SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Pay attention Carlinville: Last Friday, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor determined that the McHenry County Blog was "news media" as that term is defined in the Freedom of Information Act. McHenry County decided that FOIA requester Cal Skinner, McHenry County Blog, was a recurrent...
WHITESIDE CO., IL. (ECWd) - We attended the Whiteside County Airport Board meeting last night, April 13, 2017, and a citizen beat me to the questions. A citizen asked about the board's decision to declare something that was obviously not an emergency, as an emergency so they...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Once again, the City of Carlinville has denied a Freedom of Information Act request for public records. Their attorney is sure to enjoy the extra income generated by their refusal to obey the law - and make Carlinville taxpayers pay for it. In an...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General has sent the City of Carlinville letters of inquiry in response to several requests for review of alleged Freedom of Information Act violations that I forwarded to the AG's Public Access Counselor ("PAC"). These letters require the public body to respond...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The College of DuPage, Village of Glen Ellyn, and the DuPage County Board all agreed that Glen Ellyn would once again take responsibility for building, liquor, and zoning inspections of the COD campus. According to the agreement, it states that "after June 30,...
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NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, DEKALB, IL. (ECWd) - The Office of the Executive Inspector General ("OEIG") investigation of Northern Illinois University ("NIU") and its President, Douglas Baker, may have been wrapped up after more than 18 months - but the college is still paying legal fees, month after month, with no apparent...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Well, well, well...
WHEELING, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has issued a determination stating that the Wheeling City Council violated the Open Meetings Act on  November 21, 2016 when it failed to follow its own written policy on public comment, which resulted in preventing a speaker from...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Wow, Clark County, this is what you voted for. Own it. We knew reality would eventually set in when he realized he no longer had control over anything at the long-embattled Clark County Park District, but he couldn't even take a congratulations from...
