And the circus continues. The Trib reports:

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger’s new chief of staff is a former Chicago Park District executive from Bridgeport who once gave his new boss a job.

Joseph Fratto, 52, an accountant who serves as the county’s comptroller, is taking a more conciliatory tone than his predecessor, Lance Tyson, whom some commissioners found strident. Fratto is pledging to reduce the number of county workers and to get yearly budgets passed