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
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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.
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation
“I Deserve Every Penny”
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.
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation, Newsroom
Does Obama Need Schooling on Scholarships?
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
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.
Posted inFollow-Up, Legal, Results & Reforms
EMANUEL MOVES TO BAN McMAHON ELECTRIC COMPANY FROM CITY WORK
As the BGA and Chicago Sun-Times inquired about government contracts held by the clout-heavy McMahon family, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel moved to permanently ban their electrical contracting company from getting more city work because of allegations they fraudulently set up the company as woman-owned to get a leg up on city contracts. Click here to read more.
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Money made selling milk to governments helps Burke, other pols
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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Inspector general wants McMahon business banned from city work
McMahon family business faces possible loss of city business over the city inspector general’s finding that it once fraudulently presented itself as owned and operated by women.