BGA Watchdog Training teaches you how to keep an eye on government and find out what’s happening in your community. In this training, experts will help you understand government, the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
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Watchdog Training: City Bureau
About eighty Chicago residents from the South Side learned they can file Freedom of Information Act requests anonymously during a watchdog training session hosted jointly by the Better Government Association and City Bureau.
Public Forums: Attorney General Race
The BGA, in collaboration with ABC7, hosted back-to-back Republican and Democratic debates with primary candidates for Illinois Attorney General.
2019 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative Reporting
At the 2019 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Awards for Investigative Reporting, the BGA will honor the best reporting in our state and host a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, known for his exposé of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam as well as exposing atrocities at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
BGA-SJR Whiteboard: Gender Equity, Tech & Transportation
Illinois turns 200 years old this December, and to honor the occasion, the Better Government Association and The State Journal-Register are asking experts on three crucial topics — Transportation, Technology and Gender Equity — to help us whiteboard the future: What needs to be done to make Illinois a leader?
Watchdog Training: Arlington Heights
BGA Watchdog Training teaches you how to keep an eye on government and find out what’s happening in your community. In this training, experts will help you understand government, the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
