Freedom of Information Act

A state inspector visiting south suburban Crestwood in 2007 had a question for one of its top water officials: How could the village have pumped out more water than it had claimed to purchase from nearby Alsip? Certified water operator Frank Scaccia...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The secretary of a board to turn around Michigan's lowest-performing schools says administrators took millions of dollars in loans from Detroit Public Schools without getting approval from the board members. Education...

Three years ago, a Los Angeles firm named 350Green was picked to build a large network of charging stations for electric vehicles in the Chicago area. Other contracts soon followed in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, California and Kansas. The project, which...

President Obama and all four living ex-presidents will attend the official dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on Thursday on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas.  According to the website, the library's mission...

Two companies are battling in court to take over Chicago's electric vehicle charging stations, which sit unfinished and abandoned amid a backlog of unpaid bills. Both JNS Holdings Corp. in Arlington Heights and Miami-based Car Charging Group claim to...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker has introduced a bill aimed at limiting the release of 911 recordings requested under the state's Freedom of Information Act. Republican Rep. Kurt Heise of Plymouth says he wants to strike balance between...

North Shore School District 112 was fined two years ago for multiple violations regarding asbestos removal projects at several of its schools dating back to 2007, but one teacher is still seeking answers. Steve Bartel, a Lincoln School fifth grade...

The Illinois Department of Human Rights has found "substantial evidence" that the Tinley Park Police Department discriminated against a Hispanic patrol officer when it passed him over for a specialty position. In a discrimination complaint filed with...

CHARLEVOIX -- Shirley Gillespie, 62, has been hired as director of the Charlevoix County Commission on Aging after former director, Jack Messer retired at the end of March. The county board of commissioners interviewed and unanimously voted to hire...

CME Group has claimed that the top U.S. derivatives regulator improperly shared sensitive market data with outside researchers who published academic papers about high-frequency trading. A Dec. 14, 2012 letter from CME Group Inc., the largest U.S....

The state Senate on Wednesday approved a renewable energy bill that would increase the percentage of electricity that must come from clean sources, such as solar and wind. But environmentalists said provisions of the bill could benefit giant power...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is certainly looking all spiffy and new these days. Mary Jo White, the former federal prosecutor and Debevoise & Plimpton law partner, has taken over as chairman. She tapped her longtime deputy at the Southern...