Cook County assessor’s office launches investigation to determine whether its employees are improperly gaining property tax breaks on their own homes.
Patrick Rehkamp
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Fire Department Prescribes Investigation into Expired Medications
Probe follows other examinations into questionable practices and missteps.
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City Ambulance Confusion Delays Treatment for Wounded Man
The Better Government Association and CBS 2 report on the case of a stabbing victim whose care, according to sources, was botched and postponed.
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Lansing Kills Public Pension Perk
After a Better Government Association investigation found the Village of Lansing giving retiring police and firefighters raises on their last day of work, the board voted to repeal the pension sweetener.
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Salaries Rise at PBC While Image Falls
Public Building Commission – a public agency tasked with helping the city and county with construction – doles out big raises to employees, as other embarrassments surface.
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Thieves Target City Equipment
While municipal facilities are plundered in Chicago – with crooks making off with everything from truck wheels to tools and rolls of costly copper wire – bureaucrats struggle to answer: Why is security so bad?
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Lansing’s Last-Day Raises Last a Lifetime
Taxpayers are left holding the bag as Lansing leaders give pay hikes to cops and firefighters as they retire – prompting pensions to soar.
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Local Government Has Obesity Problem
Public agencies need a crash diet, with unnecessary units of government eliminated and duplicative functions consolidated.
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Summertime Clout in the Southwest Suburbs
How did the teenaged sons of a Cook County commissioner from Orland Park end up with good-paying summer jobs with the local fire department? The agency’s former human resources director says political favoritism played a part.
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County Bodyguard Puts Car in Body Shop
The top bodyguard for Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is in the news again, this time for crashing an unmarked squad car while preparing for the next morning’s politician pick-up.
