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- Cook County evoting machines delay vote tabulation
- Electronic voting machines caused problems in Chicago's Cook County as election workers were unable to transmit vote tallies in Tuesday's Democratic primary, the Washington Post reports. Votes for an important local race, Democratic nominee for Cook County Board president, were delayed until Wednesday. llinois has received more...
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
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- 10 questions on practical transformation: An interview with Cook County's CIO
- As CIO of the second-largest county in the United States, Antonio Hylton is pursuing some major transformational goals. Find out about his job, his plan, and his vision of the future.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
- Download resources 2009-11-18
- Craigslist: 'Spectacular' decline in erotic services listings
- Craigslist, which is under fire from a lawsuit launched Cook County Illinois Sheriff Thomas Dart, has detailed its efforts with reducing "erotic services" listings on its site since it struck a deal with state authorities. In a blog post, Craigslist detailed its progress in ridding the site...
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- Is Craigslist 'Pimp 2.0'?
- Is Craigslist 'Pimp 2.0'?So the Cook County sheriff has been cut out of the loop?By the way this is reported, one could interpret this as the sheriff is unhappy because he can no longer get the cut he used to get (just an interpretation/theory).[i]At least that?s what Cook County Sheriff...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-06
- Is Craigslist 'Pimp 2.0'?
- The Web was supposed to be the "disintermediator" - the destroyer of unnecessary middlemen. Craiglist might have been intended to disintermediate newspaper classified advertising although Craig always denied that but now it seems it has become the ultimate disintermediator - a pimp. At least that's...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- Sheriff: Craigslist is "single largest source of prostitution"
- Sheriff: Craigslist is "single largest source of prostitution"Does raise some interesting questions......like does Craigslist actually do business in Illinois? While have a hard time imagining what sorts of "erotic services" would not be prostitution, and I wouldn't allow such a category if I was running the site, I don't...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- Sheriff: Craigslist is "single largest source of prostitution"
- The Cook County Sheriff in Illinois (that's Chicago, folks) will stand in front of a podium in just a few minutes to announce a lawsuit against online classified site Craigslist, calling it "the single largest source of prostitution in the nation," according to news reports. Last June,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- The insurers bid to fix health care
- The insurers bid to fix health carethe problem isthat no one wants to lay the blame where it belongs. Government. Because that would mean killing socialized medicine.Bingo!!Blanky doesn't want to admit that tort reform *is* needed. My sister is a doc...the cost to her for malpractice insurance is shocking....
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Earth Day – have a gas
- Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Our students will need to drive e-voting
- Our students will need to drive e-votingEvoting vs Paper voting.Chris,That's a great question. I sent my wife teacher this link to ask her opinion and also ask her to talk to a few students to see what they say. I'll be interested in what they have to say.In my...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- CEDA on Call to Fight Poverty With Verizon Business Contact Center Solutions
- CEDA is a nonprofit community action agency with an annual budget of more than $150 million serving approximately 375,000 Cook County residents. Without reporting on daily call volumes, CEDA had no visibility into when inbound spikes would occur, nor could it easily identify high-call-volume days. CEDA recognized that something needed...
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- More on Illinois
- More on IllinoisWhat new?Isn't that what all money-grubbing politicians do?Lawyers? Opposition?If the scheme is anything like as excessively expensive and risky as you fear then surely it is a gift for the political opposition?And are there no tax-payer groups ready to sue?State agenciesGovernment is often resistant to change and not...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- E-voting a fiasco?
- Jon Stokes has a post-mortem of the election day e-voting problems, and though you wont read much about the problems - or see them - in the national media, Stokes writes, they were myriad. Its not anecdotal - Common Cause logged 16,000 calls on their hotline. Proof that mechanical...
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- Cook County Hospitals and County Departments Reduce Costs With Avaya Solution Deployed by Accuvoice
- Spanning 950 square miles, Cook County, Ill., is the second-largest county in the United States. The challenge was to increase its level of customer service to citizens who were often unable to get the information or help they needed from County agencies via telephone, increase its system capacity for employees...
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- HP BladeSystem Brings Good Government and Streamlined Operations to the Citizens of Cook County, Illinois
- The Circuit Court of Cook County is one of the world's largest unified trial courts, with a caseload of nearly 2 million new cases annually. The challenge was to upgrade obsolete technology throughout the Clerk's Office to improve timeliness and accuracy of record keeping, improve customer service, strengthen efficiency, facilitate...
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- Leading Tuberculosis Treatment Facility Eases Work Order Process With Electronic Forms
- To keep pace with clinic activity and best serve the public, Suburban Cook County Tuberculosis Sanitarium District SCCTSD staff must be able to efficiently initiate and track work orders. SCCTSD uses paper forms with carbon copies to initiate and track work orders. The paper-based process is time-consuming, makes it difficult...
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