The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released an advisory following up on its 2017 audit of the Aldermanic Menu Program (“Menu”), which found that the City perpetuates significant inequities between wards and underfunds residential street infrastructure needs by approximately $228.8 million annually. The previous administration disagreed with our findings and declined […]
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OIG Follow-Up Inquiry Finds CPD’s School Resource Officer Program Has Not Fully Implemented Recommendations nor Included Community Stakeholders
The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Public Safety Section has issued a follow-up of the Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) management of School Resource Officers (SRO) assigned to Chicago Public Schools (CPS). Based on the Department’s responses, OIG concludes that CPD has fully implemented one recommendation and four recommendations still remain pending. Our 2018 review determined […]
Read MoreOIG Follow Up on the Chicago Department of Transportation’s Management of the Public Way Finds Some Recommendations Are Not Fully Implemented
The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has completed a follow-up to its January 2018 audit evaluating the design and implementation of the Chicago Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) management of construction in the public way. Based on the Department’s response, OIG concludes that CDOT has made progress, but more work remains to fully […]
Read MoreOIG Releases Third Annual Procurement Reform Task Force Progress Report
The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has completed its Third Annual Progress Report on the work of the Procurement Reform Task Force (PRTF). The Chief Procurement Officer Committee’s 2018 Annual Report indicated that its Participating Members had fully addressed 23 recommendations and partially addressed the remaining 8. OIG concludes that the Participating […]
Read MoreOIG Inquiry Finds That the City Has Not Fully Implemented Several Recommendations for Improving Transparency, Accountability, and Efficiency in Chicago’s TIF Program
The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has completed an inquiry into the City’s implementation of recommendations issued in 2011 by the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Reform Panel. OIG found that the City only partially implemented the Panel’s recommendations and urges the new administration to revisit the recommendations that were not fully implemented […]
Read MoreInspector General’s Statement to the Cook County Board of Commissioners Criminal Justice Committee
Statement from Inspector General Joseph Ferguson to the Cook County Board of Commissioners – Criminal Justice Committee, May 14, 2019 Last month, the Public Safety section of the City of Chicago’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) published an evaluation of the Chicago Police Department’s so called “Gang Database.” We reported that CPD does not have […]
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