BGA to Chicago City Council: Delay Infrastructure Trust Plan
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Update: Mayor Emanuel Delays Infrastructure Showdown
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel agreed to slow down his bid to establish a new financing vehicle designed to repair and upgrade public works projects.
Posted inPress Release
BGA to Chicago City Council: Delay Infrastructure Trust Plan
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.
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation, Newsroom
Is a New Sheriff Coming to Your Town?
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.
Posted inPress Release
BGA Wins Prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award
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
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation
Are Double-Dipping Days Over For Suburban Mayors?
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.
Posted inFollow-Up, Legal, Results & Reforms
CHICAGO SCHOOLS INVESTIGATING POLITICALLY CONNECTED MILK CONTRACTOR
The Chicago Board of Education’s inspector general is investigating the school system’s largest milk-delivery company, McMahon Food Corp., which recently lost its certification as a woman-owned business. A Chicago Sun-Times/Better Government Association investigation last month found that the school system is paying more for milk than many suburban districts that are a
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation, Newsroom
City Watchdog to Get Sharper Teeth?
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.
Posted inAnalysis, Perspective, Policy
Editorial: Former Oak Brook Chief’s Undeserved Pension Bonanza
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.
Posted inFollow-Up, Legal, Results & Reforms
GRASSROOTS EMPOWERMENT
Prompted by revelations from the BGA and FOX Chicago, residents of Stone Park and surrounding communities banded together to oppose the construction of a strip club next to a convent, question whether village officials violated the law in approving the project and keep a closer eye on local elected leaders.