Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough seeks end to historic anti-patronage case despite charges that she 'stonewalls'

For more than a decade as a Cook County officeholder, Democratic stalwart Karen Yarbrough has repeatedly fought allegations she and her office violated long-standing federal court decrees aimed at cracking down on patronage hiring that has haunted local government for generations. The two-term Cook County clerk and former recorder of deeds’ approach to hiring has, at times, resembled that of a ...

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