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Cook County is the biggest county in the state of Illinois and includes Chicago and many of the surrounding suburbs in the northeast corner of the state. According to the U.S. Census, the county covered about 945 square miles and its population was 5,288,655 in 2006. The county was named after Daniel Pope Cook, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1800s. Toni Preckwinkle is the Cook County Board President.
Cook County is the biggest county in the state of Illinois and includes Chicago and many of the surrounding suburbs in the northeast corner of the state. According to the U.S. Census, the county covered about 945 square miles and its population was 5,288,655 in 2006. The county was named after Daniel Pope Cook, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1800s. Toni Preckwinkle is the Cook County Board President.
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Michelle Obama in NYC: The corner of glitz and media
Spin CycleThe journey from campaign life to White House residency marks the change of a lifetime, they say, and now it is the turn of Michelle Robinson Obama ??? once of Chicago???s working class and later of the Ivy League......Tags: Human Rights, Jimmy Fallon, Kate Hudson, Ivy League, National Government
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Reid's Obama apology: Post-racial land?
The Swampby Mark Silva, on Saturday, updated noon EST Sunday We suppose it's sadly inevitable, in the land that is not quite post-racial America, that we're learning, in retrospect, about how some of the white powers of the nation viewed the......Tags: Democratic Party, Bill Clinton, Long Island Expressway, Government, Barack Obama
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Weis talks uniforms, politics, case of Daley's nephew
Former Chicago police Superintendent Jody Weis said Tuesday that the 2004 death of David Koschman — after a confrontation in the Rush Street nightclub area with a nephew of Mayor Richard Daley's — should be reinvestigated by an independent law...Tags: Regional Authority, Jody Weis, Potatoes, Richard M. Daley, Anita Alvarez
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Where's the consistency, NHL?
Blackhawks forward Andrew Shaw hit a goalie. It was obvious and potentially concussive. The NHL said it was cracking down on hits involving the head. He deserved a suspension.
Nashville’s Shea Weber rammed a player’s head into the glass...Tags: Daniel Sedin, Sports, National Hockey League, Duncan Keith, Andrew Shaw
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Viewpoint: Nature walks offer slice of variety
For more than 45 years our family has gotten at least part of our exercise walking around a nearby 160-acre field bordered by a drain ditch. We have spotted various critters over the years on these walks: snakes, owls, rabbits, turtles, gophers, skunks,...
Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Jordan Creek Greenway an excellent lab for Parkland ecology students
Jeremy Motsko took the leaf of skunk cabbage being passed around at the Trexler Nature Preserve last Wednesday and took a deep whiff. He tried to act bravely.
He smiled broadly, took another deep whiff of the native plant, which smells very much like the...Tags: Earth Day, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Allentown, Teaching and Learning
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Delaware River Shad Fishermen to discuss shad restoration
If there's just one outdoors group meeting you're going to make this year, clear your schedule for Wednesday evening. The Delaware River Shad Fishermen's Association is holding its regular monthly meeting, with important speakers addressing key issues in...Tags: Craigslist, Inc., Earth Day, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Fishing, Wildlife
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Three payjackers inducted into Hall of Fame
Sometimes our readers pleasantly surprise me. "Some of the Harrisburg gang that pushed through the midnight illegal pay grab are running in the Pa. primary," one of them wrote recently. "I think you promised to remind the voters who they are …...Tags: Primaries, Schuylkill County, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Lou Barletta, T.J. Rooney
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Federal immigration official warns Preckwinkle about policy
The nation's top immigration official has written a stern warning to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle about her policy that allowed Saul Chavez to skip bail and run out on felony charges. "This ordinance undermines public safety in Cook...Tags: Cook County Board of Commissioners, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Crime, Law and Justice, Toni Preckwinkle, Safety of Citizens
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20 years after riots, hope and despair in South L.A.
To think deeply and compassionately about South Los Angeles as we approach the 20th anniversary of the L.A. riots is to inhabit a middle ground between optimism and bleak defeat.
A lot of good is going on in the inner city. But the last two decades...Tags: Philosophy, Justice and Rights, George H.W. Bush, Civil Rights, Los Angeles Police Department
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At Tolliver's barbershop, pondering what 20 years have wrought
It's history they were talking about. The verdict that landed like a slap in the face. The smoke that rose over the city in columns of protest. The rampant looting and savage beatings. They were talking about nothing less than the evolution of a city...
Tags: Starbucks Corp., James McKnight, Diabetes, Los Angeles Police Department, College Sports
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Family shattered after raid, home loss
The Harris family's life began to unravel around dawn on the last day of August.
R.J. Harris, who is 77, was in bed when a noise jolted him awake.
Bam. What was that?
Bam. It sounded like an explosion.
Bam. The front door swung open and officers in...Tags: Scott Waguespack, Chicago Police Department, Misdemeanors, Mary Schmich, Methamphetamine (drug)
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