(AP) Rockford Register Star—Former Cook County president files for unemployment, county officials protest, “A spokeswoman for current board president Toni Preckwinkle says Stroger applied Jan. 7 to the Illinois Department of Employment Security, seeking unemployment benefits for the $170,000 he received yearly as president.”
- Chicago Sun-Times—The Watchdogs: City Hall hired 139 ex-cons in two years, “One of them smuggled cocaine from Jamaica about a decade ago. Another was a carjacker. A third was convicted in the shooting of two Chicago cops in the 1970s, hitting one of them in the face.”
- Daily Herald—FOI requests: Exercising rights or clogging government?, “[S]ome government leaders say partly because of the law and partly because of single-issue activists like Burns, they’re getting clogged with requests.”
- Chicago Tribune—$1 million contract for mayor’s daughter is on table in Dolton, “Village trustees were set to vote on the contract during a “special meeting” last week, but the board didn’t have enough trustees to vote,”
