Cutting Costs, Raising Revenues: The Future of Chicago’s Budget & Finances
From the City Club of Chicago: Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Chicago's Budget Director, discuss their efforts to reduce the city's budget deficit. We hear...
Are Chicago’s Finances at the Brink?
From the City Club of Chicago: A panel, including columnist John Kass, and Lawrence Msall, of the Civic Federation, discuss the growing financial strain...
Embezzling $53 MILLION: How Rita Crundwell Operated the Largest Municipal Fraud...
From the City Club of Chicago, Attorney Devon Bruce recounts how former comptroller and treasurer of the City of Dixon, Rita Crundwell, managed to...
Protecting Chicago in an Age of Terrorism
Michael Masters tells a City Club of Chicago gathering about efforts to make Chicago more secure, while meeting the need to balance the free...
Investigating Death: Cinda Edwards on the Role of the Coroner
We talk with Cinda Edwards, Coroner for Sangamon County, about the role of the Coroner's office in determining the cause of death, gathering evidence,...
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From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: We talk with historian and fmr military officer, Mark DePue on his work of conducting indepth oral history...