College of DuPage (ECWd) - At its meeting tonight, the College of DuPage Board of Trustees elected its officers for the upcoming year. Board Officers voted in for the 2016-2017 board year are as follows: Chairman is Trustee Mazzochi Vice-Chair is Trustee Olsen Board Secretary is Trustee Napolitano Luzelena Escamilla was...
Forest Ridge, IL. (ECWd) - Forest Ridge School District 142 in the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest held its monthly board meeting on 4/19/16, at which board member Roxana Agler shamed herself with childish and bizarre behavior that is, in our opinion, unbecoming of an elected...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - In our continued efforts to provide absolute truth to our readers, we must once again point out inaccuracies in how a certain local publication prints quotes by Farnham, Edgar County Board Member, without fact-checking them. The quote used was in relation to the...
Edgar County, IL. (ECWd) - The local governments in Edgar County owed the State of Illinois a total of $166,119.51 in overpayments the state made with the personal property replacement tax back in 2014. A list of all Edgar County overpayments are below, with the School Districts,...
CLARK COUNTY, IL. (ECWd) - Amazing things happen when you sit down and read the laws applicable to the local government that you are a board member of. This simple concept is foreign to Ron Stone, Joe Ewing, Glen Kuehnel, Terry Stepp, and their attorney, Lorna...
OLIVER, IL. (ECWd) - The Clark-Edgar Rural Water District, whose customers pay one of the highest water rates in the State of Illinois, will more than likely see another increase in rates. On the agenda for their April 21, 2016 board meeting is discussion and a vote...
TINLEY PARK, IL. (ECWd) - At the 4/19/16 Village of Tinley Park Board Meeting, Thomas Melody of Klein Thorpe Jenkins was removed as the Village Attorney and replaced by Patrick Connelly, of the firm Peterson Johnson Murray. This followed Item #26 on the agenda and a...
Mattoon, IL - Lake Land College - Costly Broken Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment Posted By Andrew Follett On 1:32 PM 04/12/2016 In | [caption id="attachment_29812" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo from original article (link at bottom)[/caption] Lake Land College recently announced plans to tear down...
Windsor, IL. (ECWd) - What follows is a true story of a City Councilman hiring his wife to work for the city, allowing her to charge fuel to her personal car to the city, and then she falsifies time cards to purchase gift cards for her...
Glen Ellyn - College of DuPage - Twenty-one months after the Glen Ellyn Police Department improperly redacted information Kirk Allen requested, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor finally made a determination. On April 13, 2016, the AG's PAC determined that the Glen Ellyn Police Department's redaction of...
