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Cook County will now provide a searchable online database regarding lobbyists’ activities, according to the Daily Herald.

A court-appointed watchdog group claims Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is “using the county payroll to reward those who backed his failed re-election effort and punish those who did not,” the Chicago Tribune reports.

Thousands of blue recycling carts totaling nearly $1 million in value are sitting idle in a warehouse in Chicago, the Sun-Times reports.

The media has been uncovering some interesting spending from Cook County’s newly launched check registry, such as this find from The Prairie Stater, which discovered $76,291 in checks paid to Elgin-based ACE Coffee Holdings, Inc. since…

Want to find out how Cook County is spending your tax dollars?

Check out its check register here and see where your tax dollars are going.

ABC 7′s I-Team found some interesting expenses of note, such as $6,243.75…

After passing a transparency resolution about a year ago, Cook County has posted its check registry online and appears to be embracing spending transparency policy, describing their move as an “Open County Initiative,” which…

Sunshine Review wrote a good post about how transparency – or the lack thereof – from Cook County Board President Todd Stroger may have had a hand in why he lost in Tuesday’s election.

Check it out out here!

According to the Daily Herald, “Cook County Board President Todd Stroger said today he would release his tax returns for the last two years on Thursday and called on his opponents in Tuesday’s Democratic Primary to do the…

How is that $87.8 million spent?

A Chicago Tribune piece today discusses how the “state Board of Education is looking into questions about the “accountability and transparency” of millions of dollars in state money that

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