This Week in Cook County …
A few of our favorite updates from the past week:
- Commissioner Peraica initiated legal action against Mayor Daley’s unilateral committment of the taxpayers as guarantors for the cost of the 2016 Olympics. Read coverage of this action here, here, here and here.
- The city’s 2016 Olympic organizers hold secret meetings with a number of aldermen (but not enough to trigger the Open Meetings Act) … yet another slap in the face to Chicago taxpayers.
- The Wilmette Life covers the North Shore Tea Party, in which Commissioner Peraica took part.
- The Illinois State Crime Commission provides laughs by honoring Melrose Park Mayor Ron Serpico.
- Chicagoland is shocked (but not surprised?) when Anthony Abbate — the Chicago cop whose brutal beating of a female bartender was caught on video — was sentenced only to probation and “anger management.”
- This morning’s Sun-Times reports on a new, $5,000 expenditure by the Stroger Administration to have the Cook County seal embroidered on the carpet in the county building entrance. The usefulness of the expensive seal was especially called into question since it is “roped off” like a museum exhibit.
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