The city of Chicago paid out about $670,000 last year to plaintiffs in lawsuits alleging that officials violated open records law — nearly five times what the city paid in the previous eight years combined.
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Oakley's police department, ground zero for the controversy that's erupted in the small town of about 300, sat quiet Thursday night.
But a judge's order for the village to pay nearly $19,000 for attorney costs has one trustee speaking loud and clear.
"It's terrible; we ain't got that – we ain't got that money," Oakley Trustee Norm Wolfe said. Continue>>>
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