Board President Toni Preckwinkle is signing a contract Tuesday that will drastically reduce the cost of phone calls for jail detainees and their families.
Cook County commissioner William Beavers is accused of diverting more than $226,000 from campaign coffers for personal use without reporting it as income on his returns.
Lawmakers in other parts of the country, most recently the District of Columbia, have approved bills modeled after the policy. Some Republicans want the trend stopped.
