Bolingbrook installed a new police chief in 2020, a first for the village. That was the same year the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the year protests were held over the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
But within a couple years, as the pandemic eased and community-police tension subsided, Bolingbrook Police Chief Mike Rompa started using his village purchasing card – known as a p-card – in a different way than others with the same cards.
That caught the attention of an anonymous tipster who reached out to CBS News Chicago in late January 2026…