Illinois Government Needs An X-Ray Machine

Imagine you’re about to have heart surgery. Would you want your doctor operating on your heart in the dark? Or without looking at your...

Illinois Government Needs An X-Ray Machine

“Who’s Posting?” list updated

We’ve updated our “Who’s Posting Expenditures in Illinois?” list today to include the Highland Park D133...

“Who’s Posting?” list updated

We’ve updated our “Who’s Posting Expenditures In Illinois?” to include Coal City Community Unit School D1.  We have also...

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New Transparent School District - Riverside Brookfield

Posted by Kate Campaigne

A big thanks to Riverside Brookfield High School D208 for joining the list of transparent government bodies in Illinois! And, thank you, Adam Andrzejewski, for your continued hard work!

What school district will be next? County board? Park…

Blago and the era of the bailout

This should be shocking…and yet… nothing shocks me these days.

Blagojevich also wants the federal government to put Illinois on the list of states seeking relief under any kind of economic stimulus package. Specifically, the governor wants more than $1 billion…

Surprised? You Shouldn’t Be.

CTA strikes again. See here for brief details.

Like we have said before, the CTA needs transparency. In order to get its budget under control, find wasteful spending, weed it out, and clean up the budget — rather than letting budget mismanagement and waste continue, “solving” the problem by raising fares over, and over, and over again and throwing blame around — implementing transparency would provide the first step to solving the CTA’s budget problems.

Liberty Leaders stand up for transparency at Parkland College

Last night, Liberty Leaders Dianna Visek and John Bambenek attended a special meeting of the Parkland College board of trustees to ask them to be more forthcoming about their finances and financial decisions. The board wants to borrow $87 million…

CTA…Olympics…Obama…and more

WWBOD? What would Barack Obama do? Seriously… why are Illinois “elected officials…talking…that the Barack Obama presidency will do much of the heavy lifting” to shape up the CTA?

“Spent Under a Shroud of Secrecy”

Posted by Kate Campaigne

Here’s a blurb out of a good article from Charleston, SC making the case for transparency:

“Empowering ordinary citizens with the access to how money is spent and how their representatives vote will help safeguard the public trust,…

Teachers Union Contracts

Posted by Kate Campaigne

Negotiations between school boards and teachers unions should be open to the public.  Huntley School D158 posts its negotiations online, but I am not aware of other school districts in Illinois that do this, yet. The following…

How does the Cayman Islands look at FOIA?

Although it’s for the Cayman Islands, I thought that this was an insightful video that shows how government looks at the citizens’ right to know. Have you seen any FOIA videos like this stateside? Are the training videos and other…

More Transparency Pledge Signatories!

Our transparency pledge page has been updated to include the newest signatories of the pledge!  Have your elected officials and preferred candidates signed on?

These candidates and elected officials have already committed to transparency:

Michael Connelly: Candidate for 48th Illinois Rep. District- August…

Illinois Government Needs An X-Ray Machine

Illinois Government Needs An X-Ray Machine

Imagine you’re about to have heart surgery. Would you want your doctor operating on your heart in the dark? Or without looking at your x-ray first? Without an x-ray, he wouldn’t know where to operate, the severity of your sickness…