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Higher Ed. Hire Raised Ire in Previous College Job

ROUNDUP: Evans Steps Up, Levar Steps Down, Huggins Steps Quietly

Runaway costs aren’t just an Illinois problem.

Last month Bill Beavers was found guilty of using his campaign funds as a personal piggy bank – of plunking down vast amounts of cash at slot machines and not reporting it as income. Until that conviction in federal court, the former South Side alderman and Cook County commissioner wasn’t regarded so much a crook as a character.

Before the Fall, Cellini Firm Feasted on Fees

How Ironic: Ex-Triple-Dipper Seeks Gov’t Jobs Cut

FBI Informant Dishes on McHenry County Sheriff’s Office; Feds Take Pass

ROUNDUP: Give and you shall receive + sleuthing from the inside

In another sign that Maywood’s police department is in need of a dramatic overhaul, a now-former officer has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman he met on duty.

Last year, municipal leaders in Oak Brook hired a law firm to get to the bottom of three things: how the now-former police chief, Tom Sheahan, was hired in 2005 by the village government under a previous regime; how Sheahan quietly ended up with a 2007 pension sweetener that put Oak Brook taxpayers on the hook for an extra $750,000 in liabilities; and how the now-former