Freedom of Information Act

When lawmakers raised taxes on Illinois residents and businesses, they also increased corporate income tax breaks for a select group of companies. In 2011, businesses were eligible to claim about $161 million in tax credits — double from the...

Five civilian employees of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London and a service member were apparently turning the academy into their own swingers club. A Coast Guard investigation found that the six were engaging in sexual activity on the job and...

To text or not to text is the question that board members at the village of Winfield have grappled with for months. Yet despite quashing a bid last month to ban the use of electronic devices during Village Board meetings, the issue may be far from over....

When Highland Park City Council members agreed in late 2008 to spend $2.1 million buying a financially troubled downtown theater, they didn't know it was riddled with safety hazards and other problems that would cost another $2.6 million to fix. A...

Gail Vacca can pinpoint exactly when her love for horses began. She was 4, on a family vacation in New Jersey, and her horse-loving grandfather asked her if she wanted a pony ride. "I still remember it," says Vacca, founder and president of the...

Here's a list of the 25 highest salaries for Gloucester schools staff. The information was obtained from the school system under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Daily Press. Ben Kiser, superintendent – $146,261 Chuck Wagner,...

Winnetka School District 36 has reached a settlement with David Wartik, the teacher it fired last spring, according to an agreement obtained from the district through a Freedom of Information Act request. Wartik, a former fourth grade teacher at Hubbard...

Here is a list of the 25 highest-paid employees in Gloucester County government. This list does not include the school system. These records were obtained from the county by a Freedom of Information Act request of the Daily Press. 1) Brenda Garton,...

Ernest Withers watched the trajectory of the civil rights movement from behind his camera lens. He was in Mississippi in 1955 when an all-white jury acquitted two white men accused of brutally murdering Emmett Till, a visiting black Chicago teenager,...

Here is a list of the 25 county employees who received the most overtime payments in the 2011-12 budget year. The percentage in parentheses is the proportion of overtime to the employee's salary. The figures were obtained by the Daily Press under a...

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli decided to buck long-standing tradition by not giving up his office while he runs for governor. Cuccinelli's decision to stay in office has been widely panned, especially by those who have given up the post to run for...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Inspectors taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the federal government have found hundreds of structures at risk of failing and endangering people and property in 37 states. Levees deemed in...