CLARK CO, IL. (ECWd) - The Clark County Park District board appointed Lisa Thomas as Park Commissioner at its last meeting, and at tonight's meeting she took her Oath of Office and her seat at the table. Tonight's agenda includes interviewing applicants for Park Executive Director position. Park...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Gary Strohm, Marshall Advocate, printed a piece of misinformation (unsubstantiated rumor) while bidding Terry Stepp goodbye from the Clark County Park District. He claimed that "According to his [Stepp's] best estimate" the district received FOIA requests for 55,000 pages of information at a...
BENTON, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has issued a binding opinion, number 17-007, stating that the City of Benton, Illinois is responsible for fulfilling Freedom of Information Act requests for public records kept by the municipal airport board. In reading this opinion,...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Paris, Oliver, Grandview, and Kansas Fire Departments were called to a fire involving stored large round bales of hay - about 4 miles west of Paris on route 16. It started around 2:45 this afternoon and appears to be under control. Videos below: . . ...
CHICAGO, IL. (ECWd) - Today, a Grand Jury sent a True Bill of Indictment on three Chicago Police Officers in the killing of Laquan McDonald. In the Indictment, the Grand Jury alleges that David March, Joseph Walsh, and Thomas Gaffney committed: official misconduct obstruction of justice conspiracy...
TERRE HAUTE, IN. (ECWd) - [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="184"] J.D. Kesler (right)[/caption] Jerome D. "JD" Kesler appeared in Vigo County Court his morning on two felony charges of voting outside the precinct of where he lived - what some would refer to as voter fraud. It is alleged...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Update: 6-26-20017 - The responding "SWAT" was the "Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System Special Response Team" ("ILEAS") based in Urbana, Illinois. Paris Police Department called the SWAT team out to a West Van Buren residence earlier today. According to witnesses at the scene, the incident...
NAUVOO, IL. (ECWd) - A few days after we published a Press Release from opennauvoo.org about Nauvoo Councilwoman Beverly Reynolds and her unflattering comments about "tar and feathers" on "people like this" and her apparent references to the 1840s murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith and...
DuPage County, IL. (ECWd) - The College of DuPage Foundation has released the Federal Grand Jury Subpoena which was the subject of an Appellate Court decision on A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought against the College of DuPage and its foundation by the Chicago Tribune. It...
TERRE HAUTE, IN. (ECWd) - Jerome "J.D." Kesler, Vigo County Indiana Emergency Management Agency ("EMA") Deputy Director, Vigo County Sheriff Special Deputy and former Edgar County Airport Board Member was arrested and charged this morning in Vigo County, Indiana. Kessler was arrested and charged with two Felony counts of...
