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Downtown Chicago Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) announced Wednesday he is challenging Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle in the Democratic primary next year. "Cook County government is broken ...

Who pays for governmental ineptitude? In considering that question in its many contexts, this board has focused mainly on taxpayers and understandably so. After all, they’re the ones footing the ...

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