ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - Today, the determination letter from the Illinois Attorney General's office arrived stating that the Orland Park Public Library Board of Trustees (OPPL-BoT) violated the Open Meetings Act when they voted to "ratify and affirm" actions taken at an illegal special meeting...
VERMILION CO., IL. (ECWd) - Part of the agreement for the sale of the Vermilion County Nursing Home was to include a sewer hookup to the Village of Tilton sewer system. We reported on this here and here starting almost 9 months ago. This new sanitary sewer...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - When an agency is given tax payer money under the Governor's Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI) and Illinois Violence Prevention Authority (IVPA) it's done with obligations by those receiving the funds. It is also supposed to have oversight by those giving the money! In...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - On July 10 of this year, a person was in the library sitting down where others could see him. One person was shocked enough to call the police and report it. Here is what happened: Mary Weimar, Orland Park Public Library Director,...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Unauthorized Pay Raises This whole issue of unauthorized pay raises came about after a December 23, 2013 meeting where a pay raise was voted on and approved. According to the minutes, several council members commented that this was “out of cycle” for raises...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - The Orland Park Public Library held a personnel meeting today in which they want to give pay raises to library employees. Some of these employees are making far more than the average library pays in the surrounding area, the OPPL in...
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Board held its regular monthly meeting today, August 13, 2014, at the courthouse. There were several actions taken, among those were: -Roll Call: Dan Bruner was the only board member not in attendance - Sandra Willett (currently Clerk Pro Tempore) was appointed to...
NORTH HENDERSON, IL. (ECWd) - We attended the Village Trustee meeting 8-14-2014, in North Henderson, WQAD from the Quad Cities was also there and you can read their report with video here: from WQAD...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Police are reporting that the First Financial Bank was robbed this morning at around 11:00 a.m. by a man that did not even bother to disguise himself. More information at this link on Disclosure News Online (HERE). WAWV also has an article on this...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - Another sad chapter in Orland Park's history has started with the Illinois Attorney General filing suit to stop a townhomes association from instituting new rules that prohibit renting to black tenants. In previous articles we covered how the Orland Park Public Library's...
