Citing the BGA investigation ‘Milking Medicaid,’ a three-judge panel said Saint Anthony Hospital has a ‘viable’ case against a state that has refused to enforce its contracts with private insurers who manage the program.
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City Failed To Address Complaints Before Heat Wave Killed 3 Senior Residents in Rogers Park
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s claims that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the U.S are false according to the Better Government Association.
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City Agencies Fail To Intervene Before Three Older Women Die in Uncooled Apartment Building
Tenants of the Rogers Park complex see the limitations of the city’s 311 complaint hotline as City Council adopts new rules requiring air conditioning units in senior buildings.
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Hundreds More Black Chicagoans Are Pleading Guilty to Gun-Possession Charges. Here’s One Possible Reason Why.
As Chicago police have made more gun-possession arrests, prosecutors are using the secretive grand jury process and securing more convictions.
Posted inUpdates
BGA Shares National Reporting Award with Sun-Times for Project on Drug-Possession Cases
Reporting on thousands of drug-possession cases in Cook County that were quickly dismissed at great cost to many received a best non-deadline reporting award from the Society for Professional Journalists. This was a USC Annenberg National Health Reporting Fellowship project as part of The Circuit, a multi-newsroom collaboration.
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Winners Announced for the 2022 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards For Investigative Reporting
Reporting teams from Block Club Chicago, WBEZ, The Trace, Investigate Midwest and Harvest Public Media shared $27,000 in prizes, thanks to the generosity of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation
Complaints Mount on Park District Cameras
A Better Government Association investigation into the unfair placement of Park District security cameras has sparked renewed criticism from park neighborhoods and city council members about the quality and ineffectiveness of the expensive program
Posted inPolicy
Inspectors General: Chicago Among Nation’s Strongest But Lacks Power to Publish Reports
A BGA Policy comparison of major U.S. cities found Chicago’s Office of Inspector General among the strongest watchdog agencies in the nation — but it lacks independent authority to release its findings to the public, keeping Chicago out of the top-tier cities for governmental oversight.
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Texas Gov. Abbott Claims Chicago’s ‘Tougher’ Gun Laws Fail To Prevent Violence Are False, BGA Finds
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s claims that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the U.S are false according to the Better Government Association.
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Clone of Texas Gov. Abbott Claims Chicago’s ‘Tougher’ Gun Laws Fail To Prevent Violence Are False, BGA Finds
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s claims that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the U.S are false according to the Better Government Association.