Adam Andrzejewski

A national leader in bringing transparency to government spending, Adam Andrzejewski, (Angie-f-ski) the eldest of seven, was born in rural Herscher Illinois, a hardworking, small town and family farm community.

After working his way through Northern Illinois University, Adam and his brother successfully built a $20 million dollar business which employed 160. Today, HomePages® is the nation’s largest publisher of  community telephone directories. Selling his share of the business to his brother in 2007, Adam began to focus on a life of public service.

In 2010, Adam ran for Governor of Illinois in the Republican primary. Adam was proud to be endorsed by Nobel Peace Prize winner and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, among others. During his campaign, Adam promised he would put “every dime online in real time.” Despite his loss on Election Day, Adam founded For the Good of Illinois (FGI) to fulfill his promise to put all Illinois local and state spending online as well as all federal government spending nationally.

OpenTheBooks.com, FGI’s transparency portal now has posted for public viewing the majority of all spending by Illinois’ nearly 7,000 units of government. OpenTheBooks.com will soon officially launch mobile Apps exposing federal spending to public scrutiny across America. Teresa Mull from The American Spectator wrote about the FGI OpenTheBooks.com Apps, “This may be the smartest thing smart phones have yet produced.”

Adam is happily married and the proud father of three beautiful little girls. He is an avid runner, having run the Chicago Marathon on numerous occasions.

Recent Accomplishments

★ Filed suit in Illinois to force Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka to release state government checkbook details of Illinois line-by-line spending.

★ Winner of the 2012 Business Leader of the Year Award from Illinois Crime Commission.

★ Posted online the vendor spending of every public Illinois college and university, with 6.8 million checks for $ 69 billion in spending since 2004.

★ Posted online the vendor spending of 870 Illinois school districts totaling $52 billion in spending since 2006.

★ Posted the salaries and pensions of 1.1 million public employees from all levels of Illinois government.

★ Posted the City of Chicago checkbook totaling $74 billion dollars in spending over 10 years.

★ Posted the federal checkbook totaling 77 million transactions for $ 31 trillion dollars: all contracts, loans, grants, insurance payments, farm subsidies, and direct payments