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 ...

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 ...

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger said Thursday that prostate cancer had been diagnosed in him months before he was picked by Democratic Party leaders to be on the ballot in 2006, and that he ...

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 ...

Cook County board president Todd Stroger knows he’s in trouble. The most recent evidence is his abrupt commitment to lowering taxes—the same ones he raised last year, causing outrage, protest, ...

CHICAGO John Stroger was the first African American to be elected county board president. He died last week from complications from a stroke. One speaker began his eulogy by looking out over the crowd ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Stroger had some harsh criticism for the media and for other politicians. It is a great irony that Todd Stroger is now a member of the media - the institution that he says destroyed his career in ...

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