The average salary for Cook County workers has far outpaced that of the typical Cook County household since 2001, and that’s contributed to the county’s fiscal ills.

With the repeal of the Cook County sweetened beverage tax, taxpayers remind elected officials who they represent.

The Cook County Board Finance Committee voted Oct. 10 in favor of an ordinance to repeal the unpopular sweetened beverage tax. The repeal measure now awaits a vote before the full board.

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle shared an admission that the soda tax was always about revenue.

Cook County’s penny-per-ounce sweetened beverage tax has led to another lawsuit alleging a restaurant applied the tax incorrectly.

With mounting pressure, a vote on the repeal of the soda tax was delayed for another month.

Recent polls show Cook County officials could face electoral backlash for supporting the soda tax.

After threatening thousands of job cuts, President Preckwinkle agrees to a lucrative contract with one of Cook County’s unions.

Retailers will now have to either program cash registers not to tax purchases made with food stamps, or implement a “manual override.”

House Bill 4082 would ban Illinois home rule counties from levying taxes on sweetened drinks by volume sold.