* Sun-Times…

Three incumbent Cook County commissioners who are seeking another term — including two county board members facing Democratic primary challenges on March 17 — each missed more than 20% of the meetings they were supposed to be at since the beginning of the current term, a WBEZ analysis of county records has found.

The station compiled and analyzed the attendance records from 800 public meetings since the four-year term began in December 2022, finding that the sitting commissioners who did not show up with the greatest frequency were Stanley Moore, Bridget Gainer and Kisha McCaskill. […]

Moore historically had not missed many meetings in the years after taking office in 2013, but he acknowledged being absent frequently from board sessions in the last three years because, he said, he was the primary caregiver for three close family members with serious illnesses. […]

Among incumbent board members, Gainer had the second-worst record, missing nearly 23% of her meetings. But that represented an improvement compared to her truancy rate between 2013 and 2018, when an investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times revealed Gainer had missed nearly a third of all the meetings she was expected to be present for during that five-year period.

* The chart…

[Also, I’ve given Isabel most of the day off, so we won’t be running an afternoon update today. She’s gone above and beyond this week.]