The city of Chicago still hasn’t received any federal funds for the NATO summit
Tag: Freedom of Information Act
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Chicago has yet to receive a dime from the feds for NATO and G8
The city has yet to receive any grant money to prepare for the summits in May
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The most transparent government Chicago has ever seen, part 2
Part two of transparency in the Emanuel administration: The labyrinthine and fruitless act of submitting FOIA requests.
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The most transparent government Chicago has ever seen, part 1
Part one of the gradually disappearing transparency in the Emanuel administration.
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Public schools, private budgets
Charter schools are the fastest-growing part of Chicago’s public education system, but how they spend our tax money is mostly a secret
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Charter schools report card
How Chicago’s charters responded to our FOIA, from “didn’t even bother with a lame excuse” to “gold star!”
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The Shadow Budget: Who Wins in Daley’s TIF Game
The economic development funds are supposed to go to neighborhoods that need it. Guess where they’re really going. For the first time ever: how the city spends TIF funds, ward by ward
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Who Wants to Be an Alderman?
In a showy nod to transparency, Mayor Daley called for applications to fill two midterm vacancies in the City Council. But the real selection process was as opaque as ever.
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The Mayor’s Announcing His Aldermanic Picks, and We Don’t Get to See Who Applied—Yet
The city is forced to reveal the names of everyone who applied for the open aldermanic seats in the First and 29th wards—but not until after Mayor Daley has appointed people to fill them.
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City Forced to Reveal Who’s Applying for Alderman—but not Till After Daley’s Made His Appointments
The city is forced to reveal the names of everyone who applied for the open aldermanic seats in the First and 29th wards—but not until after Mayor Daley has appointed people to fill them.
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Transparency in Action
How a bill intended to expand the state Freedom of Information Act was bastardized to expand the mayor’s shadow budget
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On the FOIA Front
While none of this surprises me, I have to say that the folks in Milwaukee have outdone almost everyone in the fight to keep your nose out of their business. Doc at First Draft has a fascinating account of a hardcore FOIA fight going down between the UW-Milwaukee administration and student newspaper. Good reading if […]
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A Round of Really!?! With Mayor Daley
We have some follow-up questions to the questions other outlets have been asking him about our stories.
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Clout on the Calumet River
Marina owner Mike Olsen has reason to fear the city will force him out of business to the benefit of his competition.
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FAIL, Part Two: One BILLION Dollars!
In April the Reader documented how the Daley administration hid its process for privatizing the city’s parking meters from the public and the City Council. Now, three months into the deal, the city still won’t explain how it determined what the deal was worth—and new evidence suggests the taxpayers were hosed out of billions of dollars.