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A few aldermen and former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger were among the Chicago officials and employees who didn’t file their ethics statements on time, the city Board of Ethics announced Thursday.

The Ethics Board released a list of the names of 98 people who didn’t get their economic interest statements in by May 31. Most who missed that first deadline had them in by this Wednesday, and so avoided fines.

Among those who got the statement in late, according to the list, was Todd Stroger, the onetime head of the county board who lost a re-election bid to current Board President Toni Preckwinkle in 2010. Stroger now works for South Side Ald. Howard Brookins Jr., 21st. Stroger’s ethics statement was not available Thursday on the Ethics Board Website.

Also on the list was freshman Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, 35th, a member of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus who’s known for taking strident good government positions on the council floor. Ramirez-Rosa got his statement in a day late, on June 1, and listed no outside compensation or other financial interests.

John Garrido, a police lieutenant who has twice run unsuccessfully for 45th Ward alderman against John Arena, missed the filing deadline by a bit over a week. Garrido lists his work at a law firm where he’s a partner, his ownership of a two-flat and his involvement in a local school council, a chamber of commerce and a neighborhood organization. (John Byrne)

What's on tap

*Mayor Rahm Emanuel will deliver graduation remarks at Joseph Brennenmann Elementary School.

*Gov. Bruce Rauner has no public events.

*The Chicago Board of Ethics is expected to release the names of two people it found violated the city's lobbying law.

From the notebook

*Lottery continuing appropriation?: The association that oversees Powerball and Mega Millions is threatening to end the games in Illinois if no budget deal is reached by month's end. There might be another option short of a budget, however.

Rockford Republican Sen. Dave Syverson said Thursday he was hopeful final action could be taken on a bill during the special session that would make funding transfers involving the lottery automatic and not subject to legislative approval. (Rick Pearson)

*Pay Now Illinois update: Social service agencies who haven’t been paid for the services they provide on behalf of the stalemated state government will turn their hopes to a St. Clair County judge after an appellate court in Chicago dismissed an attempt to have their bills pushed to the front of the line.

The Pay Now Illinois coalition of providers, who deliver services like sexual assault counseling, home visits for seniors and early childhood education for low-income families, had sought a court order that would compel the comptroller’s office to start paying their bills, which are being held up in the state’s $15 billion backlog of bills. The group originally brought suit in Cook County, where an appellate court on Thursday ruled that the providers would have to take their cases to the court of claims.

Pay Now Illinois Chair Andrea Durbin said getting a resolution from the court of claims could take years. She suggested that social service agencies, which the state relies upon to deliver services to needy families and individuals, rethink renewing their contracts with the state.

“Providers contemplating contracts for FY18 should consider the state of affairs as it exists today,” Durbin said in a statement. “We have no budget for FY17 or FY18, the partisan warfare continues in Springfield, and at this point we have a total breakdown in the functioning of our state.”

A related case is pending in St. Clair County, where the coalition hopes they might find a more sympathetic audience in Circuit Court Judge Robert LeChien. His is the same court that’s repeatedly ruled in favor of keeping paychecks going out to the state’s workforce on time and in full, even though the General Assembly and governor haven’t agreed on appropriations to authorize the payments. The reasoning for that order is that failure to pay the state workers would violate their collective bargaining agreement. The social service providers say they have contracts with the state, too, and those contract should be honored.

LeChien heard arguments in the case on Wednesday, but has yet to rule. (Kim Geiger)