Assurance contract. The QA contract went to Chicago based Synch Solutions, which was paid, according to the County, approximately $860,000. The head of the company is John Sterling, the stepson of former Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, a political...

Cook County wasted millions of dollars on an ultimately unworkable countywide security system during a seven-year span when the Strogers led county government, according to a new federal report. From 2003 to 2009, the federal government reimbursed the co

In 2009, both Kirk, then a congressman, and Quigley requested the Homeland Security review of "Project Shield." In June, Cook County officials pulled the plug on the program, largely implemented under former County Board President Todd Stroger, after a...

Kirk was one of a handful of Republicans to vote in favor of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” During the debt ceiling debate, he endorsed the Gang of 5’s bipartisan plan to reduce the deficit. Toni Preckwinkle, B: The Cook County Board president...

Preckwinkle took over as Cook County Board President last December. When Toni Preckwinkle took over as Cook County Board President last December, she vowed to do things differently than her predecessor Todd Stroger. Preckwinkle initiated the reversal of...

On the other hand, things are a mess, and over the last year we've done our best to begin to correct the mess we inherited. It's regrettable, in my mind, that that has had to include layoffs." A year ago today Toni Preckwinkle succeeded Todd Stroger as...