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DESCRIPTION:ASP Chicago Presents:Public Corruption and Business’ Bottom Lin
 e\nPresenter  David Greising\, President & CEO of Better Government Associ
 ation (BGA)\nThrough the lens of the Better Government Association -- curr
 ently keeping score of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s ethics record and pushing fo
 r reform in Springfield--questions arise as to whether intent and actions 
 can put a dent in corruption\, create real reform\, and tackle murky finan
 ces in Chicago and Illinois. The stakes for business are higher than ever.
  \nAbout the Presenter: David Greising  President and CEO of BGA\nDavid Gr
 eising is the President and CEO of the Better Government Association. Sinc
 e joining the organization in March of 2018\, he has led the BGA in its mi
 ssion of investigative journalism\, policy advocacy and civic engagement a
 ctivity to hold government accountable in the state of Illinois.\nUnder Gr
 eising’s leadership\, the BGA has published in-depth investigations into A
 ld. Ed Burke’s conflicts of interest\, the history of corrupt and wasteful
  contracting at O’Hare and the proliferation of public corruption and pove
 rty in Dalton\, Lyons and other Chicago suburbs. The BGA’s policy team has
  led a push for ethics reform in Chicago’s City Council\, and the BGA has 
 secured access to the emails of Chicago mayors and won numerous court ruli
 ngs and legislative actions that expand access to public records. \nPrior 
 to the BGA\, Greising’s career took him from the City News Bureau of Chica
 go to the Chicago Sun-Times\, Business Week magazine\, the Chicago Tribune
 \, Chicago News Cooperative and Reuters. He also served for a year as stra
 tegic consultant to World Business Chicago\, a public-private economic dev
 elopment agency. He is a graduate of DePauw University.\nGreising has repo
 rted from five continents\, wrote a business column for the Tribune\, and 
 wrote the business plan and was managing editor for the Chicago News Coope
 rative\, a nonprofit journalism startup. Today\, Greising writes on govern
 ment accountability issues in regular columns for the Tribune and Crain’s 
 Chicago Business and is a featured guest on television and radio stations 
 across Illinois.\nFor questions\, contact: \n\n\n\nJennie Benjaminsjennie@
 strategyassociation.org1-844-345-2828 ext 229\n\n\n\nRegister through ASP
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LOCATION:Mid America Club\, 80th Floor\, 200 E Randolph St\, Chicago\, IL 6
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SUMMARY:ASP Chicago Presents: Public Corruption and Business’ Bottom Line
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