Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/foia/page/2/)
By making the TIF funding process more transparent, a bill proposed by Barbara Flynn Currie intends to free up hundreds of millions of dollars to aid Chicago Public Schools.
Almost two years before police officer Marco Proano opened fire on a car full of black teenagers on Chicago’s South Side, he fatally shot an African-American youth. But the Independent Police Review Authority didn’t release his name to the public because the incident was deemed a closed investigation.
Exclusion from state records law means basic information about armed campus security officers is unavailable to the public.
Legislation from Springfield mandates new requirements for Chicago officers, but debate over policing continues unabated.