X- "County Board Post: A Part-Time Job?" - Task Force - Chicago Tribune

 ". . .Board members are not required to divorce themselves from these other activities, but the county budget explicitly states they are being paid for a full-time job. Some commissioners concede their work requires less than eight hours a day, but nearly all of them have a secretary and one or even two adminstrative assistants. . .

Description:Tenth of the Task Force series on financial waste in county government.

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Tenth of the Task Force series on financial waste in county government.