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
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BGA Updates Popular Payroll Database With 2011 Salaries
BGA Updates Popular Payroll Database With 2011 Salaries
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Legislative Lovefest Far From Picture Perfect
Legislative Lovefest Far From Picture Perfect
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ROUNDUP: Peepers, Parkers and Loaders — Oh My!
ROUNDUP: Peepers, Parkers and Loaders — Oh My!
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Bloomberg News: Feds Falling Down on FOIA
Bloomberg News, an international finance and political information service, found that major U.S. federal government agencies are too slow or are outright failing to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests.
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Dangerous Political Terrain in Maywood?
Check out the following “musing” by Maywood Village Clerk Gary Woll, a veteran political figure in the near western suburb.
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Big Changes Follow BGA Investigations
Big Changes Follow BGA Investigations
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Lemont Pol’s iPhone Woes Puts the Byte on Taxpayers
Lemont Pol’s iPhone Woes Puts the Byte on Taxpayers
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ROUNDUP: Politics (and tickets) as usual
ROUNDUP: Politics (and tickets) as usual