The OIG has released recommendations it made to the Chicago Department of Buildings (DOB) to improve DOB’s enforcement of Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) requirements. A City of Chicago Inspector General’s Office (OIG) inquiry into the DOB’s certificate of occupancy acquisition process found that in recent years as many as 48% of the properties […]
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Former City Inspector Sentenced to 2½ Years in Prison for Taking Bribes to Help More Than 500 Individuals Obtain State Food Sanitation Certificates
Maryanne Koll, a retired Chicago Public Health Department food sanitation inspector, was sentenced today to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bribery for accepting at least $96,930 in return for fraudulently arranging to provide bogus food service certificates for at least 531 individuals. The defendant, who operated Kollmar Food Safety Institute […]
Read MoreOIG Releases Report Describing the City’s Labor Agreements with its Police Officers and Firefighters
The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published a review of the collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) that govern the relationships between the City of Chicago and its police officers and firefighters. These CBAs affect nearly 17,000 current employees—over half the City’s workforce—and contain provisions that have a substantial financial impact on the […]
Read MoreOIG Finds Waste in City’s Emergency Contracting Practices
OIG has published a report on the Chicago Department of Procurement’s (DPS) emergency contracting process. The report details how DPS awarded a series of emergency contracts from March 2010 through April 2011 contrary to its own internal emergency procurement policies. Specifically, DPS awarded a supplier ten separate unadvertised emergency contracts for concrete sewer pipes without […]
Read MoreInspector General Issues Statement Respecting City Council Finance Committee Denial of Access to City Duty Disability Program Records
On May 18, 2012, the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) made a formal written request to the City Council Committee on Finance for access to databases related to the City’s self-managed and self-insured workers’ compensation program for reimbursing employees injured on the job—more commonly known as Duty Disability. The written request followed […]
Read MoreOIG Releases Report on City’s Reclassification Process
The OIG has published a review of the City’s position title reclassification process administered by the Department of Human Resources (DHR). The OIG review identifies deficiencies in the Reclassification Rules that inhibit the City’s reclassification system’s effectiveness, transparency and accountability. The City’s reclassification system is meant to ensure that employment positions are allocated to class […]
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