Government Finance & Accountability

The $45 billion statewide capital plan includes $4 billion in pet projects added by a handful of the state’s most powerful politicians, including the former speaker.

The probe focuses on the city’s role in vaccinations done at the suburban church when West Siders were struggling to get their shots.

Milking Medicaid: State-contracted insurance firms balk at paying frontline medical providers, threatening the viability of leading hospitals and clinics, and imperiling Illinois’ entire Medicaid program.

Milking Medicaid: The state health care agency has a revolving door for executives from the insurance industry.

After reports that doses went to ineligible people with ties to hospital administrators, a federal grand jury is investigating.

City pledges to follow through on promises it made when the Near North Side public housing complex was ordered demolished more than two decades ago.

The BGA and Chicago Tribune recently revealed the limitations of a new city “scofflaw list” that excludes hundreds of unsafe buildings because they don’t meet the lists’ complex criteria. Among the buildings that would have been excluded is the one where Eric Patton Smith’s daughter died.

The 98 buildings on City Hall’s new list of unsafe buildings — compiled after a BGA/Tribune investigation into its failure to enforce fire safety violations — would not have included buildings where 57 people died by fire in unsafe apartments. Lightfoot won’t comment.

Joliet Mayor Bob O’Dekirk is balancing his sometimes-controversial history with an ambitious plan to buy Lake Michigan water from Chicago and resell it throughout the region.

A union for more than 200 Loretto workers said it’s asked to meet three times with hospital leaders amid the scandals — only to be ignored.