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We Welcome- Michale Callahan, Illinois State Police (ret.)

“Since when is murder, Too Politically Sensitive?” Michale Callahan, Lieutenant Commander, Illinois State Police (ret.) If you’re going to live [...]


Illinois Is Broke! Website

Everyone in Illinois is talking about the commercials, click here. The knock at the door, the mother with child, and the voice that wants a check for $30,000. “I wasn’t talking to you (mother).” The voice is talking to the child.


Illinois has… Corruption? Subscriber Email

“If it isn’t the most corrupt state in the United States, it’s certainly one hell of a competitor.” Robert Gates, [...]


Illinois Budget Blues Continue…

Editor Note: In a For The Good of Illinois subscriber email on November 4, 2011, we forecast “The Next Income [...]


The Strenuous Life- Reviewing 2011

“… do not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil”  Teddy Roosevelt, April 10, 1899 Hamilton Club, Chicago [...]


OpenTheBooks Application for IPhone & IPad

Today, For The Good of Illinois releases our OpenTheBooks App.  Now, citizens have instant access to the pay of virtually [...]


A Bureaucrat making…THAT? Introducing our App.

Subscriber Email December 21, 2011 “There’s an App for that…” $154,000 for a library media specialist? Paying $221,000 for a [...]


Local & State Governments More Open Than Ever- St. Louis Post Dispatch

By Kevin McDermott December 10, 2011 St. Louis Post Dispatch Springfield to Jefferson City to Washington, government today has more [...]


Face of Republican Failure

  Click here to read this post at www.forthegoodofillinoispac.com. “THE FACE OF REPUBLICAN FAILURE” Wall Street Journal May 11, 2010


Roger Eddy- Total Compensation of $283,520 plus.

December 4, 2011 “IT’S JUST WRONG.” For 2011, Eddy has a total compensation package funded by Illinois taxpayers of over [...]


“You Are Called”- For The Good of Illinois Champaign Banquet

On Saturday, November 12th, 160 people, including much of the economic engine of Champaign County, gathered at the Hilton Garden [...]


Loophole Lets Union Officials Claim Big Teacher Pensions- St. Louis Post- Dispatch

Note: We tipped the Post-Dispact to this story. The facts were derived from www.openthebooks.com and subsequent Freedom of Information Act [...]


2nd Appearance, Andrzejewski on National Radio Show

Listen HERE to Adam Andrzejewski, founder of For The Good of Illinois discuss the fiscal condition of Illinois. Who can [...]


Liberty Lunch- DuPage with Phil Kerpen, “Democracy Denied”

Is Illinois running well? For the last three years I’ve asked that question across Illinois. No one has ever raised [...]


For The Good of Illinois VIP Banquet- Champaign

On Saturday, November 12 at the Hilton Garden Inn- Champaign, we host our For The Good of Illinois VIP Banquet: [...]