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Posts tagged "Cook County"

Need A Job? Get Related to Joe Berrios.

If there’s anything Joe Berrios is famous for other than that f**king fantastic salt-and-pepper mustache, it’s hiring half of his gigantic family to staff his offices, stuffing the public payroll with every second cousin and old neighbor he could dust off. I guess you can’t accuse him of breaking with tradition. Criticized repeatedly for stacking... Read more »
By emzanotti,
December 9, 2010 at 10:48 am
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You'll Pry This Governorship From Bill Brady's Cold, Creepy Hands

All of the precincts are now counted and Pat Quinn leads Bill Brady by something like 20,000 votes, a nearly impossible margin to overcome even if we throw this mutha into recounts until Christmas. Even though I can understand the reticence to admit defeat with provisional and absentee ballots yet to be counted, over the... Read more »
By emzanotti,
November 4, 2010 at 11:14 am
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Scott Lee Cohen's Job Fairs Shockingly Not Very Job Heavy

I was sort of wondering about this myself considering that I’d been to a few “Chicago job fairs” and never quite found anyone actually willing to hire me, blog notwithstanding. In fact, I’d never found anyone offering an actual job. So imagine my surprise when people on the radio were vomiting all over themselves about... Read more »
By emzanotti,
October 22, 2010 at 1:09 pm
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Rahm Emanuel Hits Up Hollywood For Cash

Obviously, his reception in Chicago has been less warm than expected, so rather than releasing a stream of expletives on national television, he’s taking his mayoral show on the road to the West Coast where people are still comfortable with him, possibly because they have yet to encounter reality. I’ve just learned that five well-known... Read more »
By emzanotti,
October 21, 2010 at 2:21 pm
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Todd Stroger Is Out To Get Suburbanites

If you’re not willing to put in those dastardly county red light cameras at your intersections, well, Todd Stroger won’t be fixing your roads. Take that, suburban beeeyoootches. In the latest outrage, board President Todd Stroger and his supporters threaten to abdicate maintenance of some suburban road intersections if the towns won’t let the county... Read more »
By emzanotti,
July 21, 2010 at 11:01 am
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Would You Hire Shorty Capone?

It’s not like Todd Stroger is famous for being above board with his hiring strategy or, for that matter, the people he hires, fires, gives raises, makes his closest confidants, asks to fluff his pillows and warm his milk, etc. Which would explain, of course, why it comes as no surprise to most of Cook... Read more »
By emzanotti,
July 6, 2010 at 10:45 pm
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