HOW is Stroger connected to the Hospital and how did HE die?
Chicago’s Cook County government. They probably would have succeeded, too, had Mr. Obama taken their side. Liberals and conservatives came together and nearly ousted Cook County Board President John Stroger, the machine boss whom court papers credibly accuse of illegally using the county payroll to maintain his own standing army of political cronies, contributors and campaigners.
The since-deceased Stroger’s self-serving mismanagement of county government is still the subject of federal investigations and arbitration claims. Stroger was known for trying repeatedly to raise taxes to fund his political machine, even as basic government services were neglected in favor of high-paying county jobs for his political soldiers.
John Stroger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaStroger served on the Chicago Metropolitan Healthcare Council and the board of South Shore Hospital. The new Cook County Hospital was renamed the John H. Stroger, Jr. Cook County ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stroger · Enhanced viewTodd Stroger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaTodd H Stroger (born January 14, 1963) is the current Cook County, Board president and former alderman for the 8th Ward in Chicago. Stroger is a member of the Democratic Party.
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His son, Todd, was “placed” as Cook Cnty president
and is very unpopular with everyone except his fellow
pols and family ‘placed’ in Cnty positions. Pay to play
rules .. throughout the city, county, suburbs, state...
the IL Combine, as Kass calls it = both parties.
John Stroger : 1929 - 2008 - Gentleman politician always ‘about people’ - Path from precinct captain to party stalwart made John Stroger a health-care champion and a target for critics of old-style politics
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Saturday, January 19, 2008
Author: Gary Washburn, TRIBUNE REPORTER\ Tribune reporters Mickey Ciokajlo, Robert Becker and Jeffrey Meitrodt contributed to this report.
John Stroger , who rose through the ranks of local Democratic politics from assistant precinct captain to powerful ward boss to become the first African-American elected Cook County Board president, died Friday after a long illness.
Mr. Stroger was best known for his efforts to expand county-provided health services to the poor, exemplified by the hospital that bears his name. But his tenure also was marked by criticism that he was an old-style politician who put a priority on using government to help his friends and family members.
“Every Democratic official elected in the last 40 years throughout the state owed President Stroger because he could deliver,” said William Beavers, a longtime friend, political ally and current County Board member.
A week before the March 2006 primary, Mr. Stroger suffered a debilitating stroke. Though the extent of his illness was shrouded in secrecy and became the source of controversy, he won the primary but never recovered and never appeared in public again.
Months later, Mr. Stroger formally retired from the County Board presidency. Democratic Party leaders picked his son Todd, a Chicago alderman at the time, to replace him on the ballot, and Todd Stroger won election that fall.
Mr. Stroger , 78, died at 8 a.m., according to Todd Stroger ‘s office.
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Mr. Stroger died at Warren Barr Pavilion, a long-term care facility at 66 W. Oak St., said Gene Mullins, a family friend and spokesman. Mr. Stroger had shuttled between his home and the facility as his doctors and nurses advised, Mullins said.
He had been in stable condition “and he just suffered complications from the stroke,” Mullins said, declining to provide details. Another friend who last visited him several months ago said Mr. Stroger had to communicate with hand signals.
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