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Chicago City Council
An open letter to aldermen says the Mayor’s blueprint needs greater scrutiny and more public accountability. It urges the City Council to vote no, or to delay and review, the controversial ordinance.
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BGA Public Eye
Apr 13, 2012 07:54 AM
As talk of streamlining government intensifies in Cook County, the sheriff suggests that one way to save taxpayer money is for his police force to assume more policing duties from suburban departments.​
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2012 Edward R. Murrow Awards
Apr 12, 2012 04:42 PM
The Better Government Association and the Center on Wrongful Convictions won a prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for the June 2011 investigation into the “High Cost of Wrongful Convictions”, a groundbreaking series documenting the human and financial toll of alleged government and police misconduct that led to 85 people being wrongfully incarcerated for violent crimes they didn’t commit.
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double dip
Apr 09, 2012 08:00 AM
New legal opinion says municipal leaders shouldn’t be allowed to simultaneously serve on county board. That’s worrying several political figures in DuPage and Cook counties – and it’s prompted legislation that would protect dual officeholders.
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BGA Public Eye
Apr 06, 2012 12:59 AM
What happens if you lie to Chicago’s inspector general? Not a lot, it seems, if you're a City Clerk employee who was investigated by the in-house watchdog for, among other things, allegedly keeping pornography on his work computer and then lying about it.
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Tom Sheahan
Apr 03, 2012 02:19 PM
Former Oak Brook Police Chief Thomas Sheahan thinks he deserves a special pension gift quietly bestowed by the Legislature just for him. He doesn’t.
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Tom Sheahan
Mar 31, 2012 01:34 AM
Oak Brook’s clout-heavy former police chief is unapologetic about benefitting from a taxpayer-funded pension sweetener quietly passed by the General Assembly in 2007.
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BGA Public Eye
Mar 30, 2012 10:35 AM
Add President Barack Obama to the list of current and former Illinois lawmakers who may have violated the lone rule of the controversial legislative scholarship program: that the recipient live within the awarding lawmaker’s district.
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Ex-City Colleges Chief Gets “A+” in Personal Finance
Mar 29, 2012 09:43 AM
While departing Chicago’s troubled community college network to take a job running Chicago State University, Wayne Watson secured taxpayer-funded benefits that are much more lucrative than previously known – totaling as much as $800,000.
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Burke
Mar 27, 2012 07:10 AM
Having made millions of dollars on government deals for milk and electrical and plumbing work, the McMahon family routinely gives back to politicians.
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