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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">FOR RELEASE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">:
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April 15, 2025 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">PRESS CONTACT</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">:
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Deanna Shoss, Communications, 773.478.8417 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk164083410"></a><a name="_Hlk171693252"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">OIG Releases
First Quarter 2025 Report, Documenting Ethics Ordinance Violations, Firearm in the Workplace, Return of More Than $50,000 in Improper Campaign Contributions<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published its Quarterly Report for the first quarter
of 2025, which summarizes concluded investigations, inquiries, intakes, and other operations of OIG, from January 1, 2025, through March 31, 2025. This report has been filed with City Council, as required by § 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago (MCC).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">OIG received 1,752 new intakes and concluded 33 investigations in the first quarter. Of OIG’s 280 active
misconduct investigations, 233 are into City employees; 20 into elected officials; 18 into contractors, subcontractors, and persons seeking contracts; and 7 into others, including members of the public who may have violated Ethics rules by offering improper
gifts to City actors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">“I was confirmed as Inspector General for the City of Chicago on April 27, 2022, and as we approach the fourth
year of this term, I am deeply proud of the work being done by OIG’s extraordinarily talented and committed staff,” said Deborah Witzburg, Inspector General for the City of Chicago. “I came into this job with three priorities for OIG: to prioritize work which
fosters public trust in government and pays down the deficit of legitimacy at which the City of Chicago operates with its residents, to engineer OIG for long-term stability and success, and to leverage interdisciplinary cooperation across our practice areas
to maximize our impact. I am pleased to see those priorities reflected in the work we have done in the first quarter of 2025, and which continues.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">The efforts reported this quarter include sustained administrative investigations in which OIG found that:
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">A Department of Streets and Sanitation employee carried their personal firearm into a City building and left it unattended in a bathroom;<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">A Chicago Police Department Lieutenant violated the Governmental Ethics Ordinance by failing to disclose an illegal interest in a City contract;<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">A supervisor at the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection verbally abused and harassed employees of a business that holds multiple
City licenses during an intoxicated altercation; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">A State of Illinois elected official improperly lobbied City officials for desired legislative outcomes on behalf of their clients, which included
a company that held an eight-figure contract with CPD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">Also reported in this quarter, OIG identified and effected the return of more than $50,000 in improper campaign contributions
to City officials, and issued advisories to the Mayor’s Office on the handling of gifts accepted on behalf of the City and to the Department of Water Management on public transparency around water main and sewer lines built too close together.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">Read the Report<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:black">Read the full report, released on April 15, 2025:
<a href="https://igchicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/OIG-Quarterly-Report-Q1-2025.pdf">
https://igchicago.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/OIG-Quarterly-Report-Q1-2025.pdf</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">Office of Inspector General</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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