We don’t pretend to know all that went into the successful and ongoing changes in this large suburban Chicago county, but it’s clear who led the charge: DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin spearheaded the DuPage ACT Initiative. There has been one major exception: DuPage County leaders have managed to find the secret sauce necessary to make significant good-government reforms a reality. If there was a surprise in its quick demise, it was how swiftly and easily elected officials whose jobs would be examined were able to kill, at least for now, the effort to take a closer look at more collaborative ways of doing things with taxpayer dollars…īut reform advocates have been shouting to an empty room for years as evidenced by the minuscule progress which has been made in efforts to right-size Illinois government. For the best coverage of the Illinois Quad-Cities, visit us at. Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, national and local news articles, sports, advertisements, entertainment, fashion and lifestyle pages, comics, and more.

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