Joliet Township (ECWd) - As you listen to this recording of the Joliet Township Board of Trustees Executive (Closed) Session of the June 11, 2019 meeting, remember these things: Road District employees are not Township employees and cannot be discussed in the Township Board closed session ...
Vermilion County, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has determined that the Vermilion County Airport Authority Board of Commissioners violated the Open Meetings Act on June 19, 2018 when it failed to give proper notice to the public of an item voted...
U.S. (ECWd) - SCOTUS is hearing a major public corruption case, aka "Bridgegate" on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 which could impact future public corruptions cases nationwide, including those in Illinois. This case appears to center around a public official's concealment of a political act (a stated public...
Vermilion, IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Sheriff's Department served a warrant on former Vermilion (Paris Fire Protection District) Fireman Dale Colter, who was arrested at 8:40 a.m. on January 6, 2020, and charged with Felony Theft of between $10k and $100k. According to Court records, it...
Kankakee, IL. (ECWd) - Earlier last year, the City of Kankakee appointed its City Comptroller to the Kankakee River Metropolitan Agency Board - the appointment comes with a $600 per month paycheck. We have previously written about the inappropriate appointments to the KRMA (read about them here). The...
JOLIET TOWNSHIP (ECWd) - We don't know what was going through his head when he made the following comments, but it appears he doesn't think women can work as good as men can work. When talking about moving cat cages at the Joliet Township Animal Control, Vera...
Mattoon, IL. (ECWd) - On December 20, 2019 at approximately 11:48 p.m., at Old State Road and 610 East, in Coles County, Mattoon Police Officer / School Resource Officer Michael Shane West, 47, was arrested by the Coles County Sheriff's Department for the allegations of Driving...
Joliet Twp. (ECWd) - A few weeks ago we published an article detailing how Joliet Township passed an improper Compensation Setting Ordinance for the Township Clerk back in 2016. Read it here. In that article, we laid out the timeline and statutory references to the fixing of...
DuPage County (ECWd) - This afternoon, the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor released a determination stating that DuPage County violated the Freedom of Information Act when it refused to provide W2s for certain elected officials of the county. Those W2s were originally requested in May of 2016,...
Edgar County (ECWd) - A few weeks ago we published an article alleging theft of public funds by a member of the Vermilion, IL (Edgar County) Fire Department, Paris Community Fire Protection District. We understand the investigation is still ongoing (not completed yet) and is being handled...
