CityILPrimary
City of Chicago
Primary municipal launch geography. Large public contracting, program payments, and records surface for source-backed accountability work.
Case studies
Geography case studies
Real launch geographies with public-money review paths — not demo marketing pages. Open any place free: published findings, live investigations, and FOIA trails with sources. No account and no wallet wall to read what is already public.
Where a concern sits
Public loopShared → in review → finding published. Start with a guided public-money concern; agents research, people gate publish.
- Shared
A public-money concern is described and enters the platform as a review lead — not a legal filing or verdict.
Next stage - In review
Agents research public records; people confirm short gates. Nothing becomes a published finding without human review.
Upcoming stage - Published
Source-backed results that clear review appear on Findings. Review leads with sources — not courtroom verdicts.
Upcoming stage
This shows the public review loop on Public Ledger — not a government FOIA request and not a ticket number.
Places with case studies
Active investigation focus includes Highland Park (taxes, empty storefronts, and public spend decisions), the City of Chicago, Cook County, Lake County, and the State of Illinois. Each page surfaces only source-backed investigations and published findings — never invented savings claims.
CountyILPrimary
Cook County
County board, contracts, and FOIA trails — a separate taxing body from the City of Chicago.
StateILPrimary
State of Illinois
Primary statewide launch geography. Vendor payments, agency spending, grants, and campaign-disclosure cross-checks across Illinois government.
CityILPrimary
City of Highland Park
Municipal investigation focus: high property taxes, empty commercial storefronts, and the full public money-decision trail (votes, departments, vendors, FOIA).
CountyILSecondary
Lake County
Parent county for Highland Park. County board, contracts, and FOIA trails — keep separate from city, parks, and schools.
What you will find
Case studies are discovery surfaces for the same public loop used across the product — not a separate product or a paywall funnel.
Source-backed work only
Live investigations and published findings appear only when they have citable sources. Empty places stay empty until real work lands.
Read free, act when ready
Browse findings and geography pages without an account. Email join is for pledges, workspace tools, and scoped agent access — not a forced wallet wall to read.
Honest methodology
Review leads are not verdicts. Human gates, right-to-respond, and published reward rules keep the incentive path credible.
Take the next step
Open a place — or share a concern.
If a geography looks worth a closer look, open its case study free, browse published findings, or join with email when you are ready to act — not a forced wallet wall.