by Illinois Green Party | Mar 20, 2018 | MWRD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2018 Illinois Green Party Secretary@ILGP.org PRELIMINARY STATEMENT ON VOTE SUPPRESSION IN COOK COUNTY (2018 PRIMARY ELECTION) COOK COUNTY — The Illinois Green Party strongly condemns the conduct of poll workers in Cook County...
by Illinois Green Party | Mar 19, 2018 | MWRD
Here’s a story that stinks: Cook County’s sewage management and flood prevention agency, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD), costs taxpayers more than a billion dollars a year. Where’s all that money going? Turns out, about 60% of all...
by Illinois Green Party | Mar 18, 2018 | MWRD
Cook County taxpayers spend over a billion dollars a year on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD). In return, they’re supposed to get clean water and effective sewage treatment—but reporting by the Chicago Tribune showed that the...
by Illinois Green Party | Mar 15, 2018 | MWRD
It’s a unique approach for a politician asked about pay-to-play donations: hold up the ethics standards of Chicago and Cook County, famous worldwide for their machine politics and backroom deals, as the model for your campaign. In a Daily Herald article on the...
by Illinois Green Party | Mar 10, 2018 | MWRD
There’s money in the sewer system, and not just the loose change that falls down drains: over the past five years, elected Democrats on the Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) awarded their campaign...
by Illinois Green Party | Mar 8, 2018 | MWRD
In theory, Cook County’s taxpayer-funded Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) is run by a miniature legislative body: an elected, nine-member Board of Commissioners, whose votes determine which plans go ahead and which do not, which contracts are...
