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In a highly unusual move, the leader of a Downstate watchdog group places an entire park district board under a citizen’s arrest for failing to allow public comment and violating a state disclosure law.

Top administrator at Gov. Quinn’s transportation department won’t talk about how her stepdaughter was hired and promoted by the state-government agency. Were court-ordered anti-patronage rules followed?

Feds sniffing around municipal bookkeeper who has done work for numerous suburbs. Plus: Those paid to watch City of Chicago assets might have needed more watching.

Catholic nuns ramp up fight against Stone Park municipal government and local strip club (shown in photo, behind nun) that opened last year adjacent to convent. A lawsuit is in the works.

Village board wants to allow video gaming at taxpayer-owned retirement home for low-income senior citizens. Government regulators are now having second thoughts.

Education reformers, including charter-school advocates and out-of-state billionaires, are donating money to various Illinois campaigns. Plus: One principal is getting schooled.

Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown donates to campaign fund of judicial candidate – who happens to be Brown’s inspector general. Plus, Brown’s not alone in moonlighting.