From the Chicago Sun-Times:

Stroger fires two linked to Mike Madigan

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger was sending a message to Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan when he recently fired two of Madigan’s top political operatives from their high-paying county jobs, county sources said.

Madigan, like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, has not made an endorsement in [...]

As reported by Fox News Chicago, Cook County Commissioner Joseph Moreno’s (7th District) brother, Alex, was caught sleeping on the job and said in his defense, “Have you ever worked in front of a computer for 3 or 4 hours?” Oh, it’s much worse than that. The Fox News team found 137 white collar patronage workers [...]

“Deep divide between Daley, Stroger” read the recent Sun-Times headline. Based on a study by University of Illinois political science professor Dick Simpson entitled “Cook County Wars,” the article reports that the Daley Family is displeased with the man they handed Cook County government to in 2006.

Neither Stroger nor Daley discussed the roots of their divide, [...]

As reported in the Chicago Tribune:

Faced with widespread voter dissatisfaction, embattled Cook County Board President Todd Stroger trails Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown and Chicago Ald. Toni Preckwinkle in the race for the Democratic primary nomination, a Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows.

Brown had the support of 29 percent of likely Feb. 2 primary voters, ahead of Preckwinkle’s 20 [...]