Jake Sheridan – Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — Chicago doled out $26.5 million in overtime in recent years to government employees who should not have gotten it, according to a report released Wednesday by the city’s Inspector General.
Over 1,000 likely ineligible employees received the extra pay from 2020 to 2024, according to the report by Inspector General Deborah Witzburg. The payouts were not “nefarious or stealing,” but mistakes akin to “a series of spreadsheet errors,” Witzburg told the Chicago Tribune…