After a robust lobbying effort from suburban school and park districts, county leaders are moving to exempt thousands of employees from Cook County’s hastily passed ordinance that strengthened paid leave policies for all county workers, allowing employees to take time off for any reason, not just sickness. Decrying an unfunded mandate and scant notice about how to implement it, several .
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The PE teacher is accused of “grooming” a former student athlete and allegedly having a sexual relationship with her while he was a basketball coach at Elmwood Park High School more than a decade ago, according to a lawsuit filed last year in Cook County.