If it's galling to you, as a taxpayer, to see Cook County payingsix figures to someone who has no clear duties, imagine what a wearyprosecutor must be feeling. Assistant state's attorneys have beendenied raises for several years due to the county's fiscal mess, yetthe county somehow finds a way to pay Gerald Nichols, former CountyBoard President John Stroger's patronage chief, $114,000 a year.Raises have also gone to the unionized lawyers in the publicdefender's office, while prosecutors got nothing.
The result is a disparity in pay between public defenders andprosecutors that is undermining morale in the state's attorney'soffice and threatening to create an exodus of …
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