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Feds anti-corruption oversight of IL state hiring practices ends after 50 years, in win for Pritzker

By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Oct 6, 2022 @ 5:23pm

A federal judge, under orders from an appeals court, has formally ended the so-called Shakman Decrees, intended to prevent officials, like the governor, from using patronage hiring to boost political power
Pritzker: Federal court-appointed hiring monitor has no authority to evaluate IDPH COVID pandemic temp lab tech hires

By Jonathan Bilyk | Monday, Apr 4, 2022 @ 7:55pm

The Pritzker administration has asked a federal judge to deny an attempt by a court-appointed state government hiring monitor to force the state to turn over details about how it hired allegedly unqualified lab techs at the Illinois Department of Public Health in the early days of the COVID pandemic
Hiring monitor: Illinois has 'work to do' before court-ordered oversight of state hiring practices can be lifted

By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Sep 17, 2020 @ 9:09pm

The filing comes in response to Gov. JB Pritzker's try to end the court decrees that gives federal monitors the authority to combat patronage hiring in state government.