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Chicago faces $200 million claim over privatized parking garage

April 16, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times
BY DAN MIHALOPOULOS & CHRIS FUSCO 
Updated: April 16, 2012 6:06AM 

Under the $563 million, 99-year deal that privatized fo

Rahm ethics push

April 2, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times

by MITCH DUDEK
Staff Reporter

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is urging the city’s sister agencies to adapt a zero tolerance policy when it comes to employees receiving gifts from outside vendors.

Emanuel sent letters to heads of the Chicago Transit Authority, Chicago Housing Authority, Chicago Public Schools, City Colleges of Chicago and the Chicago Park District asking each to enact the policy.

Former zoning inspector sentenced for taking bribes

March 29, 2012
Chicago Tribune

Staff report

A former zoning inspector for the city of Chicago has been sentenced to a year and a day for accepting bribes.

Dominick Owens was found guilty last November of accepting two separate bribes of $600 to sign off on certificates of occupancy at four residential properties. Owens, 45, had faced a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count.

Employee gift ban recommendation still has few takers

March 25, 2012
Chicago Tribune

Despite new CPS scandal, governments reluctant to establish
zero-tolerance policy

By Joel Hood, Chicago Tribune reporter

Concerned over a rash of ethics violations by city employees in 2010,
Inspector General Joseph Ferguson urged Mayor Richard M. Daley to
implement a citywide ban on gifts from businesses who contract with
the government.

The city's Board of Ethics quickly rejected the idea, saying that
while a zero-tolerance gift ban might make sense for some departments,

Chicago school officials got $86,000 in gifts, report says

March 16, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Joel Hood 

The chief of food services at Chicago Public Schools and two members of her staff have received tens of thousands of dollars in improper gifts from the d

Challenger knocks attorney donations to incumbent on property tax appeals board

March 16, 2012
Chicago Tribune
BY LISA DONOVAN
 
A lawsuit involving female martial arts fighters, charges of electioneering and campaign finance shenanigans &mdas

Let the little children cover for me, and do not hinder them

March 14, 2012
Chicago Tribune

Cash, not oft-invoked kids, tops Chicago Way agenda in speed camera deal

John Kass

A completely hypothetical politician was being heckled by angry taxpayers. And they dared ask rude questions, like why he wasted all their tax dollars on fat contracts to his pals.

So he decided to flee. Unfortunately, he was surrounded. Then he saw a first-grader in the crowd. He grabbed the child and used her as a shield, holding her before him to ward off angry voters, shrieking, "We must save this child! Help me save this child!" as he sprinted to his car.

CPS worker ethics probed District food vendor allegedly gave gifts worth thousands of dollars to high-ranking employee

March 12, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Joel Hood
 
The inspector general for Chicago Public Schools is investigating allegations that the district's largest food vendor

Emanuel to push for trust on projects: Plea for public works authority short on details

March 9, 2012
Chicago Tribune
By Kristen Mack and Hal Dardick

Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to ask aldermen next week to consider giving him broad authority to try a new way to pay for big-ticket projec