Via Chicago Tribune By Gregory Pratt, Tribune reporter Every year, Tinley Park officials spend tens of thousands of dollars printing three newsletters that tout the town’s virtues.In a recent edition of the Tinley Park Exchange, Mayor Ed Zabrocki lauded the…
Read MoreFrom the Daily Herald Marni Pyke Getting riders to their destinations safely and on time. That’s Metra’s mission but now you could add another responsibility — saving people from confusion. Illinois Inspector General Ricardo Meza opened a can of worms…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Tribune By Hal Dardick, Tribune reporter Mayor Rahm Emanuel and aldermen won’t grapple this fall with the financial reckoning the city faces over its underfunded police and fire pension systems, budget officials acknowledged Thursday. Instead, the Emanuel…
Read MoreVia the Daily Herald Labor Day, the unofficial opening of campaign season, is still a month away, but one new and potentially big strategy in politicians’ campaigns for votes starts next week. View full article
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune By Hal Dardick Clout Street The City Council today voted to give the job of campaign finance oversight of aldermen to a city agency that doesn’t want it, a move that the council’s watchdog said will…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Tribune By Pat O’Connor and Joe Moore One of Chicago’s best-known and most reprehensible aldermanic quotes is that “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” Then-Ald. Mathias “Paddy” Bauler’s (1935-1943 and 1947-1967) legendary resistance to cleaning up city…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Tribune By Hal Dardick Clout Street Today’s Chicago City Council meeting pregame could feature a showdown between aldermen and the watchdog who is supposed to investigate them. The agenda of the Rules Committee, which huddles before the…
Read MoreVia WTTW Chicago Tonight Big money, bare-knuckle, Washington-style politics come to Chicago. Two new Political Action Committees, or PACs, are going head-to-head over Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s re-election, as well as the election of aldermanic candidates who support or oppose him….
Read MoreFrom the New York Times By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE JULY 28, 2014 An unlikely alliance of liberal intellectuals, big donors and Republican strategists has hit on a solution to the influence of big money in politics: even more money. Starting Monday,…
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Sun-Times It’s not enough for an inspector general to understand how things work behind the scenes. An IG must also be clearly independent. The General Assembly’s new acting inspector general, J. William Roberts, certainly qualifies on the…
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