Limestone Twp, Kankakee Co. - (ECWd) - "I was told," "they said," "everyone I talked to," and the most common response, "it's always been done that way," is what we routinely hear when actions of public officials are questioned. During the recent Limestone Township meeting the Highway...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (ECWd) -- The Orland Park Public Library apparently manipulated its email server somehow to block a recent Freedom of Information Act request from this author, made on August 4th, 2017 for documents related to what appears to be possible violations of the Illinois...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Watchdogs and the Illinois Policy Institute have submitted a joint friend-of-the-court brief, Amici Curiae, to the Supreme Court of Illinois in the case of Institute For Justice v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The joint brief urges...
Jasper Co. (ECWd) - Doing things the way you have always done them tends to be the biggest problem we see with public bodies, and it appears Jasper County is not much different than any of the other counties we have looked at. More often than...
LOGAN CO., IL (ECWd) - In the business of government, elected officials and certain others in decision-making positions are required to file true and accurate Statements of Economic Interest for each and every year, and file them with the County Clerk of the county they are...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS -(ECWd) - For several weeks now, the Orland Park Public Library has been refusing to produce a receipt showing what was ordered and how many people ate (or drank) at a Chicago Chinatown restaurant named Lao Sze Chuan. The Library's story is that...
[caption id="attachment_38086" align="alignnone" width="224"] Plaque allegedly presented to Paul McCartney by Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg on July 26th, 2017 before his concert at Hollywood amphitheater.[/caption] TINLEY PARK, IL (ECWd) - As an update to an earlier report on Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg's alcohol-fuelled public spectacle...
Logan Co. (ECWd) - The Atlanta Public Library appears to have a few problems percolating as it relates to conflicts of interests with board member William Thomas, whom the library pays rent to. Now we find false information contained in the annual financial reporting to the...
ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - The Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Public Library District have failed to fill a vacant trustee seat for several months. the vacancy originally occurred when Anne Heironymus resigned and her resignation accepted at the March 10, 2016 meeting - she said...
[caption id="attachment_38047" align="alignnone" width="338"] (Tinley Park Mayor Jacob "Jake" Vandenberg, in Hawaiian print shirt on the far right. One of the Village's attorneys, Patrick Connelly of the firm Peterson Johnson Murray, is pictured just to the left of the unidentified man in blue in the...
