Park Ridge aldermen began the process of opting out of Cook County’s amended mandate for paid leave for public employees at Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting. Park Ridge and other suburban municipalities opted out of the state’s paid leave act before it was enacted on Jan. 1. The Cook County Board met in December to amend its paid leave ordinance to expand the areas where the state’s .
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The issue on the table was whether Park Ridge should let Taylor Swift perform a pop-up concert on the steps of City Hall. All the top officials in Park Ridge were clustered around the dais, from the mayor to the police and fire chiefs to the directors of finance and public works, to hear public commenters’ concerns about how much traffic the concert could bring to the city or their excitement .