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A subcommittee of the group working to help homeless people in the area wants to create a low-barrier shelter here that resembles the Second Avenue Commons shel
"Mr. Madigan ran his organization, as close as I can compare it to, almost the head of a mafia family," Former FBI Special Agent Brendan O’Leary said.
For more than a decade as a Cook County officeholder, Democratic stalwart Karen Yarbrough has repeatedly fought allegations she and her office violated long-standing federal court decrees aimed at cracking down on patronage hiring that has haunted local government for generations. The two-term Cook County clerk and former recorder of deeds’ approach to hiring has, at times, resembled that of a ...