DuPage County, IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Watchdogs have Petitioned the 2nd Appellate Court for leave to appeal pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court  Rule 306(a)(9) - "from an order of the circuit court denying a motion to dispose under the Citizen Participation Act (735 ILCS 110/1 et seq.)". The...
VIGO CO., IN. (ECWd) - UPDATE: Corrected the registered owner of the aircraft. Earlier today, a fixed wing, single engine aircraft registered to Dr. Patrick O'Neill crashed into a home located in northern Vigo County. WTHI-TV is reporting (video report here) that both passengers were removed and airlifted to the...
La Salle County IL. (ECWd) - La Salle County State's Attorney Brian Towne has been using drug fine money in what appears is an attempt at keeping his name out there in front of voters. At least he wasn't using the controversial "Civil Asset Forfeiture" fund, and the...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Once again, the Illinois Attorney General has issued an opinion, and they have stated that the Clark County Park District has violated the Freedom of Information Act for refusing to answer a request for public records in the time required by law. In...
"The Girl Left Behind" The story of Kayla Mueller’s torture and death at the hands of ISIS is a devastating one. According to the NY Daily News, Kayla traveled to Aleppo, Syria, in 2013 with her boyfriend, Omar Alkhani, to help install hospital equipment. Alkhani was a contractor for...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - The Court heard Motions for Retrial yesterday in the case of Fred Cox, who was convicted by a jury last December, but whose sentencing was delayed due to inclement weather this past February, and delayed further when DNA results became available. We...
CHATHAM, IL. (ECWd) - Chatham Mayor Tom Gray, also President of the Illinois Municipal League, decided he didn't like a citizen telling him she would fire him if it were up to her. During the August 23, 2016 village board meeting, a resident told the board that...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - We will take your taxes, but you are not good enough to work here In their usual form, the majority of the Board of Commissioners voted to allow their Director, who has violated district policy every single day she shows up at work,...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Our radio interview Ben Yount and Andrew Nelms talking about the watchdog training coming up tomorrow (Aug 20, 2016) in Springfield. [audio mp3="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Il-Watchdog-Radio.mp3"][/audio] . Please consider a donation to the Edgar County Watchdogs. [wp_eStore_donate id=1] ....
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - We wrote in December 2015 about RIDES threatening a lawsuit (here) and explained the situation pretty thoroughly. RIDES-MTD filed the lawsuit a couple weeks ago. The bottom line is that you must follow the law when dissolving a mass transit district ("MTD"), the county...
