Word comes from the triumphant lawyers Tuesday that Cook County and its insurers have agreed to pay out $55 million as compensation for illegal strip searches at the county jail between January of 2004 and March of 2009. The money will be split among as many as 250,000 people jailed and strip-searched during that period — the lawyers, Loevy & Loevy of Chicago, are asking for anyone who fits that description to come forward.
