The municipal pension casualty list continues to grow.

In early July, The News-Gazette posed the following question:

“It’s Harvey and Peoria today. Who will it be tomorrow?”

Here’s the answer — Galesburg. Others will follow.

Taxpayer-funded severance agreements stemming from sexual harassment or sexual discrimination complaints must be published online and given to news media before approval, under a measure signed into law by Gov. Bruce Rauner.

The legislation was created in response to the Des Plaines Elementary District 62 board’s agreeing in November to pay then-Superintendent Floyd Williams Jr. a $127,000 severance after he was accused of sexually harassing employees. Williams has denied those claims.

A taxpayer-funded mural in Lakeview was taken down by mistake by the city last week, apparently after someone complained it was graffiti and should be removed, according to city officials.

Chicago-based artist JC Rivera’s signature bright yellow “bear champ” went up earlier this month at the CTA Paulina Brown Line stop. But the mural, commissioned by the Lakeview Chamber of Commerce and paid for out of a special taxpayer fund, wasn’t long for this world: In fact, it was on display for a shorter time than it took Rivera to paint the piece.

With less than a week to go before the official start of Chicago Public Schools’ academic year, the full results of an enormous effort to check the backgrounds of tens of thousands of employees, contractors and volunteers are still unclear.

The first phase of the huge task is complete, and more than 44,000 district employees now have their fingerprints on file for review, CPS and its fingerprint-scanning contractor said late last week. Ten district officials are responsible for investigating employees with potential criminal backgrounds before authorizing them to work.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson is giving her principals this charge: focus on doing better with the school district’s black students.

Her demand comes as new elementary school test score data, out Wednesday, shows black students still lagging far behind other groups.

With only about a month remaining to address the $5.1 million projected deficit for 2019, Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen fired a double-barreled attack at the sheriff’s and court services departments Wednesday.

The departments have a multiyear track record of rising expenses and falling revenues, fueling questions about what local residents really get for their tax dollars, Lauzen said.

Hanover Township will ask its voters for a property tax hike Nov. 6 that would provide $1 million a year for three specific enhancements to its youth services.

Township Supervisor Brian McGuire said the funding would allow officials to triple their drug and opioid education efforts, double their resources to provide family therapy, and operate a teen center.