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Recent Posts

  • Plainfield Township – Time Card Thursday, Algonquin Township is not alone February 14, 2019
  • Algonquin Township Road District – Time Card Tuesday #2 – February 12, 2019
  • McHenry Court Quashes Algonquin Township’s attack on Media and First Amendment – February 11, 2019
  • Unredacted Closed Session Minutes of Algonquin Township’s Jan 9 Meeting – February 9, 2019
  • Video: What happens when a Township Supervisor resigns? February 7, 2019
  • DuPage Township – Quorum did not attend, Town Hall style meeting followed – February 6, 2019
  • Video: DeKalb Township’s Shaklee Business – February 6, 2019
  • Motion for Sanctions; Witness Tampering; filed against Jasper County School District #1 – February 6, 2019
  • AG: Wheeling council violated Open Meetings Act February 6, 2019
  • Time Card Tuesday – Algonquin Township Road District – Anna May Miller February 5, 2019

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Plainfield Township – Time Card Thursday, Algonquin Township is not alone

By Kirk Allen on February 14, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Will Co. (ECWd) – Our work of exposing local government malfeasance has many facets.  While any particular article may be focused on a specific unit of government, one facet commonly overlooked is […]

Algonquin Township Road District – Time Card Tuesday #2 –

By Kirk Allen on February 12, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – It’s time for Time Card Tuesday once again.  This article will begin with the first two time cards we have for Anna May Miller, former employee of the […]

McHenry Court Quashes Algonquin Township’s attack on Media and First Amendment –

By jmkraft on February 11, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP (ECWd) – UPDATE: Copy of Court Order inserted at end of article. Today, the McHenry County Circuit Court granted our Emergency Motion To Quash a subpoena from Algonquin Township directed […]

Unredacted Closed Session Minutes of Algonquin Township’s Jan 9 Meeting –

By jmkraft on February 9, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP (ECWd) – Below are the unredacted Closed Session Minutes of the January 9, 2019 meeting of the Algonquin Township Board. The Board had previously released a redacted version, but this […]

Video: What happens when a Township Supervisor resigns?

By jmkraft on February 7, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) – We made a short video explaining what happens when a Township Supervisor resigns. It is a fairly straight-forward process, once you understand that the Township Code, the Open […]

DuPage Township – Quorum did not attend, Town Hall style meeting followed –

By jmkraft on February 6, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) – View the video from February 4, 2019 below. There was a meeting of the DuPage Township Board called for Feb 4th, Trustees Maripat Oliver and Ken Burgess decided […]

Video: DeKalb Township’s Shaklee Business –

By jmkraft on February 6, 2019 • ( 10 Comments )

DeKalb Township (ECWd) – In April 2015 the DeKalb Township Supervisor announced a new program he was running thru General Assistance, and it dealt with the township becoming an independent agent of […]

Motion for Sanctions; Witness Tampering; filed against Jasper County School District #1 –

By jmkraft on February 6, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) – The Jasper County Community School District No. 1 has received a Motion for Sanctions against it alleging one of its employees committed witness tampering by threatening and intimidating […]

AG: Wheeling council violated Open Meetings Act

By jmkraft on February 6, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

WHEELING, IL. (ECWd) – The Illinois Attorney General has determined that the Village of Wheeling violated the Open Meetings Act during its September 5, 2017 public meeting. According to the written determination, […]

Time Card Tuesday – Algonquin Township Road District – Anna May Miller

By Kirk Allen on February 5, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Considering it is a Tuesday and the time card reviewed today has a great big red flag for the April 4th, 2017 date, which is a Tuesday, we present […]

Algonquin Township Road District – Anna May Miller – time for no time recorded..and then some

By Kirk Allen on February 3, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Recent exposure of Anna May Miller’s political work from public computers and the fuzzy math time cards has raised more questions than we can keep up with.  Miller was […]

IL Sen Melinda Bush wants more government secrecy –

By jmkraft on February 3, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) – Illinois Senator Melinda Bush, (D) 31st District, apparently thinks more government secrets are better. Bush filed Senate Bill 0196 on January 30, 2019. This Bill would permit a […]

DuPage Township Supervisor resigned; who signs checks?

By jmkraft on February 2, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

DuPage Township (ECWd) – Q: When Township Supervisor resigns, who signs checks? A:  Nobody. (is the short answer) Q: Then how do the township bills and payroll get paid? A: They don’t […]

Algonquin Township Road District – Anna May Miller -political work….from work

By Kirk Allen on February 2, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Records recovered from a hard drive of the Road District reflect Anna May Miller, a former employee of the Road District and wife of the former Highway Commissioner […]

Algonquin Township & Road District – Legal Bills

By Kirk Allen on January 31, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Legal bills in the Township of Algonquin and its Road District have been a point of interest to residents and the local paper. In fact, today a comment […]

Algonquin Township Road District Time Card – Fuzzy math?

By Kirk Allen on January 30, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Basic Math – 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 1+3=4, etc.  According to the policy manual, the following apply to pay: if a person is “required” to work on a Holiday, they […]

DuPage Township Clerk ignored her duties

By Kirk Allen on January 30, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

Will Co. (ECWd) – It appears the recently appointed Township Clerk, Kulsum Ali, does not understand her duties as Clerk and ignored proper requests for a meeting by two trustees while honoring […]

DuPage Twp Trustees walk out; refuse to participate in felony crime

By jmkraft on January 30, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )

BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) – During the DuPage Township meeting last night, an agenda item for appointment of Trustee Burgess was a point of contention with the four trustees. Not for appointing him, […]

DuPage Township meeting; crime in progress?

By jmkraft on January 29, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

DuPage Township (ECWd) – We have reviewed a copy of the DuPage Township meeting agenda for the special meeting scheduled for January 29, 2019. Among the items on the Agenda are: Accept […]

Algonquin Township – Anna May Miller – Vacation-gate

By Kirk Allen on January 29, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Anna May Miller began working at the Township Road District for her husband in August of 1998 according to records obtained from the Road District. August of 2013 […]

Algonquin Township- Attorney Kelly legal billing points to political research for Melissa Victor

By jmkraft on January 29, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Algonquin Township (ECWd) – When Algonquin Township Trustee Melissa Victor was contemplating taking an open position for another public body, she asked the Township Attorney for advice on any conflict of interest […]

Algonquin Township attempts censoring Watchdogs –

By jmkraft on January 28, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Algonquin Township, IL (ECWd) – When the rights of the people to petition their government for redress are met with fierce opposition by the very institutions whose livelihood is dependent upon that […]

Algonquin Township – Anna May Miller and travel-gate

By Kirk Allen on January 28, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Over fifty Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to Algonquin Township & Road District from the local paper and not a single request for records pertaining to Bob Miller, […]

Algonquin Twp Trustee – Intimidation by withholding official action?

By jmkraft on January 27, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

ALGONQUIN TWP (ECWd) – Is Trustee Victor intimidating Gasser using threats of police action and the withholding of official action? According to the executive session minutes of a recent special meeting, the […]

Algonquin Township Attorney James Kelly put on notice – Sanctions to be sought

By Kirk Allen on January 25, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Paper trails are like bread crumbs and while the birds may have eaten most of them during this cold snap,(or was it a rag that wiped the computer […]

Algonquin Township – Mosquito-gate – the gotcha game backfire

By Kirk Allen on January 24, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – As the three-ring circus continues in Algonquin Township, a recent gotcha attempt appears to have backfired for the person raising the issues, but has resulted in positive steps for […]

Algonquin Township Road District – Bob Miller – Phone Gate

By Kirk Allen on January 23, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – It appears from the records, the former Algonquin Township Road District Highway Commissioner Bob Miller was a busy man just prior to departing office. Records reflect there was […]

Plainfield Township; $69,951.80 in self dealing – Investigations continue

By Kirk Allen on January 20, 2019 • ( 7 Comments )

Will Co. (ECWd) – Over the past 2 years, we have written about numerous townships and exposed more self-dealing than I thought was possible, and it appears, Plainfield Township is not much […]

Algonquin Township Road District vs. Union 150 – Court Transcript- the truth

By Kirk Allen on January 19, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – As promised, the transcript of the recent Union 150 case against the Algonquin Township Road district has arrived and available for download at this link or viewed below. […]

Northwest Herald – Communication brings clarity

By Kirk Allen on January 19, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – Recent communications with Jon Styf have brought clarity on some issues and considering he said: “feel free to correct your error”, let the clarity begin. It all started […]

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