MORE FINANCIAL SHENANIGANS IN ILLINOIS (Part III)

In Parts I and II, we have summarized the history of the failed Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI) program initiated by Governor Patrick Quinn in the fall of 2010. In Part I we began to recount the key findings from a report on the NRI by the Illinois Auditor General, William Holland (D). In this article, we will complete our look at the audit and the NRI. Audit Findings (Continued) With regard to the targeting of the most “at-risk” neighborhoods, Barbara Shaw, the former director of IVPA, asserts that target communities were chosen on the basis of an analysis by the Department of Human Services (DHS) Unfortunately, neither the IVPA nor the DHS have been able to locate that analysis.[1]...