Already hurting for revenues, troubled south suburb can’t explain $275,000 in water bill waivers and other fiscal irregularities.
Patrick Rehkamp
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Taxpayers Pay For Party At CSU Mansion
Controversial Chicago State University president lives at sprawling Beverly home, tosses elegant bash for neighbors, alumni.
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Sheriff’s Ex-Secretary Resigns Over Timekeeping Irregularities
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart’s former executive assistant is accused of padding her hours, resigns rather than face firing; Plus, clout on the sheriff’s merit board.
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Cop Scandal Player On Public Payroll – At City Colleges
Convicted in 1990 bribery case, ex-Chicago police officer has worked the last two decades as a security guard at City Colleges. He now stands to draw a taxpayer-subsidized pension.
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Suburban Pension Peril
Money in dozens of Chicago-area police and fire pension funds is drying up – which should be a big worry not only for current and future retirees, but taxpayers, a BGA Rescuing Illinois investigation discovers.
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New Watchdog, New Conflicts
Downstate attorney is appointed new inspector general for the Illinois Legislature, but he and his firm have ties to top lawmakers, raising questions about his independence.
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Brown’s Inside Pitch
Raising new ethical questions, the BGA and FOX 32 find Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown solicited underlings for a private side business. And we discover another curiosity involving her family and Gov. Quinn’s scandal-plagued grant program.
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Brown Still Looking For Green
Circuit Court clerk’s cash grab; Rosemont’s late mayor through the lens of the FBI; and which pols took campaign cash from McHugh since the company’s troubles surfaced.
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Family Conflict In General Assembly?
Legislator voted on grant programs that benefit his wife and the nonprofit where she works.
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The Stone Park Trifecta
A former mayor and two former police chiefs in Stone Park are drawing pensions from the village’s obscure little fund. What else do they have in common? All three are felons.