DuPage Township, IL. (ECWd) - Today, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor issued a determination stating that the DuPage Township Board violated the Open Meetings Act during its February 15, 2019 Closed Session Meeting. In it's determination, the AG-PAC stated the following: DuPage Township did not...
Shelby Co. IL. (ECWd) - We exposed the illegal gun sales by the Shelby County Sheriff over a year ago, including proving that the accounting of the money did not balance with the public records. As we awaited action that never came from County Board members...
Wesley Township, IL. (ECWd) - Wesley Township used a forged and notarized affidavit in Court filings/proceedings while attempting to defend a Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") lawsuit. Yesterday, the former Wesley Township Clerk, Sarah Norton, appeared for a several hour Deposition related to an FOIA lawsuit brought...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - HB 3222, Synopsis As Introduced: "Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that any person who, prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act, lawfully possessed an assault weapon shall register the assault weapon with the Illinois State Police within 90 days...
DuPage Township, IL. (ECWd) - DuPage Township Supervisor Felix George, and Trustees Maripat Oliver and Ken Burgess, voted at their last township meeting to ignore IRS rules and state law as it relates to former Supervisor Mayer's W-2 tax form - obviously forgetting that no local...
Wesley Township, IL. (ECWd) - Former appointed, then lost the election, Wesley Township Road Commissioner John Norton has been ordered to appear in Court to answer Citations To Discover Assets related to the case he lost, and Judgments entered against him, when he sued Leonard McCubbin...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Two Illinois State Representatives, Camille Y. Lilly and Kelly M. Cassidy, sponsored House Bill 3913, which would permit child sex offenders to live as close as 250 feet from a school or playground - currently they must stay at least 500 feet...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - We first exposed what we called a police coverup in Bloomington in this article. From that first exposure and after it was brought to the Mayor's attention during public comment at a recent meeting, we had to publish several more articles to...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Bald Eagle visits ECWd this morning: ...
IL. (ECWd) - From the Illinois Times: Barks and bites Watchdogs prowl Illinois By Bruce Rushton This being Sunshine Week, when we celebrate the First Amendment and remember that democracy demands open government, we should know that danger lurks. "These people are working in a group together and therefore we can say...
