The following is from Grassroots Collaborative, a coalition of 11 membership-based organizations in Illinois.
Mayor Emanuel insists on moving forward with the Chicago Infrastructure Trust ordinance, despite widespread questions around equity, transparency, and accountability.
Gaper’s Block wrote about the Sunlight Foundation, who states that “transparency and openness are the very foundations for public trust; without the former the latter cannot survive.”
Without transparency, there is no Trust. Pretty straightforward. So why does Emanuel insist on bulldozing this through?
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Dozens of community activists and angry CTA riders protested bank
deals which they claim take money from transit agencies in the lobby of a
Chase Bank at 10 S. Dearborn St. Thursday morning.
The dramatic Chicago Transit Authority announcement yesterday that it would suspend service on all its South Side Chicago Red Line train stations for five months next year could hold a crucial silver lining: CTA may be putting its ducks in a row to extend the Red Line to 130th St.