Unsung heroes ferret out corruption

It was refreshing, indeed, that it took only one single day for DuPage County Board Chairman Dan Cronin to begin cleaning house in the ethically and operationally challenged DuPage County Election Commission, after accounting firm Crowe Horwath LLC’s investigation was published.

Alas, a number of good, civic minded DuPage residents have doggedly spent over a thousand days providing DuPage public officials and local media with essentially the same information publicly revealed this week.

Previously uncovered corruption and mismanagement in county housing and water agencies tells us that these kind of shenanigans flourish when elected officials and the Fourth Estate fail to pay attention to these unpaid and unsung heroes of good local government. We all owe them our thanks.

Walt Zlotow

Glen Ellyn