How much do YOU pay Todd Stroger? CookEmployees.com reveals all!
Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica has brought the county to another level of transparency with his cookemployees.com site. This site is a central list to get salary information on all employees of the county, as well as vendor contract from …
Strange Taxes
Earlier this month, CBS 2 Chicago with the help of the Illinois Policy Institute, ran a story about the various taxes you pay in the City of Chicago. While “What are you shelling out for taxes?” was a …
Peraica Signs Transparency Pledge
Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica becomes the first to sign the Transparency Pledge. Peraica who represents the 16th district, has been an strong supporter of transparency. On February 4th, he introduced a resolution to put the check register online, which …
DuPage and Cook Counties Lead the Way.
As you may know, on Wednesday the Cook County Board passed a resolution to put its check register online. Today, the Southtown Star article, “Tracking your Tax Dollars: Cook County get with the program,” highlights not only the …
Arlington Heights mayoral candidate gets it right on transparency
I love reading news stories that attribute pro-transparency quotes to public officials (or even candidates). An article in today’s Daily Herald about Arlington Heights mayoral candidate Phillip Walter definitely fits the bill.
Phillip Walter said if Arlington Heights officials truly
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Wilson Yard TIF
As mentioned in a recent TIF brief, the Wilson Yard TIF located in Uptown provides a good example of why tax increment financing (TIF) needs transparency.
2000 residents have filed a lawsuit against Chicago, citing abuses in the creation, planning, …
More candidates jump on board the transparency tran!
(That means that they’ve signed our Transparency Pledge, in case you were wondering.)
Our new signatories include members of the newly-formed Riverside Community Alliance, a slate of candidates running on a platform of fiscal responsibility, business development and, you …
Root Out Corruption with Transparency
The Times ran my op-ed yesterday about transparency’s role in rooting out corruption in Illinois government at both the local and state level.
With the recent Blagojevich corruption case, the need for transparency in state spending and Illinois politics is …
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.
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?
