Cook County Puts Magazine on Hold

By Prescott Carlson in News on Jul 27, 2008 1:42PM

Cook County officials have decided to shelve a publication that would have less readers than our grandma's blog, Cook County Magazine. Why? Do they want to deny us a peek into the great mind of our elite county leader, Todd Stroger, or the "mouthwatering" recipe for orange crab salad? Is it because the county spent nearly $25,000 to launch the magazine, and were only able to sell three ads for the inaugural issue? No, it's because -- as with most things coming out of Stroger's office -- there was a bit of a quality control issue. One of the vast minions of Stroger spokespeople Eugene Mullins said the magazine is riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, and the 5,000 issues printed are going straight into the garbage.

"I was asked to review it and decided not to distribute it -- not because of content, but errors and omissions in the article" about John Stroger, Mullins said. "Judging on grammatical stuff -- something misspelled or that's not a complete sentence -- falls back on the president. And this is a Cook County magazine. I have to find a way to get rid of them. I'm not distributing them."

Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments for how Mullins should "get rid of them". [S-T]