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Daily Herald—Township leaders’ benefits, “Taxpayers spent more than $1 million last year to cover health care benefits for 77 elected leaders in suburban townships. Those same officials paid nothing for their insurance coverage. An investigation of insurance costs for 50 suburban townships showed 29 offered health care coverage at no charge to elected officers who held full-time positions like supervisor, assessor and highway commissioner.”
- State Journal Register—Hundreds of public records cases stymied in attorney general’s office, “While public-records cases pile up, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan rarely uses her authority to order records disclosed under the state Freedom of Information Act.”
- (AP) Rockford Register Star—Report: Some elected county officials get far better pension deals than other county workers, “Hundreds of elected county officials throughout Illinois – including some who earn more than $100,000 despite working only part time for a portion of their careers – enjoy far more generous pension plan benefits than those offered to other government workers, according to a published report.”
- State Journal Register— Outside attorney’s costly to the state in personnel disputes, “Updated figures from the Illinois Department of Transportation show that outside lawyers hired to defend the agency in personnel disputes, including a series of 2004 layoffs, cost the state nearly $2.4 million.”
