October 2, 2007

In This Issue:

  • Save the Date: ICPR is Ten
  • 800 Attend FCC Hearing (Including Cindi Canary)
  • Website Back and Better than Ever

Save the Date: ICPR is Ten
ICPR is excited to celebrate our Tenth Anniversary this year! We're having a party in Chicago at the Freedom Museum in the Tribune Tower on November 7th. And we're glad to be able to pay due tribute to some Illinoisans who have supported reform for as long as we have, or longer: Illinois Issues editor Peggy Boyer Long and Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes. We hope you can join us for this event. For more information, please visit our website here.


800 Attend FCC Hearing (Including Cindi Canary)
The Federal Communications Commission was in town on September 20 to hear the public's concerns about media ownership, and 800 people turned out to tell them. Including ICPR's own Cindi Canary, who was invited by the FCC to testify on the first of two panels that night. Cindi's testimony is available for download here. The hearing ran three hours over its scheduled end-time of 11 pm (yes, it ran until two in the morning) so that TV viewers and radio listeners from around the region would have time to speak. If you missed it, CAN-TV is rebroadcasting the entire proceedings on CAN Channel 21 on Sunday, October 14 starting at 9am and running all day.


Website Back and Better than Ever
We apologize if you've tried to get to our award-winning website lately and couldn't find it. All of the tenants in our building have had the same problem, resulting from a shift in Internet service providers. That transition is on-going, but should be finished by the end of the week. While you were sporadically unable to see the site, we were making improvements, posting data for state and Chicago candidates for the first half of the year. In the next week we anticipate adding profiles on more than 50 donors to the index page updating the career patrons, and filing new Cook County data.

ICPR Spotcheck is a publication of The Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, a non-partisan public interest group that educates, conducts research, and advocates reforms to promote public participation in government, address the role of money in politics, and encourage integrity, accountability, and transparency in government.

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