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Home » Better Government Association

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Civilized debate at a neutral site like the statehouse? Nope. MAGA would rather take this outside. These are not the folks we want drawing our legislative maps.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The MAGA party

by Ben Joravsky March 24, 2021August 18, 2021

Please, Governor Pritzker, keep legislative mapmaking away from the Trump cultists in the GOP.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Alderman Ed Burke out as head of finance committee

by Ben Joravsky January 14, 2019August 18, 2021

Rahm has already chosen his replacement.

Posted inNews & Politics

Hundreds of Illinois prisoners languish behind bars waiting for Dorothy Brown to do her job

by Maya Dukmasova May 24, 2018August 18, 2021

The court clerk lost the records of James Allen, who’s fighting to overturn convictions that put him in prison 30 years ago. His case is not unique.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago officials take a page from Trump playbook to justify Navy Pier TIF ‘shell game’

by Ben Joravsky July 27, 2017August 18, 2021

The Emanuel administration’s explanation for how $55 million wound up paying for Navy Pier renovations sounds like gobbledygook from the presidential administration.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Chicago’s TIF scam might be even more crooked than we thought

by Ben Joravsky July 25, 2017August 18, 2021

The city’s TIFs will generate a record $561 million this tax year. Which means more money for the mayor to sneakily divert into vanity projects like Navy Pier.

Posted inBlogs

Records dump reveals Rahm’s millionaires-only e-mail club

by Ben Joravsky December 23, 2016August 18, 2021

Wealthy and powerful men had direct access to the mayor, while activists and ordinary citizens were kept at bay.

Posted inBlogs

Rahm Emanuel releases several years’ worth of e-mails, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd December 23, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, outgoing Republican senator Mark Kirk laments the lost of the moderate establishment in the age of Trump.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Many millions of dollars later, what’s up with Navy Pier?

by Deanna Isaacs September 28, 2016August 18, 2021

And what’s in store for the future?

Posted inBlogs

After BGA leaders depart, survivors vote to unionize

by Michael Miner August 22, 2016August 18, 2021

Employees of the Better Government Association vote 11 to 0 to join the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Posted inBlogs

In freedom of information triumph, Chicago police misconduct complaint records now online

by Steve Bogira November 10, 2015August 18, 2021

But the victory is limited by an injunction that insulates the vast majority of police shooting investigations from public scrutiny.

Posted inNews & Politics

The one-man battle to find out where Ventra came from

by Mick Dumke August 12, 2015August 18, 2021

After suing the CTA, Jason Prechtel got the inside scoop on how Chicago ended up with Ventra.

Friends of the Parks president Cassandra Francis announces its lawsuit at a press conference November 13.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The Lucas Museum: On soggy ground?

by Deanna Isaacs November 18, 2014August 18, 2021

Friends of the Parks’ lawsuit over the proposed site of the Lucas Museum goes beyond a dispute over the lakefront and into federal court.

Posted inBlogs

Friends of the Parks files suit to stop the Lucas Museum

by Deanna Isaacs November 13, 2014August 18, 2021

Friends of the Parks is going to federal court today to prevent the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art from building on Park District property.

Posted inBlogs

Firm tied to Bruce Rauner profits from ‘court-sanctioned extortion’

by Mick Dumke September 25, 2014August 18, 2021

While Illinois prisons are dangerously overcrowded, the GOP candidate for governor has made money from privatized criminal justice systems.

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm and Joe Ferguson make love, not war

by Ben Joravsky September 4, 2013August 19, 2021

Hey, Joe Ferguson: If Mayor Rahm’s making you leave in a year—go out strong.

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