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Legislator voted on grant programs that benefit his wife and the nonprofit where she works.

For nearly a year after the Better Government Association exposed widespread issues with clout hiring at the Illinois Department of Transportation, agency secretary Ann Schneider stayed quiet. She refused to grant an interview to the BGA on the topic.

Public pension systems in the Chicago area have little or no oversight when it comes to trustees and staff members accepting gifts and other freebies from vendors or prospective vendors.

The City of Chicago has spent more than half a billion dollars for police misconduct-related claims over the past decade or so – and only a fraction of those payouts involve tortuous ex-police Cmdr. Jon Burge.

Police misconduct allegations span suburban departments, too, and are costing taxpayers in those towns a pretty penny.

How’s this for irony?The task force Gov. Pat Quinn formed last summer to look into, among other things, ethics and clout hiring at Metra just held its final meeting this week.

Recently-passed law means police must react differently when they stop people with firearms, a Rescuing Illinois investigation discovers.

Cook County’s inspector general – county government’s in-house watchdog – released a report on Valentine’s Day on the Forest Preserve District, but it wasn’t a love note.

Some solid reporting recently by the Chicago Tribune on the City of Harvey, its troublesome mayor Eric Kellogg and his disastrous police force.

In a bizarre twist, Dixon’s record-breaking embezzlement ends up putting the city in solid financial shape, a Rescuing Illinois report reveals.