WILL CO. (ECWd) - The Will County Officers Electoral Board held its first meeting of this election cycle earlier this week. Another meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, June 11, 2020. The Board members were announced as: County Clerk Treasurer Deputy Sheriff The problem with these Board members,...
Joliet, IL. (ECWd) - The Will County Electoral Board held a hearing today to hear a petition objection to the candidacy of a State's Attorney Candidate. The meeting was live-streamed by us (video below). Some of the issues with this meeting, which we hope will be corrected during...
Bellmont, IL. (ECWd) - We attended a court hearing in Wabash County last Thursday in the matter of a Motion of Sanctions and attorney fees filed against Bellmont Mayor Gary Lance for his performance during his several attempts at obtaining Restraining Orders against people for posting...
Will Co. (ECWd) - In April we wrote an article detailing the illegal compensation received by Channahon Park District Commissioners (article here). Earlier this week we were notified that the Park District had changed its policy, removing free golf passes for Commissioners. Seven days after our April 13,...
CHAMPAIGN, IL. (ECWd) - Shamar Betts - the person we wrote about who appeared to be inciting riots and looting in Champaign on his Facebook posts a few hours prior to the actual riot/looting in Champaign, was arrested by the United States Marshals Service in Mississippi...
United States Attorney John C. Milhiser Central District of Illinois Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former Urbana University High School Teacher, Girls’ Cross Country Coach on Child Pornography Charges: URBANA, Ill. – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment that charges a former physical education teacher at Urbana’s...
WESLEY Twp. (ECWd) - The Former Wesley Township Clerk, Sarah Norton, appointed to the position in July of 2018 and resigned in Aug 2019, has signed an Affidavit acknowledging what we knew all along; that the FOIA denials were willful and intentional, and that her father...
CHICAGO, IL. (ECWd) - Mr. Marcus D. Fruchter, Illinois Gaming Board was sent a Cease and Desist letter from Thomas DeVore, attorney for "Poopy's Pub and Grub" in response to a "Warning Notice" (see page 3 of the letter) sent to the business. The Cease and Desists...
Effingham Co. (ECWd) - The Village of Montrose, Illinois has a recent history of intimidating people wanting to attend village meetings. April 2020: Village attempts to keep people from attending the meeting. There were only 8 people in the meeting room, and they refused another person...
PRESS RELEASE from the LIBERTY JUSTICE CENTER MEDIA CONTACT:  Kristen Williamson, 773-809-4403 [email protected] Salem Media, veteran journalist Amy Jacobson sue Illinois governor over exclusion from press briefings Amy Jacobson, a journalist for Salem’s AM 560 The Answer in Chicago, broke news that the governor’s family had traveled to Wisconsin...
