Salary Information

By The Northwest Herald Editorial Board

The state of Illinois is playing hide and seek with the salary information of its public employees, and we don’t like it.

State taxpayers shouldn’t, either.

Rep. Mike Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, crafted legislation in 2009 that created the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (accountability.illinois.gov), a database of state government spending.

Visitors to the web site can view volumes of spending data going back to 2008.