The Republican incumbent for Cook County Board of Commissioners' 17th District seat edged out Democrat opponent Patrick Maher in a campaign rife with allegations and criticism.
Elizabeth Gorman will have her chance to "fight Stroger politics" as she said while greeting voters outside the Orland Park Civic Center on Tuesday night. Gorman won another four-year term as Cook County Board's 17th District commissioner with about 59 percent of votes, against Democrat challenger Patrick Maher who received 36 percent of the votes. Green Party candidate Matthew Ogean pulled just more than five percent of votes in the race. At the victory party at Sam Maguire's Pub after most of the numbers had come in, the incumbent said she was proud of running a clean campaign and criticized Maher for neglecting the real problems with Cook County government. "He blamed me for his inability to tell the truth," said Gorman, noting that…
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Toni Preckwinkle, the Democratic nominee for Cook County Board President, shares her thoughts on economic development and county government in the south suburbs.
Toni Preckwinkle, the Chicago alderwoman who ousted incumbent Cook County Board President Todd Stroger in the Democratic primary, sees a Cook County with fewer elected offices, trains speeding at 220 miles per hour and projects drawing businesses to the Southland. But more immediately, she sees a county with entrenched patronage, huge disparities between rich and poor areas and a $300 million shortfall she expects to rise as negotiated pay raises come due. "The $300 million is the floor, not the ceiling," Preckwinkle told the Chicago Southland Chamber of Commerce Monday at the group's monthly Regional Consensus Luncheon. After what Preckwinkle called a "bruising" primary, the Democratic candidate will face Republican Roger A. Keats and …
