While Mayor Daley can almost always count on City Council members to vote his way, the opposite is true across the hall in the county boardroom, according to a new study released this week by the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In the report, entitled “County Wars,” political science professor Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly, a graduate student, found only four of 17 county commissioners are likely to vote with County Board President Todd Stroger between 76 and 100 percent of the time. Meanwhile, 11 commissioners who have served at the same time as Stroger vote against him more than 50 percent of the time. Read more...
