Policy

County treasurer helps property owners understand how they’re getting burned by government bloat and soaring taxes.

County treasurer helps property owners understand how they’re getting burned by government bloat and soaring taxes.

Having information about potential conflicts of interest held by public officials is vital to ensuring our government is accountable to taxpayers—not to private or personal interests.

Illinois is home to more than 300 separate taxpayer supported boards and commissions, many of them costly and of dubious value. It’s a poster child for government excess — watchers watching watchers — that should have been streamlined years ago.

Illinois is home to more than 300 separate taxpayer supported boards and commissions, many of them costly and of dubious value. It’s a poster child for government excess — watchers watching watchers — that should have been streamlined years ago.

Mayor Emanuel is undermining his own reform claims by defending the awarding of a $99.4 million cleaning contract at O’Hare Airport to a local executive with a history of alleged mob ties. Turns out the mob angle is only one troubling aspect of the deal.

Mayor Emanuel is undermining his own reform claims by defending the awarding of a $99.4 million cleaning contract at O’Hare Airport to a local executive with a history of alleged mob ties. Turns out the mob angle is only one troubling aspect of the deal.

Illinois government is steaming toward a fiscal iceberg, and the ship of state easily could sink if our political captains don’t turn the wheel immediately.