Recently, Kane County became the first county to receive a perfect transparency score from the Institute. This was part of our ongoing Local Transparency Project, an initiative to audit local government websites and rate them on several factors, such as the availability of public meeting schedules, government employee salaries, tax rates and other vital community information.

Here is a digest of some media coverage of our transparency initiative.

Kane County website recognized for transparency

Kane recieves perfect score on independent transparency audit

IL Policy Institute: 20 out of 26 northern Illinois county governments fail transparency audit

Kane honored for making info easy to find