CHICAGO (CBS) --Cook County Board President Todd Stroger received a standing ovation from county commissioners Wednesday as he presided over his final board meeting. Stroger lost the November election ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) - It might be a bumpier-than-expected transition when Cook County Board President-elect Toni Preckwinkle takes over for sitting Board President Todd Stroger next month. There are ...

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger listened impassively Thursday as his top remaining aide said there has been “no misuse of county assets” related to the mysterious forced resignation of the ...

Five nurses at Stroger Hospital could be fired or face other discipline for what they say was a Halloween-themed union march last month that the county hospital system said included delivering ...

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In early August, a series of shootings in Chicago left 41 people wounded and seven dead in a single day. Most of the shootings were on the city’s South and West sides, sending many of the wounded to ...

Junior Parker, the Memphis bluesman famous for ’50s and ’60s hits like “Mystery Train” and “Feelin’ Good,” needed someone to talk to when he was on the road. So he ratchet-jawed with Bob Stroger via ...

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First, Todd Stroger, the Cook County Board president, lost the backing of the mostly white Democratic power structure that he and his father had served for decades. And now, not long after his failed ...

Mayor Richard M. Daley’s neutrality in the coming Democratic primary for Cook County Board president has created a free-for-all campaign, with no clear favorite yet to emerge from the four candidates ...