Chicago city leader with ties to Daley indicted for embezzlement

By Patrick Andriesen

12/13/2021

A Chicago city administrator responsible for accountability faces charges of falsifying bank loans, lying to regulators and taking a $130,000 personal loan he never repaid while on the bank’s board.

TAGS: Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation, Richard Daley, William M. Maho

Madigan celebrates 35th anniversary as Illinois House speaker

By Austin Berg

01/12/2020

Illinoisans will soon cast a vote on the biggest ballot question in the history of Madigan’s record-breaking speakership.

TAGS: credit rating, Daley, debt, fair tax, FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation, federal investigation, graduated income tax, house rules, House Speaker, ILGA: Illinois General Assembly, Illinois, Illinois Constitution, legislative map, lobbying, Mike Madigan, patronage, progressive income tax, property taxes, redistricting, Richard Daley, Springfield, tax burden, U.S. Census Bureau

Chicago to pay $20 million to parking meter company in 2018

By Chris Lentino

11/02/2017

As a continuing part of a bad deal, Chicago taxpayers will pay Chicago Parking Meters LLC $20 million.

TAGS: Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Daley

Chicago TIFs take nearly $500M in yearly tax revenues away from other local governments

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

08/22/2017

Since 2006, Chicago Public Schools has been deprived of $2.5 billion in property tax revenue that has been diverted to Chicago TIF districts.

TAGS: Chicago, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Daley, TIF: Tax Increment Financing

Federal investigation exposes Madigan patronage

By Austin Berg

04/27/2017

With House Speaker Mike Madigan’s longevity comes a patronage army paid with public dollars.

TAGS: corruption, Frank Mautino, Metra, Mike Madigan, patronage, Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich

Chart of the Week: What ObamaCare grant paid state’s Democrat insiders

By Naomi Lopez Bauman

06/18/2014

If you have any doubt that political cronyism isn’t alive and well in Illinois, look no further than an ObamaCare scandal that broke late last week. Investigations by the Associated Press and Crain’s found that a subcontractor to a $33 million ObamaCare grant was billing at $282 per hour. Turns out the subcontractor is owned...

TAGS: cronyism, Lisa Madigan, Mike Madigan, Pat Quinn, Richard Daley

Unlocking Opportunity: How Occupational Licensing Reform Would Promote Equitable Empowerment in Illinois

Illinois finds itself at a crossroads: will it empower minorities and poor people to unleash their potential, or will it perpetuate an inequitable status quo? For far too many Illinoisans, opportunity is unfairly and unnecessarily out of reach. Illinois ranks in the bottom ten among all states in social mobility and last among Midwest states...

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Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students