Baa1 is Illinois’ bond rating after its most recent downgrade by Moody’s. A more accurate letter grade would be “F” because the continued deterioration of Illinois’ credit worthiness represents the abject failure of Illinois’ political ruling class to abide its fiduciary duties to you, me, and the rest of Illinois…
Illinois By the Numbers: Baa1
Illinois By the Numbers: Baa1
Illinois by the Numbers
Illinois By the Numbers: Baa1
Baa1 is Illinois’ bond rating after its most recent downgrade by Moody’s. A more accurate letter grade would be “F” because the continued deterioration of Illinois’ credit worthiness represents the abject failure of Illinois’ political ruling class to abide its fiduciary duties to you, me, and the rest of Illinois…
Suprise Will County Forest Preserve decides to re-do vote on Levy/ Taxpayers lose
At the October Will County Finance committee the new Finance Director presented a balanced budget that allowed for all spending needs based on a Levy that decreased the rate and dollar amount of the Levy. The Levy and budget were well received and passed by the committee. Click Article explaining details. http://willcountynews.com/2015/10/28/will-county-forest-preserve-reduces-tax-rate-and-levy/
At the November 4th 2015 meeting things changed when president Hart asked for a the Committee to consider 3 options before bringing forward the Levy which passed in October to the full Board of Commissioners November 12th.
- Keep the same Levy as was approved in October.
- Take the New Construction.
- Take the New Construction and CPI.
Discussion began. At one point Former Finance Chair Mahr said we need the extra money for capital projects pointing out people expected we would do something with the land purchased with referendum money. Commissioner Moran said he was in favor of either 2 or 3. Commissioner Moustis said he had no problem taking the new construction since there still would be a reduction in taxes. Commissioner Balich said we passed a balanced budget and Levy last month and explained reasons why we should stick with the October passed Levy. Commissioner Fricilone said that we should go to referendum and ask the people if we are raising taxes to do Capital projects that are more wants than needs. Commissioner Fricilone said leave it up to the people. The vote was called after more discussion moving the 2nd option taking New Construction forward to the meeting of the full Board next week for final approval. The Added money was then added to the budget which will be moved for approval also.
After the meeting Ragan Freitag said There’s a difference between wants and needs when it comes to Capitol projects for the County versus the Forest Preserve at this time. The County needs a Sheriff’s facility, courthouse and health department based on safety and health concerns for our constituents. The Forest Preserve may want to acquire additional land, build new trails and construct new projects but there is not an imminent need for safety and health for our constituents in this regard.
Voting against the tax increase were: Tuminello, Balich, Freitag, Ogalla, Fricilone, and Gould.
Voting for the tax increase were: Moran, Weigel, Moustis, Rice, Hart, Brooks, Winfrey, Mahr, Harris, Babich, and Wilmehi.
Americans react to illegals committing numerous crimes and murder
San Francisco sheriff loses re-election bid after backlash for releasing five-time deportee inmate who then ‘shot an innocent woman dead’
- San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi lost re-election on Tuesday
- He was voted out of office following a scandal involving illegal immigrant Francisco Sanchez
- In March, Mirkarimi allowed Sanchez released from jail without informing federal officials who wanted him detained for possible deportation
- Sanchez was arrested four months later for allegedly shooting dead a woman on the San Francisco waterfront
- Retired sheriff’s official Vicki Hennessy will replace Mirkarimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1QFtFhHE4
A San Francisco sheriff caught up in a national debate on immigration reform has lost his bid for re-election by a wide-margin.
Partial returns from Tuesday’s vote show Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi losing to retired sheriff’s official Vicki Hennessy. She has the backing of Mayor Ed Lee and the deputies association.
With more than 90,000 votes counted, Hennessy had 62 per cent compared to just 31 per cent for Mirkarimi. Only two incumbent San Francisco sheriffs have lost re-election in the last 60 years.
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Out! San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi lost his bid for re-election on Tuesday, amid blowback for releasing a illegal Meixcan immigrant from jail. Pictured above in April
On July 1, illegal immigrant Francisco Sanchez (left) shot dead Kate Steinle, 32 (right), while the woman was walking with her father on the San Francisco waterfront
The San Francisco sheriff’s office has been in the spotlight since a Mexican national in the country illegally was charged in the death of a local woman, 32-year-old Kate Steinle, who was shot dead on the San Francisco waterfront this summer.
Just four months before the shooting, the Francisco Sanchez was released from jail even though federal officials had requested that he be detained.
Sanchez’s detainment was related to marijuana distribution charges that were later dropped. It is believed to have been deported five times previously.
Mirkarimi allowed Sanchez’s release on the basis of the city’s sanctuary policies, which generally prohibit law enforcement from cooperating with immigration officials.
Sanchez told two television stations who interviewed him in jail that he found the gun used in Steinle’s killing wrapped in a shirt on the pedestrian pier she was walking on when she was killed on July 1.
Sanchez said the gun went off in his hands, and his public defender, Matt Gonzalez, said that the San Francisco woman’s death appeared accidental.
However, prosecutors have said Sanchez was sitting in a swivel chair, and chose to shoot in Steinle’s direction.
The Bureau of Land Management later revealed that the weapon belonged to one of their emloyees who left it in their car while in San Francisco on business
Sanchez claimed he found the gun on the waterfront and that it accidentally discharged
San Francisco declared itself a ‘sanctuary city’ in 1989, and since banning that ordinance, city officials passing an ordinance that bans city officials from enforcing immigration laws or asking about immigration status unless required by law or court order. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3303079/Embattled-San-Francisco-sheriff-loses-election-bid.html#v-4342032497001
In addition to the Sanchez scandal, Mirkarimi has been plagued with other bad publicity, including a drug gang leader who escaped from jail and revelations that guards had been staging and gambling on inmate fights.
He was also forced to apologize over the botched search for a missing San Francisco General Hospital patient whose body was found decomposing a stairwell several weeks after she wandered from her room.
The city was forced to pay $3million to settle a lawsuit launched by the victim’s family.
EPA buying Guns, Ammo & Armor / maybe to seize land or protect environment from citizens
Does EPA Need Guns, Ammo And Armor To Protect The Environment?
10/08/2015 05:51 PM ET
The Environmental Protection Agency spent millions of dollars over the last decade on guns, ammo, body armor, camouflage equipment, unmanned aircraft, amphibious assault ships, radar and night-vision gear and other military-style weaponry and surveillance activities, according to a new report by the watchdog group Open the Books.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zBHvEvsc8A
The report raises questions about why EPA’s enforcement division employs well-armed “special agents” who appear to be conducting SWAT-type operations on American businesses and households it suspects of wrongdoing.
Illinois-based Open the Books scanned tens of thousands of checks written by the EPA and totaling more than $93 billion from 2000 to 2014.
The audit discovered hundreds of millions of dollars of questionable expenses, including high-end luxury furnishings, sports equipment and “environmental justice” grants to raise awareness of global warming.
It also revealed that seven of 10 EPA workers make more than $100,000 a year and that more than 12,000 of its nearly 16,000 employees were given bonuses last year despite agency budgets that were supposed to be constrained by budget caps and sequester cuts.
EPA’s $8 billion budget also found room for more than 1,000 attorneys, which would make the agency one of the largest law firms in the nation.
And more than $50 million of EPA funds since 2000 went to international organizations — dollars that flowed to countries such as China and Mexico. These activities appear to have little or no connection to the EPA mandate of safeguarding the air and water here in the U.S.
But the eye-grabber in the report is the agency’s ongoing military-type purchases. Some $75 million is authorized each year for criminal enforcement, including money for a small militia of 200 “special agents” that appear to be snooping on industry and preparing to use deadly force to enforce EPA edicts.
“We were shocked ourselves to find these kind of pervasive expenditures at an agency that is supposed to be involved in clean air and clean water,” said Open the Books’ founder, Adam Andrzejewski. “Some of these weapons are for full-scale military operations.”
Those who keep an eye on the agency have also been stunned by such outlays. “EPA has always been primarily an agency that is involved in analysis and regulation. Even its enforcement arm is mainly involved in litigation,” notes Marlo Lewis, who covers environmental issues for the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
“Since when did we start going down this road of allowing agencies of government to engage in military-style operations?”
With the bloodstained streets of the South Side as a backdrop, the Chiefs attacked lawful gun owners
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 The rabidly anti-gun International Association of Chiefs of Police rolled into Chicago this past weekend to hold its annual convention at McCormick Place. With the bloodstained streets of the South Side as a backdrop, the Chiefs attacked lawful gun owners, vilified the NRA, and called for the end of civilian firearm ownership as we know it. As one would expect, Chicago’s cartoon-character police superintendent Garry McCarthy delivered the welcoming address to those in attendance. While doing so, McCarthy made clear his fervent belief that the state’s lawful firearm owners were at the root of Chicago’s violent crime problem. McCarthy emphatically asserted that regular citizens, such as dentists, lawyers and accountants living in Naperville, must be relieved of their firearms so that drug lords in Chicago will stop shooting one another. One need not have a very cynical eye to recognize that McCarthy’s fixation on civilian disarmament serves as a mere distraction from the real problem – woeful mismanagement of Chicago’s police department.
For many years, the Chicago Police Department’s Detective Bureau published an annual report analyzing numerous factors impacting the city’s homicide rate. Publication of the homicide report was an unusually transparent endeavor for a Chicago governmental agency. Available to the general public, the homicide report chronicled the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Chicago Police Department’s crime fighting efforts. The report also provided facts to support effective rebuttals to assertions made by the gun control movement. Publication of the annual homicide report ceased after the 2011 edition. Coincidently, 2011 was the year that Gerry McCarthy became the Chicago Police Department’s Superintendent.
Tidbits taken from the 2011 Chicago Murder Analysis paint a picture that does little to support disarming law-abiding Illinois citizens:
Based on Chicago’s 2011 murder statistics, there’s a good chance that you’ll either commit a murder or become a victim of a murder if you are a young adult male night-owl gang member with a previous criminal record who hangs out on the streets of certain police precincts. Otherwise, you’ll probably live a long and uneventful life. But, if you do get killed in Chicago, there’s a 70% chance that the person who killed you will never face justice.
Of course, these statistics are from 2011 and, since these statistics are no longer published, we have absolutely no idea if the McCarthy regime has at all quelled the criminal blood lust on Chicago’s south and west sides. Yet, we suspect things haven’t gotten any better since McCarthy took office.
One thing that hasn’t changed since 2011 is the abject hatred Chicago officials hold for lawful gun owners. The post-Daley years have seen no let-up in the city’s concerted effort to eliminate private firearm ownership. Their very own facts notwithstanding, Chicago city officials lay the blame for criminal and gangland violence on law-abiding citizens who wish to do nothing more than exercise their constitutional rights free of interference from sawed-off dictators like Rahm Emanuel.
Joining McCarthy in last week’s orgy of gun hatred was Barack Obama. In his address to the Chiefs, Obama cynically tried to allay the fears of gun owners by saying that he was not going to take anyone’s guns away. However, in his next breath, Obama pushed the Chiefs to support legislation that would ban better than 80% of the firearms now in civilian hands.
When on friendly turf such as the Chiefs’ convention, gun grabbers like McCarthy and Obama lose their inhibitions and speak freely of their plans to punish citizens who dare to own firearms. After listening to the addresses made at the Chiefs, it should be clear to all gun owners that Obama and his ilk have no respect for our Constitution and the liberties it is designed to protect.
As a gun owner, the only way to survive is for you want to keep your guns more than the gun-grabbers want to take them away. That means that all gun owners will have to put more effort into protecting the 2nd Amendment – at all levels – than the gun-haters put into destroying our heritage. Only you can protect your gun rights. So, get involved, get vocal, get in the faces of the gun controllers. Force them to back down – force them to abandon their morally-bankrupt campaign for domestic disarmament.
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Against the Current: Dan Proft & Stephen Moore
Against the Current: Dan Proft & Stephen Moore
Dan Proft sits down with The Sultan of Supply-Side Economics, Heritage Foundation Distinguished Fellow Stephen Moore. Can the GOP extricate itself from rent-seeking corporate interests? What should a GOP POTUS with a GOP-controlled Congress accomplish by 2020? What are the policy choices that make rich states rich and poor states poor? Proft and Moore discuss these and other questions. You can catch Moore with Proft every Wednesday morning at 7:35am on Chicago’s Morning Answer, AM 560 (560TheAnswer.com).
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jwblgCsTn4
Gov. Rauner, ignore the Surrender Illinois Caucus
Many of Rauner’s exasperated critics created his mission — but also his leverage.
Insurrections disrespect the established order and agitate its protectors. So it’s logical that, as the war for the future of Illinois gets tough, some formerly friendly voices would go wobbly on Gov. Bruce Rauner and his revolutionary vision of a solvent, prosperous, jobs-friendly state:
First, former Gov. Jim Edgar told The State Journal-Register of Springfield that Rauner shouldn’t “hold the budget hostage” by pushing for term limits and policy reforms that could stop other states from stealing Illinois jobs. Former Gov. Jim Thompson then fretted to the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, “This is the worst position the state of Illinois has ever been in.” Crain’s Chicago Business editorialized, “Rauner, even your allies are losing patience” — although the only “ally” cited was the backsliding Edgar.
To which a more resolute Rauner ally, Illinois Chamber of Commerce CEO Todd Maisch, retorted: “The chamber recognizes that the current budget stalemate is causing real pain across our state. … Four months is a long time to go without a budget. But it pales in comparison to a 12-year wait for state government to return to fiscal sanity, basic competency and a partnership with business that allows both to prosper. Those things are more than important. They are vital. They are also hard and worth the wait. Hang in there, Governor.”
Feel free to marvel at the Rauner critics who had a hand in creating Illinois’ financial debacle. We’ve noted that Edgar and House Speaker Michael Madigan created the so-called “Edgar ramp,” a failed pension rescue plan. Thompson had approved an earlier ineffective pension funding scheme — even as he aggravated the problem by sweetening retirees’ benefits. As this page noted in 1991, “Thompson, meanwhile, got a deal that doubled his own pension.”
First, former Gov. Jim Edgar told The State Journal-Register of Springfield that Rauner shouldn’t “hold the budget hostage” by pushing for term limits and policy reforms that could stop other states from stealing Illinois jobs. Former Gov. Jim Thompson then fretted to the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, “This is the worst position the state of Illinois has ever been in.” Crain’s Chicago Business editorialized, “Rauner, even your allies are losing patience” — although the only “ally” cited was the backsliding Edgar.
To which a more resolute Rauner ally, Illinois Chamber of Commerce CEO Todd Maisch, retorted: “The chamber recognizes that the current budget stalemate is causing real pain across our state. … Four months is a long time to go without a budget. But it pales in comparison to a 12-year wait for state government to return to fiscal sanity, basic competency and a partnership with business that allows both to prosper. Those things are more than important. They are vital. They are also hard and worth the wait. Hang in there, Governor.”
Feel free to marvel at the Rauner critics who had a hand in creating Illinois’ financial debacle. We’ve noted that Edgar and House Speaker Michael Madigan created the so-called “Edgar ramp,” a failed pension rescue plan. Thompson had approved an earlier ineffective pension funding scheme — even as he aggravated the problem by sweetening retirees’ benefits. As this page noted in 1991, “Thompson, meanwhile, got a deal that doubled his own pension.”
Just as peculiar: critiques of Rauner from the Democratic leaders who for decades pushed the pension and other legislation that devastated Illinois finances and drove employers to fiscally stable, less taxing states. In some cultures, leaders accept responsibility for their failures and humbly go away. In Illinois, the leaders cling to power and blame newcomers for the havoc they wrought.
The fruit of their long dereliction? One poisonous toxin and two useful tonics:
•Rauner inherited their noxious brew of intentionally unbalanced budgets, lousy credit ratings, unfunded pension obligations and truly enormous taxpayer debts.
•Yet all that Springfield bungling, and Rauner’s pledge to shake up the town, also put him in the governor’s office. His reward for keeping his word: a relentless, often personal assault against him from some formerly protected interests that see Rauner as the incarnate threat to their primacy and power. As other states modernize labor laws and scramble to attract new jobs, so perhaps will Illinois.
•The mismanagement of Illinois has been so egregious that, paradoxically, it gives Rauner leverage. For decades Springfield politicians enacted and enabled the pension and other costly laws that ruined Chicago’s finances. The city is so desperate for cash that, even as Mayor Rahm Emanuel imposes $755 million in new taxes and fees, he’s asking Springfield for more than $800 million to balance his City Hall, schools and transit budgets. Much of that would come from the nonexistent budget of a broke state with billions of dollars in past-due bills.
Though they can never admit it, this surely frustrates Madigan & Co.: Springfield, by letting Chicago deteriorate, has driven Chicago to rely on Springfield. To rely, that is, on … Rauner’s signature.
But the Surrender Illinois Caucus, yearning for the stability it undermined, wants Rauner to cave to the Democrats on budgets and leave reforms for a day that, until now, has never, ever, arrived.
Governor, ignore the Caucus. You’d betray voters who elected you if you didn’t secure economic and other reforms to help rescue Illinois. Here’s why: This state cannot tax or cut its way to prosperity. Illinois instead must grow more jobs, more taxpayers and thus more revenues.
That means making Illinois less hostile to employers. The faster Madigan, Senate President John Cullerton and Emanuel acknowledge how Springfield raised the cost of Chicago government (and of burdened taxpayers doing business here), the faster all of you can settle on spending and revenue for Springfield and Chicago.
Some in the Surrender Illinois Caucus huff that because your agenda would diminish labor’s clout, you want them to violate their “core principles.” As if what they hold dear is sacramental, untouchable and so cannot possibly change.
Remind your critics that they don’t have a monopoly on “core principles.” Remind them, too, of Madigan’s words on Feb. 8, 2011, when he warned House members that the state’s predicament would force unpopular votes: “Again, tough decision-making, telling people, ‘You’re not going to get everything you thought you were going to get,’ telling people, ‘You may have to pay in more.’ Not easy stuff. So we all better get ready for it.”
And remind them, Governor, of the core principles on which all of us should agree:
Everyone in this discussion is less important than the overspent, overpromised and imperiled future of Illinois.
Everyone in this discussion should want Illinois restored to government solvency and economic prosperity.
And everyone — Republicans and Democrats in the Surrender Caucus included — ought to put Illinois’ future ahead of his or her interests and pride.
Daily Dose of Chicago Corruption
Daily Dose of Chicago Corruption
8/25/15 – Illinois Comptroller announces state will not pay social service agencies in direct violation of a court order due to lack of funds. – Chicago Sun Times.
8/25/15 – The University of Illinois Provost is resigning, the second official to resign, after secret email accounts were exposed by whistle-blowers at the school. The secret email accounts were meant to avoid taxpayer scrutiny. – Associated Press.
8/25/15 – Criminal charges against a Chicago Police officer accused of threatening a Chicago Police Commander were dropped when the only witness died. – Chicago Sun Times.
8/28/15 – The fugitive wanted for crimes while serving as Chicago Comptroller is being returned by Pakistan to face charges. – Chicago Sun Times.
8/30/15 – The oil company leasing land from the Chicago Water Reclamation District failed to report a spill of 340,000 pounds of anti-freeze, its fourth leak since 2006. – Better Government Association.
8/31/15 – The new CEO of Chicago Public Schools ordered a budget cut of 20%, including laying off nine staffers from the previous CEO. He immediately replaced them with politically connected former colleagues at a cost of $900,000 per year. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/6/15 – Teamsters announce they and their members will contract legal services exclusively from the new law firm just opened by the son of the union’s leader and top Mayoral ally. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/8/15 – Chicago Inspector General says the Mayor overstated garbage collection savings by $42 million and that the city is assigning more garbage men than are needed to do the job. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/10/15 – The Illinois Lottery announces it has stopped paying winners of amounts over $25,000 due to lack of funds. – Chicago Tribune.
9/10/15 – Illinois Comptroller projects that by years-end, the state will have $8.5 billion in bills it can’t pay. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/10/15 – Chicago Transit Authority agrees to pay $4.3 million to the family of a woman killed by a CTA bus. The CTA had insisted the woman was killed by a separate car, even though the bus’ own video showed there was no other car. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/13/15 – Cook County agrees to pay $50,000 to the mother of a murder victim killed by the nephew of the former Chicago Mayor, and covered-up by the Cook County States Attorney’s office. – Chicago Tribune.
9/13/15 – The niece of a Chicago Congressman is exposed for working for the Congressman’s Church, but being paid by the company of a political contributor of the Congressman. – Better Government Association.
9/13/15 – The number of retired government employees collecting pension payments over $100,000 per year reached 14,320. – Better Government Association.
9/14/15 – Illinois government employee pension funds are attempting to reclaim $2.2 million in payments accidentally paid to deceased pensioners. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/15/15 – A Cook County Prosecutor from the State’s Attorney’s office was fired for giving false testimony in an attempt to convict a man of murdering a Chicago Police officer. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/16/15 – Chicago Public Schools admits it spent $2.9 million on fast food and restaurants in one year, but more than a third of the money can’t be accounted for. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/16/15 – Chicago Alderman suggests Chicago use its own internet infrastructure for internet service and stop paying private companies $53.3 million annually for a service the city can provide itself for free. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/17/15 – Cook County Jail guards sue taxpayers for $1 million because the Sheriff closed a portion of the prison and moved 150 guards to stations only 600 feet away. The guards claim it’s a violation of their union rules. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/17/15 – The Independent Police Review Authority recommended the firing of a Chicago Police Officer who killed an unarmed man but was acquitted of criminal charges. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/17/15 – The son of a former Chicago Police Superintendent was named the new chief judge of the Cook County Criminal Court. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/18/15 – Chicago-based US Air Marshals shown having sex with prostitutes during a fraudulent disability hearing. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/20/15 – Chicago Police Department finally fires officer who was the subject of 29 disciplinary hearings and been arrested four times. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/20/15 – Cook County State’s Attorney says she won’t re-open any of the six murder cases it prosecuted after Chicago City Hall requested so after a Chicago Police Detective was found falsifying evidence to obtain convictions. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/20/15 – Taxpayers in suburban South Holland paid $1.32 million for a piece of land valued at $1.1 million from the political associate of the city’s Mayor. The land was to be used for a train line that has yet to be built. – Daily Southtown.
9/22/15 – US President’s campaign manager’s law firm given $100,000 to conduct an outreach program to racially diversify the Chicago Police Department. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/25/15 – Court rules Chicago can’t nullify a fraudulent land lease to a political colleague of the former Chicago Mayor that provides millions of dollars in free city services and a lease payment far less than fair market value. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/25/15 – A former Chicago Police Lieutenant is suing the department claiming fellow officers labeled him an informant and a sex offender on social media after he stopped the sons of a fellow officer on the street for possible wrongdoing. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/27/15 – Documents released by the Chicago Police Department show the city has been secretly spying for decades on political activists, union leaders and even critics of the Chinese government. – Chicago Sun Times.
9/29/15 – A top political donor to the new Chicago Public Schools CEO will be awarded the agency’s lead attorney job even though he has no public sector experience. – Chicago Sun Times.
10/2/15 – Chicago Public Schools admits its graduation rate, originally released by the Mayor’s re-election campaign, was overstated and is actually 66.3 percent. – Better Government Association.
10/3/15 – Suburban Midlothian police officer receives a 15-month prison term for beating an innocent man even though the prosecution asked for a 6.5-year sentence. – Chicago Sun Times.
10/3/15 – Two Illinois Prisoner Review Board members were removed from the Board after two investigations were launched, including a false bankruptcy filing. – Chicago Sun Times.
10/4/15 – A Cook County Circuit Court judge is currently facing seven separate IRS liens to capture unpaid back taxes. – Chicago Sun Times.
10/4/15 – The state official for the newly elected Governor handling employment requests is using a secret, private email account instead of a government account. – Better Government Association.
10/4/15 – Of the 783 grants made by state taxpayers to companies for job creation, only 1 of 3 kept or added employees. – Chicago Tribune.
10/5/15 – The Chicago Metropolitan Water Reclamation police officer caught on tape bragging about drinking and sleeping on the job will receive an estimated $27,000 in extra pay this year for overtime. – Chicago Sun Times.
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