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Budget Mon Feb 13 2012
City Employee Expenses Are Now Public and Searchable
A list of city employee reimbursements was posted on the City's data portal over the weekend, accounting for more than $1 million that the city has spent on various employee expenses over the last 13 months.
There is certainly a wealth of useful information in this data. At first glance, one could find out how much the Police Department spent on Subway sandwiches ($708), how much employees were reimbursed for parking ($31,500. Parking is very expensive in Chicago) or how much the city paid to relocate police Superintendent Garry McCarthy to Chicago ($7,500).
The Chicago Data Portal features a wide variety of public data. Chicagoans can find out how much their alderman makes, whether the restaurant they frequent passed its last inspection and more.
