TERRE HAUTE, IN. (ECWd) - According to WTHI-TV (article here): An investigation is underway after police say 30-100 shots were fired at the National Guard Armory on Maple Avenue in Terre Haute. It happened just after midnight on Sunday morning. Police were initially called to the armory after receiving...
JACKSONVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - After the article we published yesterday (with incriminating video) concerning the apparent Gray Noll campaign event held in the concession stand of the local school district, Morgan County's appointed State's Attorney Gray Noll has scrubbed his campaign Facebook page of all evidence...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - The Orland Park History Museum, which opened this past April in the former red-brick Village Hall building in Orland Park, has accepted into its archive collection a book that was banned by the Orland Park Public Library (OPPL), despite book-banning being...
JACKSONVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During Friday night's football game at School District 117, the Gray Noll Campaign, which included Morgan County State's Attorney Gray Noll, and Assistant Morgan County State's Attorney Chad Turner, "manned" the concession stand in Gray Noll campaign t-shirts. This, in our opinion, is...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - According to a United States Department of Justice Press Release, dated September 8, 2016, Roy Collin, former director of the Kankakee Valley Park District, was charged with defrauding the Park District. Former Executive Director of Kankakee Valley Park District Charged with Fraud Scheme Springfield, Ill....
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - On August 27, 2016, Gary Henry reported that Robert Howrey stated "IDOT estimates approximately half of the county-owned airports in Illinois are not zoned." He also stated "IDOT was not willing to acknowledge de facto zoning existed because of FAA rules, which...
The Illinois Metropolitan Investment Fund ran into trouble a couple years ago when one of the funds they invested in fraudulently squandered the public funds. Initially, the estimate of recovery of funds was believed to be somewhere above 80%, but was later downgraded to 47.6% of the...
CHATHAM, IL. (ECWd) - Chatham, Illinois residents have had ongoing issues with water quality since the city switched to the South Sangamon Water Commission. Several emails have been sent to the mayor requesting a "town hall" face-to-face type meeting which would allow residents to ask questions...
Princeton, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has finally, after 13 months, made a determination that the Princeton Park District had violated the Open Meetings Act on May 18, 2015. The Princeton Park District, like many other local governments, tried silencing a critic by...
Cook County, IL. (ECWd) - 'Watchdogs' appeal DuPage judge's OK of lawsuit over reporting of alleged 'pay to play' for COD contract Jonathan Bilyk Aug. 31, 2016, 4:14pm Journalists who help chronicle and expose corruption in Illinois governments have asked a state appeals court to step in, after...
