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Article: Father's son, his own man: Todd Stroger and Tony Peraica bring competing visions to the race for Cook County Board president.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- October 27, 2006
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Byline: Robert Becker and Mickey Ciokajlo
Oct. 27--Todd Stroger attended his father's university. He followed his father into politics. He even lives in his father's old home on South Blackstone Avenue.
Now he wants his father's old job.
Stroger, the Democratic nominee for Cook County Board president, also wants voters to know that despite his familial and political ties to John Stroger, he is very much his own man with very different ideas of running county government.
Against the backdrop of a federal investigation into county hiring practices under his father, Todd Stroger, 43, labors to separate himself from his father's legacy of ...