Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin warned that delays by the county board in reconsidering a decision to ignore ICE detainers are putting dangerous criminals back on the street.
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Suffredin Warns Vote on ICE Detainer Amendment Still Weeks Away
Union Contract Passes, Sets Up for Big Budget Fight
Contracts, which had expired for as long as four years, between the Cook County government were finally renewed with the Teamsters Union but the debate surrounding its passage showed that the real fight will be with the budget which begins in earnest midnight tonight. These contracts ran from 2008 through 2012, but the 2012...
Immigration Debate Comes to the Cook County Board
Cook County inserted itself in the middle of the immigration debate when the Cook County Board passed what will certainly become a controversial ordinance that will reverberate throughout the United States. In a largely party line vote, the Cook County Board passed a controversial ordinance that will require the federal government to pay...
