ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - According to PACER and its docket notification system, the SLAPP lawsuit Bridget Bittman filed in order to silence critics of the Orland Park Public Library has been withdrawn. We anticipate a press release forthcoming. A conference was held on March 15, 2015 where...
TINLEY PARK, IL. (ECWd) - BREAKING: Early in the morning on 3/22/16, the Village of Tinley Park was hit with a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court (Chancery Division) alleging multiple counts of wrongdoing centered around the actions of Village Attorney Thomas Melody (Klein Thorpe Jenkins)...
Lincoln-Way North - Published on Mar 18, 2016 From Story Time Digital Media with Megan Fox: District 210 has been getting away with financial mismanagement and what looks a lot like fraud against taxpayers. Megan Fox sits down with Steve Eberhardt, the attorney who filed suit on behalf...
CAHOKIA, IL. (ECWd) - When citizens file complaints against a public body for violating the Freedom of Information Act and violating the Open Meetings Act, the Attorney General asks the public body for their official stance on what happened. In this case, a complaint was made because...
DuPage County (ECWd) - After filing a FOIA request for copies of the complete compensation packages of DuPage County Board members, and receiving a cryptic response to exactly what the county was paying on behalf of county board members for their health insurance, I forwarded their...
Obituary for Jeremy James Baston Jeremy James Baston, age 27, of Westfield, IL passed away on Tuesday afternoon, March 15, 2016 in Vermilion County, IL the result of an automobile accident. He was born January 20, 1989 in Mattoon, IL, the son of LeRoy Jr. Baston...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - With this week's edition of the PP looking like a gigantic sob-fest after election results came in, it is no wonder a completely untrue article headline occurred on its front page, below the fold. LOL. What a joke! I called the State Board of...
CAHOKIA, IL. (ECWd) - Last summer, after taking office, Mayor McCall ordered the Cahokia Police Department to steal all property belonging to the Cahokia Food Basket, a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization. He did this without any legal authority. He ordered them to "supervise" the non-profit and force them to...
CAHOKIA, IL. (ECWd) - The picture says it all. I have yet to attend a public meeting where police officers are used in such a fashion to intimidate the public. Please don't consider this a police-hate article, because we realize they are simply doing their job as instructed. I...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - During "National Sunshine Week" in which virtually every organization (and good public official)Â across the nation, who publish information about government is screaming for more transparency and Freedom of Information Act reforms to enhance access to public records, the Prairie Press publishes a...
