Same-sex couples who work for Cook County won't lose their benefits if they get married in other states under a proposal county commissioners advanced Tuesday. The amendment, offered in light of recent decisions legalizing gay marriage in California and Massachusetts, would change a 9-year-old ordinance that extended the county's medical and other benefits to same-sex couples who were living together. Under the ordinance, same-sex married couples are ineligible for the benefits. "We weren't thinking about this possibility" of marriage in other states, said Commissioner Mike Quigley (D-Chicago). "It doesn't extend any benefits," Quigley said of the amendment. "It doesn't ...