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An inmate escaped custody at Stroger Hospital this morning, so if you see a dude running around wearing both a Department of Corrections jumpsuit and a cast...call the police.

Just days after the death of his father, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has indicated that he may agree to give control of the county hospitals to an independent agency. Stroger's chief of staff Lance Tyson told Crain's Chicago Business "the intent is to take health services for the poor out of the sphere of politics and put it into a sphere of greater business expertise." The proposal to turn the county's health care system over to an independent body came last October, when a committee of business and health care executives commissioned to study the systemreleased their recommendations.

Former Cook County Board President John Stroger has died, Mayor Daley announced this morning. He was 78.

Breaking news: An Amtrak train and a freight train collided at 48th and South Shields Ave about an hour ago, and passengers are being pulled out as we write this. Developing. UPDATE 12:27: Don Rashid from Stroger Hospital is on NBC5 saying that Stroger is in a "stage 3 disaster." The footage is showing color-coded triage areas, and so far the green zone is empty. 12:30 Witnesses are describing a sound "like an explosion" when...

Add to the preparations plan for future marathons: Hand out more maps and make sure emergency personnel use them.

It seems like Cook County politics becomes more and more like a bad soap opera every time we open the newspaper. While Todd Stroger is threatening more cuts and tax hikes to cover the tab on the bloated executive payroll, Tony Peraica is giving speeches about prosecuting the crooks. Forrest Claypool wrote an op-ed piece earlier this week about the disaster that the County's health care system has devolved into, and Todd Stroger won't even...

Usually we're pretty keen on jumping on the Todd-Stroger-hatin' bandwagon when we hear about yet another cut to some desperately needed county program. But as the casualties continue to pile up, we find ourselves focusing less on Toddler and the 17 dwarves and more on the people who are losing the precious services they need to survive — and it just sucks.

Modest hero saves toddler and brushes off praise after locating boy, and putting his own air mask on him. The family of a missing Plainfield woman hopes two billboards to be unveiled Tuesday in that community, asking "Where is Lisa Stebic?" will help generate new tips. Somebody's lovin' it. McDonald's turns some heads by sponsoring a music tour featuring Chicago's Twista, a rapper whose raunchy lyrics have been identified by a billboard campaign decrying...

Vito Zaccaro was working at Cook County ... that is Stroger Hospital as a Cook County Sheriff's officer when the inmate he was guarding pulled a shank on him, stabbed him in the neck and wrestled with him for his gun. Losing blood from his neck, he retained control of his weapon, and chased down Willis Reese in his attempt to escape. Now, two months later, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's office has denied...

As the rest of the media fawned over the new city council, and reminisced on the follies of councils past, other silliness was going on in the realm of politics in the City by the Lake. Let's take a look at what's up here in town: The Old Council Does One Last Thing. Following up on an issue that we wrote about a while back, it seems that the City Council's zoning committee has held...

Late last month the Cook County Board of Commissioners voted to disband the Stroger Hospital Police Department, in response to allegations of abuse and unnecessary roughness. You may remember back in September when three Stroger Hospital police officers were accused of pulling a 77-year-old man from his car and beating him in front of the medical center. And last month Sun-Times reporter Steve Patterson was "roughed up and manhandled" by that same police force as...

"Lion of the Disenfranchised, Disenfranchised" via Michael DaKidd.

How 'bout that weather, Chicago? OK, we'll shut up now. A armed 19-year-old man holed himself up in his mother's apartment overnight with four hostages, but let them go without incident Sunday morning. Police responded to reports of a man with a gun at a four-unit building in the South Shore neighborhood around 1 a.m. The man in question gained access to his mother's place and locked himself in with three of his siblings, two...

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Here in the land of journalism — take that how you will — there exist trials and tribulations among the benefits. None of us here at Chicagoist are safe from the slings and arrows of our readers (Helen Schiller, anyone?). Luckily, as we are an online medium, the most we usually have to suffer is an occasional tongue-thrashing and virtual mailboxes groaning at the seams with hate. Some journalists are not so passive in their...

Tom Curtis, a former bartender at the Empty Bottle and current Twisted Spoke employee, was the victim of a senseless attack on December 8th. Walking home from a friend's house through an alley near the epicenter of Wicker Park, he was robbed by a group of young adults, beaten with a shovel about the face, neck, and head, and left for dead. Tom was found and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he received several transfusions for massive blood loss, and treatment to repair a crushed skull, a broken nose, jaw, teeth, and cheekbones. His neck was so swollen that intubation was required to allow him to breathe. The crushed skull also led to swelling and infections on the brain. Doctors gave little hope for Tom's survival. But he's fought back and is recovering better than the experts thought, although he still has a long way to go, including a couple more surgeries. And those are going to cost money; like many members of the service industry, Tom doesn't have health insurance.

Early Saturday morning a woman was crossing the street at 1227 N. Ashland and was hit by a cab. Chicago police are searching for the taxi driver, who witnesses say was speeding through a red light when the woman was hit and critically injured. The 26-year old is currently at the Stroger Hospital of Cook County. Police are still looking for any information regarding the cab driver, who was last seen speeding North on Ashland....

Here's a nice little wrapup to all of the assorted robberies, shootings, fires, car crashes and drug busts that happened this weekend:

Chicagoist's dad always told us than when people work together they can get anything done. Monday night, ol' Dad's words rang true. A coalition of county commisioners sent a resolution to the general council forbidding county agencies from asking people about their immigrations status when receiving county services. Citing previous allegations of questionable behavior, Roberto Maldonado, a co-sponsor of the resolution, said that the Council would be sending a "moral message" of solidarity to undocumented...

Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, strippers who really like you and television medical dramas. What do these things have in common? None of them are real (except for House. That shit’s all true. The woman from last season with a 30-pound tumor? Totally happened to someone at Northwestern).

Yesterday a man looking for the cell phone he'd just dropped was hit in the head by a Red Line train at the Sox/35th Street station. Details are a bit spotty, but apparently at around 10:40 p.m. Monday the man dropped his cell phone on the tracks and bent down to retrieve it when he was knocked unconscious by the train. Holy shit! Did he not look to see if a train was coming before he bent down? That's quite a sucker punch. Fortunately the man was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was in stable condition. He's expected to be released later today.

High noon came and went in the Cook County Board yesterday, and it seems that the bullets hit their mark. It was all about passing the 2005 budget. Three months late, and with a $73 million deficit, Board President John Stroger (at right) refused to make cuts, and instead insisted on increasing hotel and restaurant sales taxes two percent, lifting Chicago taxes to the nation's highest, 19.25%. Cutting the budget would lead to significant service...

. Also, who are we kidding, we totally love making fun of other people's pain. Anywhizz, poor, poor James Killis, Jr. Mr. Killis injured his arm while on the job. He complained, was offered $5,000 and then $10,000 but refused, and then he claims he was fired. Now he's suing his employer for $75,000. So far, standard fare.

Two men were seriously injured when a porch collapsed on the 1400 block of West Garfield Boulevard Tuesday evening. The porch collapsed when they accidentally dropped the stove they were stealing, causing the landing to break. The two men, ages 24 and 46, were taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition. If they recover they can expect to have their asses hauled off to jail. If not, well then Chicagoist intends to nominate them for the Darwin Awards!