JUNE 3, 2011 — In response to BGA/FOX Chicago News investigations into credit card usage at city agencies, Mayor Rahm Emanuel takes action to curb abuse by cancelling all city credit cards.
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Emanuel Cuts City Agency Credit Card Use After BGA/FOX Investigation
In response to our recent investigations into credit card usage at city agencies, Mayor Rahm Emanuel took action to curb abuse.
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BGA Investigations Prompt Early Exit for Parks Chief
Recent BGA/FOX Chicago News investigations reportedly are hastening Chicago Park District Supt. Tim Mitchell’s departure, which follows the forced exit of his chief of staff.
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INVESTIGATIONS PROMPT RESIGNATION
JUNE 1, 2011 — BGA/FOX Chicago News investigations reportedly hasten Chicago Park District Superintendent Tim Mitchell’s departure, which follows the forced exit of his chief of staff.
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EARLY RETIREMENT
MAY 2011 — A series of investigations by the BGA and the Post-Tribune find that a high-ranking official with the Hobart (Ind.) Fire Department had quietly sold or traded municipal property—including a snowmobile, workout equipment and an old fire truck—to current and former members of the department, with little or no documentation. The official retires as police launch a
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After BGA Inquiry, Cops Probe NW Indiana Fire Truck Swap
In Hobart, Ind., police are trying to see why a city-owned fire truck was apparently traded to a former firefighter for a batch of computers—and whether any laws were violated.
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Open and Transparent Gov’t is Under Attack — Tell Your Lawmakers to Vote NO on HB1716
HB1716, SA1—the FOIA rollback bill—creates a new category of FOIA requester: the “recurrent requester,” referred to as a “vexatious requester” in earlier versions of the legislation.
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Working or Working it?
Was ex-Oak Brook village president putting in a full day’s work for a full day’s pay at his Illinois secretary of state job? State concludes probe, which was prompted by inquiries from the BGA.
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RAMPED-UP RENOVATIONS
MAY 20, 2011 — After the BGA and FOX Chicago News report that the Chicago Park District is dragging its feet repairing the Garfield Park Gymnasium, which serves at-risk youth on the West Side, the agency ramps up renovations.
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Floored: Park District Slow to Repair Vital West Side Gymnasium
The Garfield Park Gymnasium, a ‘second home’ for West Side children, is out of commission for the summer. It has yet to be repaired since a flood almost a year ago.