• The State House and Senate both voted to override Gov. Quinn's veto of the McCormick place reform bill.
• Speaking of the state legislature, the Senate won't call a vote on the pension payment plan today because there currently aren't enough votes to pass it.
• Mayor Daley addressed the recent incidents of unrest at the city's beaches, blaming it on those pesky teens and their no-good text messaging.

• Investigators are looking into an incident in which one teen used a stolen car to run over another, giving the victim life-threatening injuries. The cause? A feud over a girl via a "social networking website."
• Cook County Board Pres. Todd Stroger is now turning his ire towards Gov. Quinn for signing the bill that enabled commissioners to override his tax rollback veto.
• Jay Cutler says there's no feud between him and Brian Urlacher after Urlacher's controversial comments earlier this week.

By a tally of 12-5, the Cook County Board voted to override President Todd Stroger's veto of the half-percent tax rollback approved last month and promptly vetoed by Stroger. According to Peraica, the meeting was an hour and a half late in starting. The Board was able to take advantage of a new law that cut the number of votes required to override a veto from 14 to 11. more ›

Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a bill that makes it easier for Cook County commissioners to beat back a veto, reducing the number of votes needed from 14 to 11. And while Quinn called the measure a chance to make government more responsive to voters, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger wasn't too happy about it. Stroger's governmental affairs director Derek Blaida said the president's office "believes there are constitutional concerns and questions over changing the power of the executive branch and shifting that to the legislature during the middle of a term," according to the Tribune. Blaida said that Stroger will continue to review the measure, with an eye on a legal challenge. more ›

After a summer filled with debate amongst the Cook County Commissioners in regards to the sales tax rollback, Board President Todd Stroger's veto, and the commissioners inability to garner enough votes to override said veto, the state legislature has gotten involved. Yesterday, both the House (by a 66-49 vote) and the Senate (by a 49-1 vote) passed a bill that sets the new requirement for a veto override at three-fifths of the commissioners (11) rather than the current requirement of fourth-fifths (14). Now all that's left is for Gov. Quinn to sign it. The bill was specifically aimed at Stroger and the tax rollback. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge), said, "This is a great win for taxpayers in Cook County." Stroger spokeswoman Chris Geovanis said, "We're disappointed that the legislature chose not to use logic and decided to change the rules in the middle of the game." Stroger has previously said he would fight any such legislation in court if it was passed. more ›