Reports

The Ethics Reform Task Force, established December 2011 by Mayor Emanuel, was tasked to consider improvements to the existing ethics ordinances in three areas: regulation, prevention and education, and investigations and enforcement. In Part II of its report, the task force outlined the role of a Legislative Inspector General and enhanced whiteblower protections.

Civic Consulting Alliance helped the City of Chicago draft this Youth Violence Prevention Plan, outlining the City's ongoing and planned initiatives to stop youth violence through Prevention, Intervention, and Response. The plan was presented to the Department of Justice, other federal agencies, and peer cities at the Second Annual Summit on Preventing Youth Violence in Washington, D.C. on April 2nd, 2012

In March 2011, the Joint Committee on City County Collaboration issued this first quarterly report on the status of collaboration between the City of Chicago and Cook County. In the first quarter, an estimated $11 million was saved for the 2012 budgets of both governments, and services were improved in many areas.

At the 100-day mark of his administration, Mayor Rahm Emanuel released this progress report on his Transition Plan. Many of the accomplishments reported were achieved with the support of Civic Consulting Alliance and our partners.

On May 11, Mayor Daley released this report, showing that a successful technology park developed on the Michael Reese site--approximately 37 acres of mostly vacant land on the city's South Side--could create as many as 20,000 - 25,000 jobs across the region when fully developed. The report is the work of an advisory panel named to assess the future use of the site, which is located between 26th and 31st streets and between Martin Luther King Drive and Lake Shore Drive.

Over a period of two and a half months, Mayor-elect Emanuel's transition team and 15 Civic Consulting Alliance partners conducted a review of the City's priorities and developed proposals for improvement. The final product of this work, the Chicago 2011 Transition Report, was published on May 10th, 2011. The report contains more than 50 ideas that the administration will launch immediately, as well as ideas for the term that will position Chicago for the next 40 years.

At the request of President-elect of the Cook County Board Toni Preckwinkle, a team from Accenture, PeopleScout, SNR Denton and Civic Consulting Alliance worked with the President-elect's team to identify strategic, 100-day, and first term priorities for the new administration, which are published in this report.

In 2007, Mayor Richard M. Daley named the 21st Century Commission to advise him on the direction Chicago’s City government should take to meet the changing needs of the city, its residents, and its businesses in the decades ahead. The Commission developed 64 recommendations for how City could change services and delivered them in this final 141-page report. The recommendations focus on areas such as the consolidation of departments for better efficiency, automation of the back end of resident services, and improvement of citywide technology. In addition to these recommendations, the Commission also laid out an explicit vision for the future of the City of Chicago’s government structure.

In this article, the authors propose a framework for analyzing the outcomes from community college programs as a starting point for a larger discussion on the optimal distribution of resources across the multiple missions of community colleges.