Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal

Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal

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The Illinois Transparency & Accountability Portal web site provides information about state employees’ pay, state expenditures, and state contracts. The text below explains general information about the Portal. For specific information about the available data, please refer to the Transparency & Illinois Accountability Portal Employees FAQ or the Expenditures FAQ.

Public Act 096-0225 is effective January 1, 2010, and requires the Department of Central Management Services (CMS) to have the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal (ITAP) established within 12 months of this effective date. The ITAP project was initiated with employee pay and state expenditure data from the agencies that fall under the jurisdiction of the Governor. The process of publishing data to this site is ongoing and CMS shall update ITAP as additional information becomes available in a format that can be compiled and published on ITAP.

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While all of the information contained on this site is an open record in accordance with Illinois law, there may be additional public records available regarding this data. Additional records can be obtained by making a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the appropriate records custodian(s) in the agency that possesses the documents in accordance with the law.

Site Availability

This site will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week except during necessary site maintenance. Employee data will be updated nightly with the prior business day’s transactions; the site will be closed between 12:00 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. during this maintenance window. Expenditures data will be updated nightly with the prior business day’s transactions; the site will be closed between 12:00 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. during this maintenance window. The information published will contain the most-current data available at the time.

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Belvidere council entertains possibilities for former Leath property

Building Size:156,219 SF

Property Type:Industrial

Property Sub-type:Warehouse

Additional Sub-types:Manufacturing

Property Use Type:Vacant/Owner-User

No. Stories:4

Year Built:1900

Clear Ceiling Height:12 ft.

Lot Size:3.34 A

Regional distribution center for a furniture retailer. Single story warehouse has 40,500 square feet with 26'-28' clear. Reminder of building is multi-story warehouse. Former sewing machine factory constructed of brick around 1900.

Brereton gave an overview of the types of plans Dean is considering, saying one plan is to locate a freezer section of the facility to the west and then using the large warehouse to the east of the Leath building for storage and space for research and development

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Rent here low nationally, middle of the road for Illinois

 

median rent paid in the U.S. in 2009, according to American Community Survey data, was $817 a month…Illinois was slightly below the national median at $813 a month…

Renters in the Rockford metropolitan area, which includes Boone and Winnebago counties, paid $661. That was less than renters had to pay in the Chicago, Champaign, St. Louis, Kankakee and Bloomington metro areas, but it is higher than Springfield, Peoria, the Quad Cities, Decatur and Danville metro areas.

Boone County ranked 14th out of 102 Illinois counties with a median rent of $690. Winnebago County was 17th at $659. Ogle came in 28th at $610 and Stephenson County was 50th with a rent of $553.

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Boone County Board starts search to replace member

 

Walberg said he will accept letters of interest through 5 p.m. Dec. 28. He did not, either during or after the meeting, explain the process he’d use to select a candidate.

I’d like the chairman to respect the wishes of the County Board and bring all of the applicants forward,” Glass said after the meeting. “If he only brings forward one name and there are six candidates, how can we make an educated decision without all of the facts?”

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Air Force Blocks Sites That Posted Secret Cables - NYTimes.com

 

When Air Force personnel on the service’s computer network try to view the Web sites of The Times, the British newspaper The Guardian, the German magazine Der Spiegel, the Spanish newspaper El País and the French newspaper Le Monde, as well as other sites that posted full confidential cables, the screen says “Access Denied: Internet usage is logged and monitored,” according to an Air Force official whose access was blocked and who shared the screen warning with The Times. Violators are warned that they face punishment if they try to view classified material from unauthorized Web sites.

Air Force Blocks Sites That Posted Secret Cables - NYTimes.com

Goals of DeKalb County jail's future debated | Daily Chronicle

DeKalb County prisoners are a big income to Boone County that may be changing soon.

[DeKalb] county has gotten turned down by Boone County when its jail is full, although it is fortunate Kendall County’s jail still has some room.
“Will the price go up? You bet it will,” Klein said.
The big problem is not having the right space for certain inmates with special needs because no one else will take some of those people, Klein said.

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Census may shed light on retail future in Rock River Valley - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

Take a look at the chart:

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