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May 9, 2025

Author: John Kraft & Kirk Allen

WHEELING, IL. (ECWd) - During this evening's Wheeling Village Trustee meeting, Mayor Horcher issued a Proclamation in support of the Constitution of the United States of America and celebration of Constitution Week. Yes! He advised "all citizens to reflect on all of their privileges and rights of...

OTTAWA, IL. (ECWd) - According to articles in MYWEBTIMES and the NEWS-TRIBUNE, former LaSalle County State's Attorney Brian Towne was indicted late this afternoon by a LaSalle County Grand Jury. Reports indicate the indictment consists of 17 Counts of Official Misconduct and Misapplication of Public Funds. Thirteen of...

ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="194"] William "Bill" Thomas[/caption] This article is to explain the steps we believe were used by Trustee William Thomas and the other Atlanta Public Library District Board of Trustees to, in our opinion, pilfer and scam the State of Illinois...

PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - The evening of August 30th, Bob Holmes, the One-Man Volleyball Team visited the Paris Cooperative High School for an exciting evening of volleyball with several teams who thought they could out-play him. Opposing teams included Precision Collision, Chrisman Girls Volleyball, Paris Girls Volleyball, the...

CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - (Updated 8-31-2017 @ 2243 hrs) [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="215"] Carlinville Park District Board[/caption] Towards the end of the August 30, 2017 meeting of the Carlinville Park District Board of Commissioners, Board President and Commissioner Larry Smith read a resignation letter and immediately resigned...

Northern Illinois University (ECWd) - Peoplesoft Financials software is part of the enterprise software solution used by Northern Illinois University under a contractual agreement with ORACLE for NIU’s business operations, such as accounts payable, accounts receivables, student services, and human resources. In their contractual agreement, NIU...

BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Edgar County Watchdogs talk to BLNNEW.com founder Diane Benjamin about the use of city credit to purchase an airplane ticket for Bloomington Mayors Tari Renner's girlfriend to join him in Japan on a recent Sister Cities trip. Watch the video below: https://youtu.be/8mJyp08wAXw . ...

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