CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) --It's the end of an era in Chicago: the 54-year-old Shakman case - a federal lawsuit that took aim at political patronage - is now closed.
It was attorney Michael Shakman who filed the lawsuit in 1969 to try to dismantle the political machine - to stop the hiring and firing of government workers based on their political loyalty.
Since then, court decisions and consent decrees have tried to re-shape government offices in Chicago, Cook County and on the state level to stop patronage.
And Thursday, a federal judge approved a motion to end oversight of the Cook County Clerk's office of Karen Yarbrough, the last office to have federal supervision lifted.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the judge acknowledged that Yarbrough's office took a “less cooperative approach with the compliance administrator” than some other offices.
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