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RTA Official on Business Troubles: ‘I, too, am not perfect.’

The BGA’s top ten investigations in 2012.

Cash from a Crook: Niles Mayor Takes Campaign Money from Imprisoned Predecessor

Dog Gone: Oak Brook Leader Returning Donation From Hot Dog Honcho

Find a specific court case and make photocopies of the entire file, my editor requested last week.It was a seemingly simple assignment, but if you’ve ever tried to navigate the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk’s offices you’d know that sometimes the most ordinary task can eat up hours of time – and seriously test patience.

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.