Cook County Check Register Live
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…
Kristina Rasmussen Speaks to the American Legislative Exchange Council about IllinoisOpenGov.org and Government Transparency.
Kristina Rasmussen addresses the American Legislative and Exchange Council and profiles IllinoisOpenGov.org. “There’s no reason why government has to own this information,” she said. IllinoisOpenGov, for example, has several features that its government run counterpart lacks, including providing…
Liberty Leader passes transparency in Urbana
Liberty Leader Dianna Visek scored another victory for fiscal transparency late last month in her home city of Urbana.
At the city council meeting last Monday [December 15], a resolution in favour of publishing of the
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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…
Liberty Leader Jeff Singer presents transparency to Chicago Public Schools
Right before the holiday break (December 17th) Liberty Leader Jeff Singer presented a transparency proposal to the board of the Chicago Public Schools. The meeting got off to a bit of a late start due to the fact that CPS…
Transparency could help Country Club Hills residents stay in their homes
Homeowners in the village of Country Club Hills are upset that their property taxes are increasing by a whopping 45 percent. The mayor says that new assessments from Cook County are to blame, but the county assessor says that his…
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…
How to file a FOI request
Check out this short yet mildly-entertaining video on how you–yes, you–can file your very own Freedom of Information request. (Hat-tip: liberty is for me.)
Also, download our FOIA letter template, which you can use to request…
Grover Norquist on government transparency
Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist discusses his group’s new project the Center for Fiscal Accountability in this video. “Every dollar spent should be open to be looked at by you and every other taxpayer in…
Rep. Kasha Kelly discusses transparency in government
Rep. Kasha Kelley (R-Kansas) discusses transparency in government at the National Conference of State Legislatures in Boston (August 9, 2007).
