• Budget pressures continued to squeeze Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle Wednesday. Not only did beverage tax opponents line up to testify for a repeal, but county workers hit with layoffs lobbied commissioners throughout the day to pass extra revenue measures, and Comm. Richard Boykin (D-1) accused her of manufacturing a budget crisis to pressure a judge to lift a restraining order on the county’s beverage tax.

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