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3 unusual facts about Better Government Association


Better Government Association

The Chicago Public School system will save tens of millions of dollars a year under a new sick-day policy that will end excessive sick-day payouts.

Pam Zekman, a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, and BGA’s director of investigations Bill Recktenwald worked together to open a "fake" tavern called the Mirage Tavern to attempt to uncover bribery in investigators and inspectors.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, the BGA exposed fraud in the Chicago Public Schools, lax security at the O’Hare International Airport, and corrupt secretary of state George Ryan, among other investigations.



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