Government

  • Chicago Backs Up 911

    Fran Spielman has the story: City quietly builds backup 911 site at O’Hare Airport :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: City Hall Amid cloak-and-dagger secrecy, the Daley administration is building a backup 911 center at O’Hare Airport to handle emergency calls if a terrorist attack or natural disaster damages Chicago’s primary facility in the West Loop, City…

  • Chicago Department of Transportation Door Hanger for Reluctant Shovelers

    From CDOT.Download and print the PDF here.See also a friendly poster PDF.

  • What are the City of Chicago Stimulus Bill Projects?

    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, otherwise known as the Stimulus Bill, has the  City of Chicago They get their data from this report from the US Conference of Mayors. There’s also no projects in New York City, which doesn’t make a lick of sense, although Los Angeles has a slew.

  • President Obama’s Open Government Imperatives Must Trickle Down to Cities

    Today President Obama issued two eloquent orders with the following subject lines: “Freedom of Information Act” and “Transparency and Open Government”. Published on the first full day of his presidency, they constitute a sweeping manifesto about how he wants to govern at the Federal level. Those leading municipal government in this country — mayors, commissioners,…

  • Ethics 404

    Does anyone else find it fitting that the page on the City of Chicago Web site for the 30th Annual Government Ethics Law Conference currently returns an error page? Here's the cached page.