Municipalities' ethics boards often can't investigate mayors because mayors appointed their members. Niles is trying a new tack, an elected ethics board, but it have only advisory powers, like most appointed ethics boards.
Having already spent $145 million on his reelection campaign, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker shared his considerable personal fortune with other Democratic candidates and groups in the weeks before November s election, records show.
Demolishing the record set in each of the past two years, $1.22 billion poured into the city’s 129 TIF funds in 2021, according to a report from the office of the Cook County Clerk.