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BGA Honors 2010 Investigative Award Winners

Last year, municipal leaders in Oak Brook hired a law firm to get to the bottom of three things: how the now-former police chief, Tom Sheahan, was hired in 2005 by the village government under a previous regime; how Sheahan quietly ended up with a 2007 pension sweetener that put Oak Brook taxpayers on the hook for an extra $750,000 in liabilities; and how the now-former

Last month Bill Beavers was found guilty of using his campaign funds as a personal piggy bank – of plunking down vast amounts of cash at slot machines and not reporting it as income. Until that conviction in federal court, the former South Side alderman and Cook County commissioner wasn’t regarded so much a crook as a character.

BGA Updates Popular Payroll Database With 2011 Salaries

Couple things caught our eye today that we wanted to pass along.

The Yarbroughs aren’t going quietly into the night in Maywood.

Central Illinois School District Flunks Open Meetings Test

Mourning One of our Own

Candidate for Cook County Pension Post Pleaded Guilty In 1985 Vote Fraud Case

U.S. authorities say Rita Crundwell allegedly funneled money from city coffers into building and furnishing a mini-mansion near Sarasota, Fla. before being arrested and indicted for allegedly stealing $53 million from the downstate municipality.