Clay Co., IL. (ECWd) - James and Kali Mainer have filed a lawsuit naming Dr. Ngozi Ezike as Director of Illinois Department of Public Health, and Dr. Carmen I. Ayala, as Director of the Illinois State Board of Education, seeking a Declaration that the health regulations...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - Earlier last week, during a routine examination of the State Board of Elections contributions database, I stumbled across a new Political Action Committee ("PAC") formed in May 2020, which had received $1,000.00 "donations" from 7 townships in DuPage County. The new PAC...
JOLIET, IL. (ECWd) - During today's hearing on John Norton's Motion to Vacate a Plenary No Stalking/No Contact Order against him (which according to a police report has broken), a briefing schedule was prepared, with a new court date of July 29, 2020, at 10:30 a.m. When...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Former Springfield (Sangamon County) Mass Transit District facilities manager, Aaron Beck, charged with three felony counts of official misconduct and three felony counts of theft of government property. We wrote about his termination from the district in September 2019 (read it here). We know...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - The Village of Orland Park has taken to banning people from its Twitter page, which is a direct violation of the United States Constitution and flies in the face of recent United States Appeals Court decisions on public officials and public...
Will County, IL. (ECWd) - During the fourth day of the Will County Officers Electoral Board Hearing, on June 22, 2020, the Board upheld the objection to the Republican State's Attorney Candidate and voted to not place the candidate's name on the ballot for the upcoming...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker exempted local governments from Executive Order number 38. This was the EO placing Illinois in Phase 3, dated May 29, 2020, which contains the following provisions: For individuals: practice social distancing wear face covering in public when unable to maintain six...
Madison Co., IL. (ECWd) - Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's Public Access Counselor Office has determined the Madison County Sheriff violated four sections of the Freedom of Information Act by improperly withholding records requested under the Act. On May 4, 2020, Mr. Dorman submitted a request to...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - After several months of work, including moving away from our previous hosting company and moving to Amazon Web Services with CloudFlare, we are launching a newly designed website this weekend. It should be fully operational by Monday morning, without any downtime. It will have...
Carlinville, IL. (ECWd) - A Circuit Judge in Carlinville, Illinois ruled against the City of Carlinville on 3 of 4 counts in their Motion to Dismiss the Brotze lawsuit filed several years ago challenging the city's legal authority to form a nonprofit company with a water...
