Last year, country music star Garth Brooks began his latest tour at Allstate Arena in Rosemont, but after months of resistance the village has only now released certain financial details of Brooks's 11-show stand.
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Open Meetings suit filed against Clark County Park District
A Verified Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief naming the Clark County Park District as Defendant was filed in Clark County Circuit Court on 02/18/2015.
This stems from the February 17, 2015 meeting where the Board approved “Lease Rates” and “Amended Covenants” but kept the contents of those documents secret from the public.
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A new act in Springfield Illinois
It’s show time again in Springfield, and the supporting cast is the same as last year — more than a hundred Democrats who maintain veto-proof majorities in the House and Senate.
But there’s a new star, Republican Governor Bruce Rauner, who enters stage left with a fresh script that promises to replace “business as usual” with fiscal and ethical reform.
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College of DuPage fighting FOIA suit
In September and October of 2014, and December of 2013, several Freedom of Information Act requests were denied by the College of DuPage FOIA Officer. After several failed attempts at asking them to provide the public records they were bound by law to provide, we decided it was time to file suit in DuPage County Circuit Court.
These requests consisted of public records concerning “Broadcast Technologies” and the W-2 Form for COD President Breuder.
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FOIA change targets nuisance requests in Illinois
Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Hal Harper has spent every workday for the last two months dealing with Freedom of Information Act requests from a convicted murderer.
Harper, who started two months ago as one of the department’s Freedom Of Information Act officers, said that Daniel Cleary recently sent a request for 2,500 pages of documents and a DVD of his police interrogations.
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Employee Resumes and Applications Subject to Release under FOIA
College of DuPage FOIA requests question spending
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn stopped a $20 million state construction grant to the College of DuPage last June when a troubling email surfaced from President Robert Breuder to the Board of Trustees. The email outlined a political strategy helpful to the incumbent governor in an effort to procure the millions of dollars. Furthermore, Breuder suggested “bank it until we figure out how to use it, and then building something.” It was the first in a long line of irregularities uncovered during our seven-month investigation of the $300 million-per-year community college.
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Editorial: Illinois Sen. Pam Althoff vote weakens FOIA
The Northwest Herald Editorial Board offers this week’s thumbs up and thumbs down this week:
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Editorial: Lawmakers want to dismantle Freedom of Information Act
Your lame-duck Legislature is fiddling with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act again. No good can come of that.
Before they leave town this week, lawmakers with nothing to lose could be asked to vote on two bills, both of them designed to water down an already weak public records law.
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Seventh FOIA Suit Filed Against Arcola Township
Once again, failure to follow the Freedom of Information Act, failure to provide responsive public records to the person requesting the records.
This is the 7th FOIA civil suit against Arcola Township.
You can read it below, but the main problem is that Arcola Township thinks they can do as they please, the law be damned. Continue>>>
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