Recently, a Burr Ridge resident, Stephen Woodward (pictured), approached the Institute to help him examine transparency shortcomings in the conduct of his local school boards. Woodward periodically attends Hinsdale School District 86, as well as School District 181, board meetings and advocates for many of the measures outlined by the Illinois Policy Institute’s10-Point Transparency Checklist....
Chicago’s $1.15 billion projected budget gap is the latest in a decades-long string of structural deficits. Making Chicago’s high taxes worse is not the solution.