People ex rel. Better Broadcasting Council, Inc. v. Keane

The plaintiffs, Better. Broadcasting Council, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, and Donald Wheat, a citizen and taxpayer of the City of Chicago, filed a petition for a writ of mandamus in the Circuit Court of Cook County, seeking to compel the defendants to permit the inspection of records in their custody. The defendants are: Thomas Keane, an aider-man of the City of . Chicago and Chairman of the Committee on Finance of the City Council; Paul T. Wigoda, an Alderman of the City of Chicago and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Miscellaneous Matters of the Committee on Finance; Charles Berek,…