• ABC 7 Chicago Weekend Watch

    Tune in to ABC-7 Saturday morning after 8:30 a.m. to catch the latest Weekend Watch segment where we focus a spotlight on government. This week Casey Toner will be discussing Lyons' upcoming mayoral election, current Mayor Chris Getty and the corruption investigation that surrounds him as he runs for a fourth term.

  • Casey Toner on WCPT 820 AM

    Investigative reporter Casey Toner, the author of the Lyons Corruption articles, will be appearing with Joan Esposito on WCPT 820 AM Monday, March 15 at 4 PM.

  • ABC 7 Chicago Weekend Watch

    Tune in to ABC-7 Saturday morning after 8:30 a.m. to catch the latest Weekend Watch segment where we focus a spotlight on government. This week David Kidwell will be discussing the updates on our 2018 Illinois Public Salaries Database which include: base pay, additional pay insights, and 42 new agencies covered.

  • ABC 7 Chicago Weekend Watch

    Tune in to ABC-7 Saturday morning after 8:30 a.m. to catch the latest Weekend Watch segment where we focus a spotlight on government. Our president, David Greising, will be discussing the bill Sen. Bill Cunningham presented that would make Navy Pier a public body under the Freedom Of Information Act and what that could mean for our Navy Pier lawsuit and the latest fight to make public the lucrative property's financial records.

  • ABC 7 Chicago Weekend Watch

    Tune in to ABC-7 Saturday morning after 8:30 a.m. to catch the latest Weekend Watch segment where we focus a spotlight on government. This week Olivia Obineme will be discussing the collaborative project called The Circuit, which is an unprecedented endeavor where the BGA, Injustice Watch and civic nonprofit Datamade dive into millions of case records we obtained from the Cook County Circuit Court.

  • ABC 7 Chicago Weekend Watch

    Tune in to ABC-7 Saturday morning after 8:30 a.m. to catch the latest Weekend Watch segment where we focus a spotlight on government. Olivia Obineme, will be discussing our new piece on Black-owned businesses and their experiences with applying to PPP funding.

  • ABC 7 Chicago Weekend Watch

    Tune in to ABC-7 Saturday morning after 8:30 a.m. to catch the latest Weekend Watch segment where we focus a spotlight on government. Madison Hopkins, will be discussing our latest investigation, The Failure Before the Fires. The Failure Before the Fires explores Chicago's fatal fires from 2014 through 2019. The Better Government Association and the Chicago Tribune discovered that 61 people died in these buildings the city already knew had dangerous fire hazards. City officials failed to hold property owners accountable. A majority of the victims were Black, and more than one-third were children.

  • ABC 7 Chicago Weekend Watch

    Tune in to ABC-7 Saturday morning after 8:30 a.m. to catch the latest Weekend Watch segment where we focus a spotlight on government. Olivia Obineme, will be discussing our latest analyisis on Ranked Choice Voting. Olivia joins Weekend Watch to talk about RCV and BGA Policy's take on the new election process.

  • ABC 7 Chicago Weekend Watch

    Tune in to ABC-7 Saturday morning after 8:30 a.m. to catch the latest Weekend Watch segment where we focus a spotlight on government. Kiannah Sepeda-Miller , will fact-check Gov. J.B. Pritzker critique that Republican lawmakers "have argued that they want an independent commission, but they didn't do anything about it."