Stroger worked as a statistician for the Office of the Chief Judge of Cook County ; later he was also a jury supervisor with the Cook County Jury Commissioners.

On July 18, 2006, the Cook County Democratic Central Committee ( a collection of 80 county Democratic party leaders also known as " ward committeemen " or " township committeemen ") overwhelmingly chose Todd Stroger to replace his father as the Democratic candidate for Cook County Board president for the Nov. 7, 2006 election.

Stroger also drew fire for perceived nepotism, including promoting his cousin Donna Dunnings, who had worked in the County's budget office for 16 years, to the position of the County's chief financial officer.

Dunnings and Stroger received additional criticism when she received a $ 17, 000 raise after she initially agreed to not accept a pay hike ( in an attempt to help county finances ).

After taking office, Stroger proposed budget cuts for the Cook County Sheriff's Office, Cook County State's Attorney's Office, and Cook County Public Defender's Office that were unpopular with other commissioners.

In September 2007, he voiced his support for a proposal to raise the county-wide sales tax to 11 percent ( an additional two cents on the dollar ) to remedy a $ 307 million budget deficit, which would force public facilities such as Stroger Hospital to cut services or even close.

On February 29, 2008, the Cook County Board, by a measure of 10-7, passed a budget initiated by Stroger.

When, in December 2003, the four reformers garnered enough swing votes to defeat Stroger's FY 2004 budget ( the first time such a thing had happened to a Cook County Board President in three decades ), Stroger gave Claypool a backhanded compliment, saying, " The media has prevailed, along with Mr. Claypool.

Although the Tribune criticized the Bush administration's record on civil liberties, the environment, and many aspects of its foreign policy, it continued to support his presidency while taking Democrats, such as Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, to task and calling for their removal from office.

Three hospitals are part of this system: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Provident Hospital, and Oak Forest Hospital of Cook County, along with over 30 clinics.

Sawyer died just one day after former Cook County Board President John Stroger, creating a lot of Chicago local news coverage on the passing of both men.

Todd H. Stroger ( born January 14, 1963 ) is the former president of the Cook County, Illinois Board and a former alderman for the 8th Ward in Chicago.

Stroger is a member of the Democratic Party.

He is the son of John Stroger who served as Cook County Board president for 12 years until his death.

On February 2, 2010, Stroger finished last in the Illinois Democratic primary behind Dorothy A.

Stroger was raised in the Chatham-Avalon neighborhood, located on Chicago's South Side.

In 1992, Stroger was elected as State Representative for the 31st District of Illinois.

Stroger is an active fundraiser for the United Negro College Fund and a member of the Young Democrats.

In 2001 Stroger was appointed by Mayor Richard M. Daley to replace Lorraine Dixon, who had died while in office.

Stroger served on seven committees: Budget and Government Operations ; Committees, Rules, and Ethics ; Housing and Real Estate ; Human Relations ; Police and Fire ; Special Events and Cultural Affairs ; and Traffic Control and Safety.

On March 14, 2006, John Stroger, Cook County Board of Commissioners president since 1994 and Todd Stroger's father, suffered a serious stroke one week before the Democratic primary.

John Stroger eventually won the Democratic nomination, winning about 53 percent of the votes cast, defeating Forrest Claypool.

Shortly after the stroke, Todd Stroger gave noncommittal responses about the likelihood that his father would remain on the ballot.

Ultimately, John Stroger would submit his resignation.

At the same time that John Stroger submitted his resignation, it was announced that alderman William Beavers would assume the County Commissioner seat while Todd Stroger, if elected, would take over the County Board presidency.

In the aftermath of his father's resignation, Todd Stroger emerged as the front-runner for his father's presidential seat.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

He also drew precise crisp spots, which he sold to various literary and artistic journals, The New Yorker, for instance, or Esquire.

were able to inhibit bacterial growth, and even to cure bacterial infections in animal ( Ernest Duchesne in 1897 in his thesis " Contribution to the study of vital competition in micro-organisms: antagonism between moulds and microbes ", or also Clodomiro Picado Twight whose work at Institut Pasteur in 1923 on the inhibiting action of fungi of the " Penicillin sp " genre in the growth of staphylococci drew little interest from the direction of the Institut at the time ).

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

Plato drew a parallel between Athene and the ancient Libyan and Egyptian goddess Neith, a war deity who also was depicted carrying a shield.

Alexander drew mainly from his own disputations, but also selected ideas, arguments and sources from his contemporaries.

" Bardot's book was also against miscegenation ; made attacks on modern art, which Bardot equated with " shit "; drew similarities between French politicians and weather vanes ; and compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had " given their lives to push out invaders ".

He also drew on Josephus's Antiquities, and the works of Cassiodorus, and there was a copy of the Liber Pontificalis in Bede's monastery.

She also drew Manet into the circle of painters who soon became known as the Impressionists.

From 1977-1978, Jones wrote and drew the syndicated comic strip Crawford ( also known as Crawford & Morgan ) for the Chicago Tribune-NY News Syndicate.

Pei also drew inspiration from the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples ; he wanted the buildings to exist in harmony with their natural surroundings.

He ensured that film studios such as UFA at Babelsberg near Berlin continued to produce a stream of comedies and light romances, which drew mass audiences to the cinema where they would also watch propaganda newsreels and Nazi epics.

Severn was also instrumental in helping to found the British Academy of the Fine Arts in Rome, which drew the support of such influential figures as the Duke of Devonshire, John Flaxman and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

He also drew caricatures of the cast and crew.

Jacob is also important as his life drew numerous parallels with the life of Muhammad.

Around this time he was involved in the creation of the Filmliga based in Amsterdam which drew foreign filmmakers to Holland such as Alberto Cavalcanti, René Clair, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who also became his friends.

That same year he drew cartoon illustrations for Bernard Shir-Cliff's The Wild Reader, also for Ballantine.

Although a radical movement, the Khmer Rouge also drew on the idioms of Cambodian Buddhist culture.

These were both times he was in the area, and, by 1799, Coleridge was able to read Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer, a work which also drew on Purchas's work.

In 1987, Otomo continued working in anime, directing an animated work for the first time: a segment, which he also wrote the screenplay and drew animation for, in the anthology feature Neo Tokyo.

By supporting Sierra Leonean rebels, Taylor also drew the enmity of the British and Americans.

The band also drew on a wide variety of genres, including world music, and elements of early rock and roll, jazz, country, funk, soul and reggae, particularly on Houses of the Holy and the albums that followed.

He also drew many figures who had significant facial deformities or signs of illness.

Leonardo also studied and drew the anatomy of many animals, dissecting cows, birds, monkeys, bears, and frogs, and comparing in his drawings their anatomical structure with that of humans.

The king, who drew Jewish settlers from across Europe to his country, built several castles along western border of Lesser Poland, with the most notable ones in Skawina, Pieskowa Skała, Będzin, Lanckorona, Olkusz, Lelów, Bobolice, Krzepice, Ogrodzieniec, Ojców, Olsztyn, Bobolice, Mirów ( see also Eagle Nests Trail ).