• Dorothy Brown, clerk of the Cook County Circuit Court, admits the FBI seized her cell phone as it probes the fortuitous financial transactions of her and her husband. Though Brown shamelessly asserts that the office she’s led for four terms is a “model for the country,” it is more properly described as a patronage den and bureaucratic disaster of disappearing files and dinosaur age technology. But only now are Democratic committeemen canceling their endorsement of her 2016 re-election.