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Metra took its board members on a train ride to a monthly meeting. It cost the agency more than $10,000.

On a Wednesday morning in May, Metra staff and board members gathered at the LaSalle Street Station outside the Chicago Stock Exchange building. Ordinarily, they would have met at the commuter rail service’s headquarters blocks away for their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. But this morning, they were boarding a train for a trip along the Rock Island line to Will County, where they would . ....

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Illinois AG's office sees the fewest public access help requests in a decade

Each year over the past decade, the Illinois Attorney General s public access bureau averaged about 3,500 requests to review information queries denied by government agencies, but the number s been shrinking for years. ....

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