Illinois Policy Institute Launches IllinoisOpenGov.org

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 2:09 PM

The Illinois Policy Institute has launched a new great spending transparency resource for the State of Illinois. 

IllinoisOpenGov.org is modeled after the the successful template developed by the Maine Heritage Policy Center and features a wealth of information.

While the Illinois state government's spending transparency portal ITAP (which stands for Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal) created earlier this year provides access to state employee salary information, as well as agency expenditure and contract information and information relating to corporate accountability and professional licenses, IPI's website goes further. In IPI's own words, IllinoisOpenGov.org does the following:

• Makes the details of state spending available in easy-to-use, downloadable, Excel or CSV file formats, allowing anyone to repurpose the data for their own study.
• Includes salary and benefit information for all Illinois government workers (as opposed to the state’s current site, which at this point does not include information on the legislature or benefits data).
• Provides information on payouts to retired state employees.
• Offers a blog with highlights posted regularly from the database.
• Features a forum for public conversation and offers the option for commenting on individual expense items.


Check out  this great new resource!

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