Excess red tape hurts business. Where superfluous laws and regulations prevail, businesses and individuals lose out. Kansas knows this, and has developed a plan to jump-start business activity in the Sunflower State: the Office of the Repealer. Last month Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback made good on a campaign promise by establishing the office (Appendix I, available...
Taxpayers deserve to know information about the governments they fund. Illinois has thousands of units of local government, but key information about most of them is not readily available to average citizens.
Evanston Resident Dan Kamerling has teamed up with the Illinois Policy Institute to conduct a Local Transparency Project in the Evanston Township Area.
Illinois Policy Institute's Brian Costin is quoted in a story on local transparency.
The "most transparent administration in history" institutes nondisclosure agreements
The BGA's volunteer Citizen Watchdog Training is a free program that empowers citizens to keep an eye on their government and report about what's going on in their local communities.
A listing of each local, county and state Freedom of Information Act & Open Meetings Act officer in the State of Illinois.
The Downers Grove Park District and villages of Downers Grove and Willowbrook scored the highest of 16 public agencies recently evaluated in a government transparency audit. The audit was part of the Illinois Policy Institutes Local Transparency Project.
With recent improvements to the Village of Glencoe's website achieved a 92.5 out of 100 possible points on our transparency test, the highest score weve ever recorded in llinois.
Daniel Anthony featured on Chicago Tonight discussing the blizzard of 2011.
Institute CEO, John Tillman, on FOX Chicago discussing the city's response to the blizzard and the cost to the tax payers.
After hearing of the Local Transparency Project and the 10-Point Transparency Checklist, Sen. Dan Duffy contacted the Illinois Policy Institute to address the issue with legislation at state level.
The Institute has filed a FOIA request seeking any e-mail sent or received by Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle's concerning the trouble-plagued Adult Probation Department.
The City of Chicago kept 17 employees on the payroll after their convictions in public corruption cases, at a cost of $681,195 to the taxpayers.