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Article: Stroger's son gets Democrats' fall nod Cook County Board remains divided on interim president.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2006
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Byline: Rob Olmstead Daily Herald Staff Writer
With a little bit of grumbling, and a lot of posturing, the coronation of Todd Stroger went off without a hitch Tuesday as the Cook County Democratic Party nominated him to take his father's place on the November ballot in the county board president race.
While the well-orchestrated show was taking place at the Hotel Allegro in downtown Chicago, a block away at the County Building, chaos still reigned with no consensus candidate among county commissioners emerging to fill the presidency for the next four months.
"I think it's just madness. It's just totally unpredictable," said Forrest Claypool, a ...