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Upstart Infrastructure Trust Seeks Financial Backing
The Chicago Infrastructure Trust—a new, city-created non-profit that seeks to make possible private financing of public infrastructure projects—released its first Request for Qualifications (RFQ’s) for financers.
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Upstart Infrastructure Trust Seeks Financial Backing
The Chicago Infrastructure Trust—a new, city-created non-profit that seeks to make possible private financing of public infrastructure projects—released its first Request for Qualifications (RFQ’s) for financers.
Posted inFollow-Up, Investigation
A Curious Civics Lesson
In Bellwood, a superintendent is hired after campaigning for school board members. And she’s not the only school administrator in the region engaged in politics.
Posted inAnalysis, Perspective, Policy
New Reporting Requirements Will Ferret Out Conflicts of Interest
Having information about potential conflicts of interest held by public officials is vital to ensuring our government is accountable to taxpayers—not to private or personal interests.
Posted inAnalysis, Policy
New Reporting Requirements Will Ferret Out Conflicts of Interest
Having information about potential conflicts of interest held by public officials is vital to ensuring our government is accountable to taxpayers—not to private or personal interests.
Posted inAnalysis, Perspective, Policy
Too Many Boards for us to Support
Illinois is home to more than 300 separate taxpayer supported boards and commissions, many of them costly and of dubious value. It’s a poster child for government excess — watchers watching watchers — that should have been streamlined years ago.
Posted inAnalysis, Perspective, Policy
Too Many Boards for us to Support
Illinois is home to more than 300 separate taxpayer supported boards and commissions, many of them costly and of dubious value. It’s a poster child for government excess — watchers watching watchers — that should have been streamlined years ago.
Posted inAnalysis, Perspective, Policy
Conflict of Interest in Mayor’s Office
Mayor Emanuel is undermining his own reform claims by defending the awarding of a $99.4 million cleaning contract at O’Hare Airport to a local executive with a history of alleged mob ties. Turns out the mob angle is only one troubling aspect of the deal.
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Conflict of Interest in Mayor’s Office
Mayor Emanuel is undermining his own reform claims by defending the awarding of a $99.4 million cleaning contract at O’Hare Airport to a local executive with a history of alleged mob ties. Turns out the mob angle is only one troubling aspect of the deal.