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12/19/10 Each day, we use this space to talk about what needs to be done to improve our communities. Frequently, that means darts, not laurels: The state is wasting our tax dollars; red-light cameras are cynically intended to take money out of your wallet rather than make the streets safer; the current level of public pensions is unsustainable; Todd Stroger is incompetent (yes, gone but not forgotten ...
12/01/10 CHICAGO | Cook County Board President Todd Stroger presided overhis last meeting Wednesday.
11/29/10 Todd Stroger will preside over his final meeting as Cook County Board President Wednesday, yet he won't leave office completely empty-handed. According to disclosure documents filed with the state, his campaign fund, Friends of Todd Stroger, remains $420,000 in the black, with two certificates of deposit squirreled away as "investments" at the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago.
11/16/10 STELLA'S SPOTLIGHTTHE SMOKEY SCOOP: LEGENDARY R&B artist Smokey Robinson will be the center of attraction for "Smokey Robinson Day" in Chicago on Nov. 19 at the Regal Theater on East 79th Street.Smokey will be honored by the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago, Cook County and by the Ken Bedford Anaia's Breast Cancer Awareness Program (ABCAP). Gov. Quinn and Todd Stroger, outgoing president ...
11/06/10 No more fancy office furniture. No more hush-hush, no-bid government contracts -- that are illegal. And in the next four years, say goodbye to the county sales tax hike.That's the message from Toni Preckwinkle as she prepares to take the reins of the Cook County Board. The board's president-elect is positioning herself as the anti-Todd Stroger, the lame-duck board president whose administration ...
11/01/10 Two Cook County commissioners are pushing lame-duck Cook County Board President Todd Stroger to fight the unemployment claim filed by Carla Oglesby, his former deputy chief of staff.Stroger fired her last month after she was charged with stealing $300,000 from the county by rewarding her pals and her own firm a series of no-bid contracts for work that was never done.Commissioner Larry Suffredin ...
10/21/10 Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's former deputy chief of staff has filed for unemployment benefits after she was fired for allegedly stealing $300,000 from taxpayers. Carla Oglesby, who faces felony public corruption charges and is free on bail, filed the claim with the Illinois Department of Employment Security on October 10, six days after she was arrested, a source said. The 41-year ...
10/21/10 Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's former deputy chief of staff has filed for unemployment benefits - even though she was fired for allegedly stealing $300,000 from taxpayers. Carla Oglesby, 41, who faces public corruption charges and is free on bail, filed the claim with the Illinois Department of Employment Security on Oct. 10, six days after she was arrested, a source said. She lost ...
10/20/10 Carla Oglesby, removed from post after arrest and indictment for felony theft, now seeking assistance from IDES A former top aide to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger who faces felony theft charges in a contracting scandal has filed for unemployment benefits, a county spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
10/20/10 Carla Oglesby, removed from post after arrest and indictment for felony theft, now seeking assistance from IDES Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's ex-Deputy Chief of Staff Carla Oglesby, right, who faces felony theft charges, is seeking unemployment benefits, a county spokesman said. She is accused of stealing more than $300,000.
10/11/10 The Watchdogs: The case against Carla Oglesby -- the now-former deputy chief of staff to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger -- is spelled out in a 10-page criminal complaint that refers anonymously to a cast of characters prosecutors say were involved, many of them unwittingly. Though no one else is identified by name, sources familiar with the case told the Chicago Sun-Times that the 13 ...
10/08/10 A former top aide to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger walked out of the county jail Thursday and into the arms of her parents, ignoring a gaggle of reporters nearby. Carla Oglesby, 41, has been behind bars since Monday, when she was arrested and charged with stealing $300,000 in county funds through a sham contracting scheme. She walked away from the jail arm-in-arm with her mother ...
10/08/10 A former top aide to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger walked out of jail Thursday and into the arms of her parents, ignoring a gaggle of reporters. Oglesby, 41, had been behind bars since Monday, when she was arrested and charged with stealing $300,000 in county funds through a sham contracting scheme.
10/05/10 Audio Available Bond is set at $250,000 for a top aide to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger.
10/05/10 She pushed through county contracts that didn't require board OK A top aide to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger faces felony charges stemming from an investigation into whether she steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts to her own public relations firm and associates who might not have done any work.
09/19/10 Neil Steinberg: Did you see that Todd Stroger announced he isn't running for mayor of Chicago? OK, "announced" isn't fair. Someone asked him if he is running and he said no. Which at least demonstrates some ability for candid self-assessment. Not everyone is capable of such lucidity. I was shocked to see Carol Moseley Braun toss her hat into the mayoral ring.
07/27/10 This weekend's flooding across Northeast Illinois has prompted a flurry of declaration activity from local government. Yesterday, Gov. Quinn declared 12 counties as disaster areas and today Cook County Board President Todd Stroger issued his own proclamation for Cook County, hoping to bolster the push for federal aid for homeowners who sustained flood damage to their homes. Per the ...
05/19/10 Aides bypass board, hand out $150,000 in work Two top aides to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger sidestepped the need for commissioners' approval in doling out nearly $150,000 in census outreach work to people they knew.
02/01/10 Even though you have to go all the way back to Richard Ogilvie in 1966 to find the last Republican voted in as Cook County Board President, each election cycle there are always members of the area Republican Party willing to at least give it a shot, so with all the attention being focused lately on who's going to end Todd Stroger's political career we thought we would take a glance across the ...
01/30/10 Quinn and Stroger trying to fight off slew of challengers and charges Gov. Pat Quinn and Cook County Board President Todd Stroger find themselves in the rare spot of being incumbents battling to hang onto their jobs when voters decide in Tuesday's primary whether opponents' charges of incompetence are valid.
01/30/10 Gov. Pat Quinn and Cook County Board President Todd Stroger find themselves in the rare spot of being incumbents battling to hang onto their jobs when voters decide in Tuesday's primary whether opponents' charges of incompetence are valid. | 
