Madison Hopkins

Citing an investigation by the BGA that revealed systemic failures in Chicago’s Blue Cart recycling program, aldermen demand public examination aimed at improving the city’s worst-in-the-nation programs.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to take recycling to Chicago’s high-rises and commercial buildings has fallen short because of lax enforcement and a series of bureaucratic snafus.

Un análisis hecho por BGA/Medill revela que las acciones de vigilancia para el cumplimiento de la ley ambiental disminuyeron bajo los dos mandatos del alcalde. El número de inspectores se recortó cuando el alcalde redujo costos.

A BGA/Medill analysis shows environmental enforcement declined under the two-term mayor. City inspection staff was slashed as mayor cut costs.

After the BGA reveals how tons of recycling is diverted to landfills by a private company that stands to profit, a top city official tells aldermen he is moving to fix the problem.

With Mayor Rahm Emanuel not running for a third term, read what some of those seeking to replace him think should happen to the city’s much-maligned residential recycling program.

Gov. Rauner’s administration has halted plans to scale back an in-home senior care program. The proposed reduction had faced criticism from the Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter, Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans and SEIU Healthcare Illinois.

Taxpayer-funded health systems settle dozens of wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits over five-year period, BGA finds.