By Illinois Radio Network, includes “Illinois taxpayers should know by the end of the month, and every month going forward, how much debt state government agencies are accumulating, thanks to the Debt Transparency Act. … The new law doesn’t require the comptroller to report to taxpayers what agencies report to the comptroller, but Pallasch said Mendoza will post the numbers online. He said they’ll also push for a follow-up bill to require future comptrollers to do the same.” (Note: See this related October 2017 Bill’s Blog post, “What needs to be addressed in the Illinois Debt Transparency Act” ).