Policy

It’s disappointing, and at times heartbreaking, to watch the city’s Animal Care and Control agency (ACC) doing what critics consider a poor job of handling lost, abandoned and stray pets and wildlife.

Fewer watchdogs and less vigilance in the seat of state government presented the Better Government Association with a challenge and an opportunity as we considered the best way to fulfill one of our key objectives: Expanding the scope and impact of our watchdog work beyond the Chicago area.

We take ’em to court, because we won’t tolerate attempts to abuse or weaken the state’s open records law.

Illinois is just one of several states teetering precariously on the edge of the fiscal cliff.

The BGA found at least fifteen Cook County suburbs that are now billing non-residents after providing emergency responses to their accidents.

The Emanuel administration apparently made enough progress in wringing illegal politics out of hiring, firing and promotions at City Hall to finally shed the yoke of a court-appointed monitor who’s been policing personnel decisions for the past decade.

You’ve seen it before — riveting images of torch-and-pitchfork-wielding citizens so angry they’re not going to take it anymore.

McPier created a nonprofit to operate the Pier, but now they’re refusing to release any meaningful information about the Pier’s operation on the grounds that, as a nonprofit, it’s not a government agency and therefore exempt from the state’s open records law.