Illinois Answers Project
The Illinois Answers Project is a nonpartisan news organization focused on investigative journalism and finding solutions in Illinois.
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1 week ago |
illinoisanswers.org | Alex Nitkin
Amid City Council budget negotiations late last year, Ald. David Moore (17th) asked city officials to send him a list of Chicago’s highest-paid employees. He was floored when he saw that his own aide, Cordarryl Jackson, was listed — erroneously — as having the third-highest salary out of the city’s 30,000-plus employees, at $247,000. “Oh my goodness,” Moore said, laughing as he reviewed the list.
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1 month ago |
illinoisanswers.org | Peter Nickeas
The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child deaths and thousands of serious injuries, the Illinois Answers Project has learned. More than 1,200 deaths and more than 3,000 other cases of serious injury have met the criteria for incident-specific reports since July 2018, according to data DCFS provided under an open records request.
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1 month ago |
illinoisanswers.org | Casey Toner
The city of Chicago has reached a tentative, $11.5 million agreement to settle its legal battle against the companies of a north suburban woman that city attorney’s have dubbed Chicago’s “worst landowner,” who has accrued millions of dollars in unpaid fines for hundreds of weed-strewn and garbage-filled lots across the South and West Sides.
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2 months ago |
illinoisanswers.org | David Greising
President Donald Trump has leaped into office relishing his role as disruptor-in-chief, and much of that disruption is aimed at Chicago and Illinois. Chicago is a sanctuary city. Northern Illinois’ deep-blue politics are red meat for the partisan-minded president and his devoted supporters in and out of government. Gov. JB Pritzker is becoming a leading voice of the Trump resistance.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
illinoisanswers.org | Meredith Newman |Grace Hauck
Meredith Newman is an embedded investigative reporter with the Illinois Answers Project. Before joining the newsroom, she worked at The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware and The Capital in Annapolis, Maryland. She is a graduate of Syracuse University and is originally from Evanston, Illinois. More by Meredith Newman
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