{"id":14451,"date":"2019-06-14T18:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=14451"},"modified":"2019-06-14T18:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T23:01:31","slug":"new-ethics-reform-package-introduced-at-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=14451","title":{"rendered":"New Ethics Reform Package Introduced at City Council\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10000\" src=\"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/City-of-Chicago.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week at City Council, a new package of ethics reforms were introduced that will increase ethics requirements for members of the City Council and bring greater transparency to the City&#8217;s legislative and policymaking processes. The\u00a0proposed changes include restrictions to outside Aldermanic employment, expanded City Council oversight by the Office of the Inspector General and increased fines for ethics violations.<\/p>\n<p>Alderman Reilly was on WGN Radio to discuss the Mayor&#8217;s new ethics initiatives. \u00a0Click the following links for more information about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicago.gov\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/mayor\/Press%20Room\/Press%20Releases\/2019\/June\/NewPackageEthicsReforms.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethics reforms<\/a>\u00a0and to listen to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wgnradio.com\/2019\/06\/12\/ald-brendan-reilly-on-mayor-lori-lightfoots-ethics-package-the-people-want-city-hall-cleaned-up-and-they-picked-a-good-leader-to-do-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">radio show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0Alderman Reilly Reports 6\/14\/19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at City Council, a new package of ethics reforms were introduced that will increase ethics requirements for members of the City Council and bring greater transparency to the City&#8217;s legislative and policymaking processes. The\u00a0proposed changes include restrictions to outside Aldermanic employment, expanded City Council oversight by the Office of the Inspector General and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}