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Question of the day
Wednesday, Nov 20, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller * The backstory here is that @ChicagoBars has been deluged with tweets saying he’s wrong about what state law says about kids sitting at bars…
* This suggestion is just too good to pass up…
Have fun.
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- A Well-Regulated Commenter - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:25 am:
Department of Adults Mistreating Kids for Their Own Convenience
- Cheryl44 - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:26 am:
Department of Redundancy Department
- Angry Republican - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:26 am:
Department of fully funded pensions
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:27 am:
The Department of Managing Department Emergencies.
- Birdseed - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:28 am:
Department of Electronic Surveillance
- CookR - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:28 am:
Office of the Legislative Inspector General
- NIU Grad - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:28 am:
Department of Buzzwords and Inflated Promises…Oh wait, they already made DoIT.
- Nick Name - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:30 am:
The Illinois Department of Flight Line and Fallopian Tubing.
- Rich Miller - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:30 am:
CookR, I just about spit out my coffee after reading your comment. Hilarious (exclamation point).
- A guy - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:30 am:
Department of Special Elections for Legislative Vacancies.
- Steve Rogers - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:32 am:
Department of New Illinois
- Skeptic - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:32 am:
The Department of Kicking the Can Down the Road
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:34 am:
Department of Alien Encounters
- Anon For Now - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:35 am:
Department for Helping Unguided Governors (DHUG). less necessary now.
- Just Another Anon - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:36 am:
Came here to post OLIG but Cook beat me to the punch. My runner up is Department of Metaphor, Wimsey and Caprice.
- Wensicia - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:36 am:
Department of the Eastern Bloc
- Angry Republican - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:41 am:
Illinois Department of Unusable Neolgism Network Operations or IDUNNO
- Thomas Paine - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:42 am:
Illinois Office of the Architect of the Capitol,
Bureau of Drawers
- An_Illinois_Man - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:43 am:
The Futility Department
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:44 am:
Office of State Separation and Secession
- muon - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:44 am:
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs since a major grocery chain thinks it exists.
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:45 am:
Department of Confederate Veterans Affairs
- pipersls - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:45 am:
Department of Legislative Ethics Enforcement
- R A T - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:47 am:
Department of Saving Money for a Rainy Day Funds
- An_Illinois_Man - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:48 am:
The Department of Omissions
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:49 am:
The Bureau of Hiding Sensitive Materials in Random Drawers.
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:50 am:
The Office of Emergency Concealment Operations.
- efudd - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:52 am:
Department of Instructing Downstate Illinoisans of the Financial Dependency on Cook County
- Oswego Willy - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:52 am:
Department of Land Voting
- zatoichi - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:53 am:
Department of Cannabis ….. I forgot the rest.
- Not again - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:54 am:
The Bureau for Better Breaux
- Keyrock - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 9:56 am:
Independent Redistricting Commission.
- Earnest - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:02 am:
Department of Non-Magical Thinking about the Pension Debt.
OT: I spend many happy hours next to my dad on a bar stool growing up, though when I could get a quarter out of him I was over playing the Evel Knievel pinball machine.
- {Sigh} - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:06 am:
I believe this falls under legislative support services:
Legislative Bureau of ComEd (Commerce and Economic Development). The Bureau is responsible for issuing Job Creation Notes and Fiscal Notes on all matters pending before the Illinois General Assembly.
- Steve Rogers - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:09 am:
Office of Scientific Intelligence, but only if Oscar Goldman is named Director.
- Rabid - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:11 am:
Citizens utility board
- Rabid - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:13 am:
Ministry of silly walks
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:13 am:
The Department of Racketeering Activity.
- SpfdNewb - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:15 am:
-Ministry of silly walks-
Illinois appropriate, Ministry of Perp Walks
- Drake Mallard - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:22 am:
Management of central management agency
- perrier - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:24 am:
Department of Toddler Bar-Sitting Prohibition Enforcement
Mariano’s should’ve swung for the fences and went with this.
- Just Me 2 - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:29 am:
I’d like the corruption office that Lisa Madigan said she would create when she ran in 2002, then promptly forgot about once she was in office.
I can’t imagine why Lisa MADIGAN suddenly lost interest in her big campaign promise.
- Estubborn - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:30 am:
Illinois Department of Funk and Groove
- Strategy Geek - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:34 am:
Dept. of Phantom Little Old Democratic Ladies Telling Rauner to Stay Strong.
- Morningstar - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 10:59 am:
Department of Governors Paroles
- 47th Ward - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 11:04 am:
Illinois Department of Tribune Editorial Corrections.
- Northsider - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 11:14 am:
CookR @ 9:28 wins the internet today, but…
The Department of Putting Things on Top of Other Things.
- revvedup - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 11:42 am:
IL Department of Corruption.
A “wink, wink, nudge,nudge to Northsider at 11:14 am.
- Rabid - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 11:45 am:
Department of task forces and blue ribbon commissions
- RIJ - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 11:56 am:
The Illinois Department of Departments Under Illinois Departmental Departments in Illinois
- former state employee - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 12:11 pm:
Back in the day, when frustrated with issues at the office, my friend and I used to entertain ourselves by staffing a fictitious “Bureau/Division of Fools”
I guess now, at times, it may deserve to be elevated to a full agency
- ike - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 12:26 pm:
IL department of Downstate Complaints about Cook County.
- Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 12:28 pm:
Bureau of Acronyms Developed to Bolster Ill-advised Legislation
- PublicServant - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 12:30 pm:
The Department of Redundancy Department
- PublicServant - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 12:31 pm:
Doh! Sorry for the redundant comment, Cheryl.
- NWL Grad - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 12:38 pm:
Legislative Ethics Commission
- Chief of Staff - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 1:24 pm:
Office of State Senator Jason Plummer
- DuPage - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 1:32 pm:
Department of Property Tax Assessment being based on what the property sold for plus actual inflation, not on what a new luxury property down the street cost.
- Ron Burgundy - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 1:44 pm:
The Office for the Regulation of Current and Former Legislators
- theCardinal - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 1:56 pm:
The Dept of Revenue Protection and Child Custody Benefits and Services.
- thechampaignlife - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 2:06 pm:
Joint Commission on Marijuana Policy
- thechampaignlife - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 2:34 pm:
There are too many great candidates:
Illinois Bureau of Division and Redirection
State Patronage Commission
Freedom from Information Counselor
Pension Demerit Board
Property Tax and Toilet Relief Task Force
Illinois Board of Higher Ed (cannabis policy chaired by a guy named Ed)
State Bored of Education
Illinois Ego Control Board
Historic Legislation Agency
Illinois State Fare
Illinois Art of Fiscal Notes Council
Office of Migration and Flight
- VerySmallRocks - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 2:44 pm:
I’ll just stick with a slogan or motto a la Mao Zedong “ Let a thousand barflies bloom”.
- Enviro - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 2:44 pm:
Department of Income Inequality
- Boone's is Back - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 2:47 pm:
The Department of Making the Will of the People the Law of the Land. Pat Quinn has already submitted his nomination for Director.
- papak - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 3:00 pm:
Department of mysteries, somewhere in there is the solution to the pension problem
- PsyOps - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 3:07 pm:
Illinois Department of Nobody No One Sent
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 3:14 pm:
The Illinois Department of Property Tax Lawyers.
- Whatever - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 3:29 pm:
The Illinois Department for Potholes (and, no, it’s function is not to fix them).
- Nameless - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 3:45 pm:
Department of Social Responsibility
- The Young Gov - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 4:00 pm:
The Department of shiny new objects and nuclear events.
- In_The_Middle - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 4:59 pm:
The Illinois Department of Outflow
- Huh? - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 6:33 pm:
The department of politicians tell no lies.
- ChicagoBars - Wednesday, Nov 20, 19 @ 11:02 pm:
Tickled so many people ran with this.
FWIW 3D Checker’s “The Department of Managing Department Emergencies” and the OLIG suggestions both made me lol. Cheers everyone.
And keep your eyes out for the Illinois Department of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs holiday party later next month. At an undisclosed location TBA just a long waterslide away from the Thompson Center.