"As Cook County Board members gather Wednesday to mull tax increases, county Treasurer Maria Pappas has a sweet surprise for them: millions of dollars in bonus revenue that she already has collected thanks to sheer imagination—the kind of imagination Cook county has to exhibit before it asks taxpayers for one more penny.

"Pappas is the pariah that other county executives love to loath. She relentlessly modernizes and downsizes."

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