The Chicago Park District is taking a hard look at how business is done after we questioned what top park officials were doing with their credit cards.
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Mayor Daley’s Name Turns Up In FBI Files On Embezzler John F. Duff Jr.
FBI documents obtained by the BGA raise fresh questions about just how close the Duffs were to Daley—and what sort of City Hall access they enjoyed during the mayor’s soon-to-end tenure.
Posted inGovernment Finance & Accountability
Taxpayers Shouldered Chicago Park District Chief of Staff’s Credit Card Charges
The Chicago Park District suspended one of its top officials Wednesday night, after the BGA and FOX Chicago News began asking questions.
Posted inInvestigations, News, Newsroom
Sticker Shock: Our State Pols’ Platinum Pensions
As part of our Rescuing Illinois Project, we investigative the millions of dollars in pension benefits guaranteed to former statewide office holders.
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Want Reform? Get Ready to Rumble
If Gov. Pat Quinn and the Illinois General Assembly are serious about saving money by changing the pension benefits of current state workers, they will probably need to pick a nasty and costly court fight with labor.
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Explainer: What is GARS?
It’s the General Assembly Retirement System and it’s virtually broke—a sorry situation shared by other major state-backed employee pension plans, which must increasingly rely on taxpayer-supported financing and accounting gimmicks to shore them up.
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Dumped-On Englewood Watchdog Blasts City, Bags Clean-up
Watchdog Theresa Jones got new neighbors a few weeks ago: bags and bags of garbage. The BGA and FOX Chicago News’ Dane Placko report.
Posted inNews, Results & Reforms
WATCHDOG WINS CLEAN-UP
APRIL 26, 2011 — An Englewood resident who complained about illegal dumping in a vacant lot next to her home finally sees results — after the BGA and FOX Chicago News get involved and start asking questions of the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation, which ultimately cleared away the rat-infested debris.
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Elderly Couple Endures A Knock-Down Fight With Chicago Bureaucracy
For two months, an elderly South Side couple contested a $1,300 bill from the city for a property they never owned.
Posted inNews, Results & Reforms
CHICAGO BUREAUCRATS BACK OFF
APRIL 25, 2011 — City bureaucrats who had been insisting that an elderly South Side couple owe the government more than $1,300 for a garage tear-down finally back off after the BGA investigates and presents evidence that the couple did not own the garage in question.
