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Citizens Gather for Watchdog Training Session Hosted by BGA

Chicago Talks, July 29, 2010

A news report from Lorraine Swanson, Lake Effect News

There’s a stiff sea breeze blowing across the Land of Lincoln from an auditorium at Loyola University off the shore of Lake Michigan on a day when former-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s balls suddenly receded up into his underpants.

About a hundred, average, everyday folks from across the Chicago region gathered last Tuesday at the Quinlan Life Sciences Building in Rogers Park for the first of two Citizen Watchdog training sessions hosted by the Better Government Association.

You’ve seen them: those pesky dissident neighbors who sit in the back of the room at village board meetings, the local school council, or the community town hall, asking the hard questions that make local politicians and other muckety-mucks squirm.

To continue reading click here to be directed to Lake Effect News.

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