Human rights groups praised the Cook County Board for joining Chicago in protecting transgendered people from discrimination. The move Tuesday added people acting or identifying themselves as members of the opposite sex to the list of groups protected from housing and job discrimination. One member voted "present." "We already had a human rights ordinance, so this just extended some of those same rights and protections to what can often be described as a gender variant community," said Chicago Democratic Commissioner Mike Quigley, one of the ordinance amendment's sponsors. Rick Garcia, political director of the advocacy group Equality Illinois, said the...
