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Quarterly Report of the Office of Inspector General Fourth Quarter 2015
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Joseph M. Ferguson Inspector General
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
City of Chicago
740 N Sedgwick, Suite 200 Chicago. Illinois 60654 Telephone: (773)478-7799 Fax: (773)478-3949
January 15, 2016
To the Mayor, Members ofthe City Council, the City Clerk, the City Treasurer, and the residents of the City of Chicago:
Enclosed for your review is the public report on the operations of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) during the fourth quarter of 2015, filed with the City Council pursuant to Section 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago.
As 2015 came to a close the City of Chicago grappled with serious questions about the meaning of accountable, ethical government. Though these questions took on an immediacy in 2015, their importance and urgency is not new. OIG has played and will continue to play a role in the answering these questions. During the pivotal moment in the City's history, we hold steadfast in promoting OIG's mission to fight for honest and efficient government and, as reflected in the quarterly report, continue to work towards new and collaborative ways of doing so.
This quarterly report demonstrates some of the many facets of OIG's effort to ensure City government is accountable to the public including investigations of theft and the misuse of public funds, theft of City resources, false reports of police. In addition, this past quarter the Chicago Procurement Reform Task Force, for which I served as a Co-Chair, along with the City's Chief Procurement Officer, Jamie Rhee, issued a report detailing findings and recommendations for reforming the procurement policies and practices of the City of Chicago and six ...
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