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ICPR and IL AG Support Montana's Right to Regulate Campaign Finance
Risks of Corruption from "Independent" Expenditures
A brief history of SuperPACs
ICPR calls on Cook County Redistricting Committee to provide more information, opportunities for public to participate
Federal prosecutors, Ill. Attorney General discuss political corruption and reform at ICPR event
Freedom from Oversight: The ICPR FOIA Report
SEIU and Others Report Independent Expenditures
ICPR outlines ways to improve transparency, accountability in Chicago government to Ethics Task Force
ICPR Defends Contribution Limits and Warns Against Opening Door to More Corruption
Public redistricting hearings show Chicago aldermen have more work to do
With Chicago ward remapping underway, ICPR looks at City Council's pledge to open process
ICPR Statement to the Campaign Finance Reform Task Force December 15 Public Hearing
ICPR to task force: Public financing is attractive and viable
ICPR asks Chicago aldermen to ramp up efforts to engage public in ward redistricting
General Assembly Puts Witness Slips On-Line
Chicago residents: Get involved in the redrawing of your ward
Campaign contributors get pensions for their lobbyists
Special Interests Giving to Politicians Ahead of Veto Session
ICPR asks Chicago City Council to open ward redistricting to public
Cellini: A career and a trial, two different things
Illinois needs tougher recusal standards
Chicago 2011 Inauguration Donors Added to ICPR's Sunshine Database
California Campaigns and the Future of Campaign Financial Disclosure
Supreme Court chips away at public financing component, but framework stands
Corporate spending and the risks of anonymous hate speech
Public Officials and their Personal Finances
Assessing pay to play
ICPR says "no" to FOIA rollback, urges Legislature to use caution when considering changes
ICPR's Redistricting Testimony
New Players in the Workers Comp Debate?
Lawmakers looking at ways to make Illinois government a little less open
ICPR Applauds Federal Pay-to-Play Rules
ICPR calls on House Redistricting Committee to bring more sunshine into remap
Plan to rollback open records law advances, but with commitment to negotiate changes
Mapmakers as Kingmakers?
Ameren and Others Giving to Legislators
Campaign contributions "to keep the police off their back"
Over $2 Million in Resources for Next Tuesday's Runoffs
House Democrats announce remap committee and public hearing schedule
Residents outline flaws with current district borders, urge Senate redistricting committee to make draft maps public
Chicago Run-offs Account for $1.6 Million in Fundraising
SBE Votes Against ICPR Complaint
ICPR Testimony on Party and Caucus Transfers
Legislative Leaders and Parties Pay for 63% of Spending in Hot Races
Shine a light on ... redistricting: Models of how to raise public involvement, participation in 2011 remap
A Quirk in the Law or Just Wrong?
Legislators and parties have raised over $1M in 2011
Updated Aldermanic Numbers (more on the website)
For a Better Chicago is the Top Donor to Aldermanic Candidates
The (Census) numbers are in
Put Black Boxes on Airplanes, not in Campaign Finance
Clerk Candidate Mendoza Holds Big Financial Advantage with Assist from Schock
Labor Tops Giving to Chicago Council Candidates
Top Aldermanics
Better Late than Never (Updated with Proft filing)
Buzzer Beaters: Large Donations in the Weeks Before Limits Took Effect
Raising the Bar in Economic Transparency
State Board of Elections Says Computer Fix Is On The Way
New Education Money - Stand for Children Discloses Fundraising
A Nation of Laws, not of Politics
Improved Disclosure in Campaign Finance
House Democrats say they may go above, beyond transparency requirements in redistricting bill
You Can Help Grow Our Young Leaders in Public Interest Seminar Series
Loss of IL Congressional seat likely to hurt state GOP more than Democrats
Reporters get the scoop on contribution limits, FOIA at ICPR co-sponsored workshop
One after another, editorial boards tell lawmakers IL needs sunshine in redistricting process
Death by AV
Senate redistricting proposal falls short on transparency
Petition Follies, 2011
ICPR Supports Chicago's Asset Lease Taxpayer Protection Ordinance
Two Parties, Common Donors
Lawmakers look to chip away at disclosure law in veto session
Dollars per Vote
Kilbride wins retention, but campaign illustrates need for action
Who’s funding the party?
Statement of Economic Interest 'does not apply' to Government Transparency
You have until 7 pm
Don't forget the judges: Resources to help Cook County voters puzzled by judicial candidate choices
Candidate Sighted!
DPI Supports the Incumbent in the 22nd House District (who also chairs DPI)
Changing where the money is from
Catch a Wave: Cash for Keats
More than $3.2 million raised between Kilbride, opponents; WGN dubs race "one of the most bitter campaigns" in state
Million$ in Motion in Lead Up to Last Weekend
Tonight! Kilbride story on WGN Channel 9 Evening News
Cook County voters have new resource for evaluating retention-seeking judges
Hey Brother, can I borrow $100k?
Like Illinois' Kilbride, retention-seeking judges in other states targeted by opposition groups
$700K More for the RGA Illinois PAC
Investing in the Heartland
Overall Kilbride retention funding surpasses $3 million; NPR profiles the contest
A New Voice in the Party? Plus, Dugan & McAsey get DPI Funds, and Colvin Files
Kilbride logs more Democratic Party, teacher's union money; Opponent JUSTPAC fundraising continues but doesn't keep pace
Scott Lee Cohen at $5.7M
Too Much Data on the State Board of Elections Website
Much ado about Kilbride opponents' radio ad
Candidates who Failed to Disclose
Kilbride retention race leads nation for most expensive retention campaign
Is Cook County going Dem?
Group seeking to oust Kilbride from Supreme Court reports $165,000 in business money
Democratic Party of Illinois gives Justice Kilbride $1.25 million to support retention bid
Big checks continue flowing on both sides of Kilbride retention bid
Big Transfers from the Republican Caucuses in Legislative Races
Kilbride opponent JUSTPAC reports $165,000 in business, hospital group money
AFSCME reports $650K, Stand for Children, Griffin Family Close Behind
Illinois Federation of Teachers puts $350,000 into Kilbride retention effort
Kilbride opponents report six-figure check
Update on Campaign Finance
The ads and the money in the Justice Kilbride retention campaign
Stand for Children, and these 9 candidates
More A1 Reports
A1 Season Has Begun
Strenghening the Pay-to-Play Ban
Political Non-Profits
Guide to Watching TV Ads
An Inspector General for Metra
Cook County Lobbyist Info Now Available
D2 Day Update
Clean hiring
Petition Sunshine
Honest Services and the Blagojevich Trial
A senate seat for ethics
Implementing Campaign Finance Reform
ICPR Statement on the Future of Redistricting Reform
House Democrats say "no"...to House Democratic campaign finance bill
ICPR Opposes Partisan Redistricting
Protecting Freedom
Another model of economic disclosure
Lobbyist Registration Begins Today
Picking a Back-up
Win Win in Chicago?
Chicago Sigs
Citizens Repudiate Unlimited Corporate Campaign Spending
Kudos on a Couple of Stories
Top Races in Cook County
Top Statewide and Legislative Contests for Next Tuesday's Primary
Top Judicial Races for Next Week's Primary Election
Cook Knows; Why Don't the Rest of Us?
Court Ruling to Deliver $300M Boost to Media
Happy Holidays, from your political committee
Lobbyist Registration Suspended
Voter Registration - Today, Tomorrow, Next Week Even (but don't dally)
ICPR Says Contribution Limits Bill is Victory for Illinois Voters
Phillies in Five!!!
CHANGE Illinois! Says Agreement to Limit Campaign Contributions Puts Illinois on the Road to Reform
CHANGE Illinois Says Campaign Contribution Limits Must Be Applied Fairly and Across-The-Board
Supreme Court Upholds Importance of Elections
Cindi Canary in the News
Citizens United, and Citizens' Elections
The Race Is On (Blog)
Testing the Blog
Ding, Dong, HB 7 is dead!
The Race Is ON
HB 7 in Detail: Independent Expenditures
HB 7 in Detail: Effective Date
HB 7 in Detail: Calendar year cycles
HB 7 in Detail: Penalties for violations
A victory for reform: Freedom of Information Act improvements signed into law
HB 7 in Detail: Constituent Services
A look at what's on the the governor's desk
HB 7 in Detail: Defining when a committee "receives" a contribution
HB 7 in Detail: Ballot Questions
Fix FOIA Now
A Good, Clean Campaign
Problems with Proposed Lobbying Changes
Picking the Pickers: Redistricting Update
Compare and Contrast
If only we didn't need FOIA
D2 Day Interim Report
De-rigging Redistricting
Disclosure Update
Congratulations, Rep. Mike Fortner
ICPR Says Court Ruling Shows Need for Public Financing
Blago Bio
ICPR SAYS MUCH MORE WORK NEEDED ON CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LIMITS LEGISLATION
Real, Meaningful Contribution Limits
CHANGE Illinois! Tells General Assembly Not To Play Games
We need reform like yesterday's editorials
PUBLIC RALLY CALLS FOR AN END TO CORRUPTION IN ILLINOIS POLITICS
Now only 4 states have unregulated campaign finance systems
ICPR AND SUNSHINE PROJECT REACT TO BLAGOJEVICH INDICTMENT
Calls for reform, getting louder
ICPR Finds Contract Lobbyists Were Paid $6 Million in Government Funds to Influence State Government
New Mexico Sends Contribution Limits Measure to Governor
ASK LEGISLATORS TO LIMIT CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTONS
Campaign Finance Reform -- Really
March Forth
Slay the Monster
Speak Out -- Here's Where and When
Time to Get to Work
Twenty Ways to Stop Corruption
Illinois Residents See Broad Corruption in State Government and Seek Action for Change
Rod Blagojevich: Alone with his Money?
Who would give Rod Blagojevich $617,643?
ICPR HELPS ILLINOISANS BOOT BLAGO
Warm, coal-fueled holidays
Number 2 in the nation? Or Number 3?
December 9 in Retrospect
Had enough?
Now is not the time to commute George Ryan’s sentence
Crain's looks at lobbying at the federal level
Reform FOIA
Cook County Downballot Results
Vote Today Until 7 pm
Updates to Legislative, Judicial, and Cook County State's Attorney fundraising
Contenders to the Senate Presidency Donate Over $1 Million to Democratic Candidates to the State Senate
TOP 10 DONORS TO LEGISLATIVE CONTESTS GAVE $4.3 MILLION
The Ethics of the Ethics Vote
EIGHT GENERAL ASSEMBLY BATTLES HAVE PASSED OR ARE NEAR THE $1 MILLION MARK AND OTHERS LIKELY TO JOIN
YOU CAN BE A CANDIDATE AND NEVER FILE AN ACCURATE CAMPAIGN FINANCE DISCLOSURE REPORT!
ICPR STUDY SAYS ILLINOIS ECONOMIC INTEREST STATEMENTS ARE WOEFULLY INADEQUATE
Zero Plus Four is a Problem for Illinois
Art for Reform's Sake
New PACs
Just Weeks to Election Day - Get your information here
Tollway Revolving Door Opens Ethics Questions
ICPR WELCOMES REJECTION OF GOVERNOR’S VETO OF PAY-TO-PLAY REFORM LEGISLATION
Senate to Reconvene: Emil Jones
Reconvene the Senate Now
Dr. Blagojevich, you’ve created a monster!
Sen. Emil Jones' Campaign Fund: a half-million dollar personal bank account?
Amerigroup giving
WellPaying Contributor to Blagojevich Back in the News
ICPR SAYS NO TO MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR SPENDING WITHOUT PAY-TO-PLAY REFORMS
State contractor: Stop me before I give money to the governor again
State contractor: Stop me before I give money to the governor again
State Rep Annazette Collins reports $110K in contributions; apologizes for not telling anyone.
Blagojevich's Lost Fundraiser
State contractors continue contributing to Gov. Blagojevich
Pay-to-Play Bill Sent to Governor
Illinoisans Trust Reform is Possible
ICPR Statement on the Conviction of Tony Rezko
Who is he kidding?
REFORM ADVOCATES CALL ON GOV. BLAGOJEVICH TO STOP ACCEPTING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM STATE CONTRACTORS
The slow but steady march of reform
Con Con Considerations: Presentation
Con Con Considerations: Duration
Pay-to-Play Bill Secures Senate Passage
Convention Considerations: Vacancies
Con Con Considerations: Compensation
Con Con Considerations: Location
Con Con Considerations: Transparency
Con Con Considerations: Petition Signatures
Con Con Considerations: Bulleting
Con Con Considerations: Special Election, or Regular?
ICPR STATEMENT ON PAY-TO-PLAY LEGISLATION
Con Con Considerations: Party Affiliation
GOVERNMENTS SPENT $5 MILLION TO LOBBY STATE GOVERNMENT
Silly?
ICPR SEEKS INVESTIGATION OF CAMPAIGN COMMITTEES SUPPORTING A CHICAGO ALDERMAN AND A STATE LEGISLATOR
Great Leaps
SENATE SUPPORT FOR HOUSE BILL 1 JUST KEEPS GROWING
MDN STATEMENT CALLING ON ALL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO CLARIFY PUBLIC FINANCING AND OTHER REFORM POSITIONS
Semi-Final Fundraising Totals
Updated Fundraising Totals (Including Judicial)
Top Fundraising Races in the 2008 Primary
New Sunshine
D2 Day
ILLINOIS JUDICIAL ELECTION GUIDE NOW ON-LINE
A Call to Action from America's Heartland
Judicial Elections in the News
New Year, New Rules, New Server
Chris Kelly's Campaign Contributions
Chris Kelly Indicted
Board of Elections Assesses $25K Fine Against Todd Stroger PAC
Fighting corruption: The big picture
Fighting corruption, one person at a time
Admitting Ill. has a gambling problem
Ryan Appeal Denied
Dependents as Donors and Dependent Candidates
Open Book
What Pat Quinn Really Thinks of Pay-to-Play
Who's Going to Give the Governor $3-5 Million?
Illinois Campaign Disclosure Ranked #1, and #29, in the Country
Update: State Board of Elections Postpones Decision on Stroger's A-1 Fines
Discounts for law-breaking politicians
ICPR to Celebrate 10-Year Anniversary
Willing and ABLE
Note to Legislature: Legislation, not Personality Conflict, is the Reason for Sessions
How to Speak to the FCC
STATE’S MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR CONSTRUCTION PLANS NEED SAFEGUARD AGAINST POLITICS
The Feds are Really Coming
The Feds Are Coming
Broadcasters and the Public Interest
United Services Delivers for the Governor
Chicago, that error-prone town
111 Days
Data Update
Protect Integrity of Capital Spending Plan with Pay-to-Play Reform Legislation
U.S. Lobbying
PAY-TO-PLAY REFORM HELD HOSTAGE IN SENATE
Powerage
D2 Day
Monahan Money
Do Things Right
Deadline to Disclosure
Special Session for Ethics?
Sausage and Gridlock
Earlier Disclosure
End Pay to Play Already
Standing in the way of reform
Lobbyists Everywhere, Reform Frozen
RELEASE HB 1
Waiting for Lobbying Reforms
Moving the Calendars
Lobbyists as Campaign Fundraisers
Banning Pay to Play
Reform: 116 - Pay to Play: 0.
Utility Donations and the Forby Amendment
Observations on Chicago's Runoffs
Updated Runoff Totals
$3.3M Reported in Chicago Runoffs; $25M Total
Daley Dough
Chicago Database, Updated
Ethics and State Employees
Chicago Cash
Follow the money
ICPR Supports National Sunshine Week
CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAYOR DALEY’S CAMPAIGN COMING AT A FAST CLIP
$16M for Contested Chicago Council Races
Action Heroes
Let the Searches Begin
Snow Jobs
Clean, or no?
Judging the Elections, Electing the Judges
Richard Daley and the City Lites
Top Legislative Races in the 2006 General
Wierdness with the Strogers
Goes to 11
Kudos to one of our favorites
About those discs…
Paper Tigers
Why Campaign Finance Reform?
Leading by Leadership
Most Politicians are Ho's
Reform Now
STAND BY FOR NEWS . . . BUT NOT MUCH NEWS!
With a Capital C
2006 Judicial Contests: Same Interests, Different Result, Same Outcome?
It's time to stop collecting campaign cash. Time to lead by example.
Today's the day - UPDATED
Fundraising Update 11/6
Updated Numbers 11/3
Blago on the Tube
Downstate Judicial Races Leave Records in the Dust
It's Not Over Until...
Fundraising Update 10/26
Trickle Down Record Breaking
Fundraising Update
Preparing for the Pres
Power Surge (Updated)
Third Time's a Charm?
Rezko, Campaigns, and Government
Power Surge
What we know, and when we know it
Will Cook Shake and Bake Shakman?
And Now, the Debate(s)
"Makes Me Want to Puke"
Seek and Find
Just Report It
Politics, Pirates and Cook County Candidates
Why They Give (Donors' Perspectives)
Hopeful yet Discontent
Where They Stand: Candidates and Reform
Statement on the Sentencing of former Gov. George Ryan
Blago's Back
Who has money and where did they get it?
Have Wallet, Will Travel
Legislators at Risk?
Big Money
Report It Now (dot net)
Injudicious Fundraising
The Stragglers (D2 Day)
Claypool (D2 Day)
D2 Notices
Mop Up (D2 Day)
Blago, and some others (D2 Day)
Topinka's in (D2 Day)
Comptroller Candidates, plus Docs (D2 Day)
More Statewides (D2 Day)
Senate in Session (D2 Day)
Party Time (D2 Day)
Got Debt (D2 Day)
On the Air in Chicago
Lobbyists Everywhere (Cook Co. Edition)
Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Win Me a Seat
President Bush Comments ... sort of ... on Patrick Fitzgerald
Patronage is Still Wrong
Forgotten Penalties
If Kinko's charged a dollar a page...
Limiting Limits
Da Mare, Listlessly
State of Economic Interest
Prison Cheese
The Governor, Listlessly
Don't Touch that Dial
Wanna Bet There's a Connection?
What were they thinking?
An Open Letter to the Reform Community from the Governor (via the Board of Elections)
We're ICPR and We Had Fun Last Night
IPA/IGA
Leaders, or Candidates?
How Springfield is Not DC
We [heart] Carol
AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE CAMPAIGN REFORM COMMUNITY TO GOVERNOR ROD BLAGOJEVICH
ICPR Announces Paul Simon Public Service Awards
Ethics Debate Today
Leading Away from Ryan
ICPR Looks Beyond the Ryan Verdict
Cook Judicial Totals (est.)
Final Tally v.2
Final Tally
Early Preview of the Late Money
Down the Stretch
Cook County Tidbits and Pieces
I've got a question for you...
Tea Leaves
Tidbits and Pieces
Pre-senting...
Fun with A1s
Friday updates
Disclosure Updates
The Unguarded Henhouse
D2 Updating
Catching Up
Silent Night
Fair Campaigns
Clarifying Statements (of Economic Interest)
Quint
Torts and Detriments
Judicial Filing Follies
Break out the Champaign
Code Talkers
Filling In Period
Dash of Disclosure
USA Today, Tomorrow Illinois
Stone Soup
Following Connecticut's Lead (update)
I Owe, I owe...
Respect for Voters
Minow on the line
Big Media Conference
First Past the Post - Updated!
Gavels and Ballot Boxes
Have Ya Ever Noticed - Career Patrons
The Most Powerful Voice in America
Who's Up, So That Cohen's Down
The Real Cost
Beatings will Continue Until Morale Improves
DeLay Shows the Way to Public Financing
Hurrah for the Faceless AP Editors!
Lobbyists from the State House
Damned if you do...
Vast wasteland or great conversation?
Power Markets
Reformers Praise Illinois State Board of Elections
Updating Aesop
Civic Footprint
Where's Rep. Giles?
The Candidate’s New Clothes
More, please
Who Are the Low Numbers?
Newton Minow to Speak at ICPR Media Conference: November 15
Daily Grind
Maybe it grows on trees?
Not Over Yet
Richard Parillo and the Legal Defense Fund
Campaign Finance Reform DeLay-ed
Following Connecticut's Lead
Shrink the Contractors
The $156,423.70 Question
Playin downstate
Pattern?
Whiplash
Med Mal Law Signing
New Sunshine
Lobbyists Everywhere
Second Indictment (in as many days)
Levine Indicted Again, more to come
House Republicans File
Giles Files, Chavez doesn't
Wrap Up
Lisa Madigan Files
Topinka Files
Blago's In
Due Day, Part Deux
Due Day
Chicken for the Sunday Carving
First of the Four Tops, plus Rauschenberger Files
Lawyers, Nursing homes, and candidates
AMEREN, Salvation, AFSCME, Ethics
Miller Roskam & Dart (and Noland, and LaHood)
Ameren Bromberg Schock Watson et alia
Filing Update (Berman, Comcast,Syverson)
Tuesday's Filing Update (IEA,Lang, Devine)
Observations (July 18)
New State Board Website; New Fundraising Numbers
Gotta be noon somewhere
Tristano Indicted
McCain's Reform Institute Supports Illinois Proposals
ICPR Supports Campaign Finance Proposal
Stuart Levine Indicted
Central Management, Contractors and Contributions
Updated Sunshine
Contractor Contributions
More Reform
Tort Reformers for Civil Dialogue?
Wide Variety of Reform Proposals
Legislation Update
ICPR Applauds Contractor Contribution Restrictions
Giles Files
New Legislation
Waiting for Giles
D2: The Day After
D2: Deadline Day, the sequel
D2: Deadline Day
D-2 Update
Fans Await D2
New Legislation
You Want Fries With That?
The Ethics of Trash Dumps
U.S. Attorney Releases Proffer in Case Against Former Gov. George Ryan
Gordon Maag Files $110 Million Suit
Chicago Election Ad Charts Published
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