns of Illinois Supreme Court candidates Mary O’Brien and Elizabeth Rochford, according to Center Square.
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Marter says Chicago debt per taxpayer means 'we need voters to step up'
Kendall County GOP Chairman James Marter said that Chicagoans are overtaxed, and voters "need to step up" in response to a Truth in Accounting report, which gave the city an "F" grade in its latest Financial State of the Cities report.
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Rezin: 'My heart goes out to the family, friends and fellow officers of Chicago Police Officer Andres Vasquez Lasso'
A Chicago Police officer who was shot and killed on the Southwest Side of the city has been identified as Officer Andres Vasquez Lasso, the Chicago Tribune reported on March 2.
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Pritzker undecided on whether to support a Chicago mayoral candidate
Former Chicago Public Schools chief Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson are the two finalists who will be facing off in the upcoming mayoral race.
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Marter: 'I don’t see a reason to even remotely put us in the threat of litigation'
James Marter, Oswego Village Board Trustee recently shared that he has no problem with allowing more apartments across the Village on Feb. 15.
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Stoller: 'If the Governor gets what he wants, our state will have increased its spending by more than $10 billion'
Sen. Win Stoller blasted Gov. J.B. Pritzker's latest budget proposal on Feb. 20 claiming it is just more of the same kind of reckless spending that has put the state in trouble.
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Pritzker: 'There are a lot of hoops to run through in the General Assembly for this to ever get to me'
Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently hinted that he doesn’t expect to see any paperwork tied to a new Chicago Bears stadium in Arlington Heights landing on his desk anytime soon.
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Stoller: 'The purpose of being here today is to get to know Rochelle'
Sen. Win Stoller (R-Peoria) recently visited Rochelle for the first time since redistricting made the Hub City area part of his district.
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Marter: DCFS 'needs to be torn apart and rebuilt'
Kendall County’s Republican Party Chairman James Marter is dismayed by the allegations in a civil rights lawsuit filed against the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and is calling for an agency overhaul.
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Pritzker to end COVID-19 emergency declarations in May but warns virus 'has not disappeared’
Illinois is one of eight states to still have COVID-19 disaster declarations in place nearly three years after the pandemic started. That will change in May.
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Pritzker's office: 'The assault weapons ban is the law of Illinois'
The Pritzker Administration believes the dozens of sheriffs offices across Illinois that have promised to refuse to enforce the state's new law banning semiautomatic weapons and other firearms is "political grandstanding."
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Stoller: 'Illinois Democrats are in a race to pass the most extreme abortion laws in the nation'
Illinois state Sen. Win Stoller (R-Germantown Hills) has criticized his Democrat colleagues and their push for "extreme abortion laws" after an expansion bill was passed last week.
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Batinick: 'Wages aren’t keeping up with inflation, but we’ve locked in inflation bumps each July'
Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) is blasting Democratic legislators' vote to grant themselves a 16% pay raise during the recent lame-duck session.
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Oswego Village Board trustee Marter: 'You have had this crusade against rentals and it’s really frustrating'
At its Jan. 5 meeting of the Oswego Village Board of Trustees, Trustee James Marter explained his vote to approve a measure that sets targets for establishing a diversified housing stock in town.
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From Chicago City Wire
Analysis: Chicago metro area has highest foreclosure rates among Illinois urban areas
Kendall County in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) recorded the highest foreclosure rate for Illinois MSAs during the first quarter of the year, according to an ATTOM Data Solutions analysis of property data.
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Public employee tally: Bottom 25 counties in Illinois
Kendall is among the Illinois counties that employ the fewest government workers per capita, according to 2016 Illinois State Comptroller financial reports.