Closed meetings

In 1972, a group of community activists in south suburban Blue Island joined the Independent Precinct Organization (IPO). They complained that the folks who ran local government in their town held closed meetings and they needed IPO to help them change that.

The problem was eventually solved with passage of the Open Meetings Act and the Blue Island activists no longer had to make the trek to IPO’s north side Chicago office to meet.

Note: There was briefly a 34th ward IPO that campaigned for Indepenent candidates in an adjacent city neighborhood, but that group, too, found it difficult to travel to the north side for meetings.