Will Illinois’s candidates for governor ever practice what they preach?
Tag: government transparency
Posted inFilm
Up close—maybe too close—with Julian Assange
Laura Poitras, who recorded the Edward Snowden leak in Citizenfour, returns with her latest documentary, Risk.
Posted inBlogs
Rahm Emanuel releases several years’ worth of e-mails, and other Chicago news
Also, outgoing Republican senator Mark Kirk laments the lost of the moderate establishment in the age of Trump.
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The politics behind Chicago’s garbage bins
The City Council passed a new fee on Dumpsters—without knowing who’s going to pay, who’s going to profit, and whose idea it was.
Posted inNews & Politics
The mayor’s millionaire club, part II
Rahm Emanuel’s calendar shows how wealth and access, more than party identity, have come to command his attention
Posted inNews & Politics
The trust fund mayor
The mayor has big plans for Chicago’s infrastructure. Wish we knew what they were.
Posted inBlogs
Aldermen: mad as hell and not going to take it anymore (without bitching a little first)
More and more aldermen say they’re frustrated with the way the Daley administration does business. Some even think somebody should do something about it. Meanwhile, the Dumpster tax has passed.
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Dumpster tax dumped again
The failed Dumpster tax: how poor planning may have added to the city’s growing budget deficit.
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Money for the taking
The city explains–in a manner of speaking–why it has so little evidence that it monitored its $10 million TIF deal with Republic Windows and Doors.
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TIFs: Hidden in plain view
The City Council can approve a 99-year privatization deal in days, but it needs months to decide whether to put public records online.
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The City Council, for no apparent reason, puts TIF transparency on hold
A proposal to make tax increment financing deals more transparent receives broad support and no opposition in a City Council hearing–then gets tabled anyway.