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.

Cook County residents should be wary in the wake of Philadelphia’s disappointing experiment in soda taxes.

Certain provisions of Cook County’s penny-per-ounce soda tax could cost Illinois more than $86 million in federal administrative funding.

Commissioners from both parties are supporting a repeal effort of the sweetened beverage tax following widespread public outcry.

A new poll has found that nearly 87 percent of Cook County residents disapprove of the new Cook County Sugary and Sweetened Beverages tax that took effect Aug. 2.

Cook County’s lawsuit seeks damages from the Illinois Retail Merchants Association.

While supporters of the tax claim success in the fight against obesity, the law exempts a vulnerable segment of the population.