A group of Illinois retailers’ challenge to Cook County’s sweetened beverage tax has changed direction to address the county government’s motion to dismiss before it presses for a preliminary injunction.The turn in procedure came Tuesday when Cook County Circuit Judge Daniel J. Kubasiak entered an order striking a hearing scheduled for today, placing the parties into an expedited briefing schedule to hear the dismissal motion and continuing the matter to July 21. He extended the current restraining order …