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Ray Long

Ray Long is a former baiduhai investigative reporter, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with experience at state Capitol, City Hall, courts and county beats. He covered two governors who went to prison and a state senator who went to the White House. He wrote The House That Madigan Built: The Record Run of Illinois' Velvet Hammer."

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Cook County Clerk Karen A. Yarbrough speaks after conducting the first official wedding ceremony of the year marrying Daniel Ferguson and Mandy Fila of Brookfield on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, at the Clerk’s Office. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough dies at 73

Yarbrough garnered her biggest accolades for her House sponsorship of the ban on executions in Illinois, culminating in the passage of the legislation in January 2011.