DeKalb, IL. (ECWd) - We were forwarded an indemnification agreement entered into earlier this year by Northern Illinois University's President Baker and employee Nancy Suttenfield, interim Chief Financial Officer of NIU. What makes this worrisome is the after-the-fact indemnification, coupled with what appears to be indemnification of...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - Fact checking has become one of the most common things we do in our investigations of public bodies. It’s amazing how often we find half-truths, misinformation, and incomplete opinions, yet the very officials presenting such can look you in the eye...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois State Representative Edward J. Acevedo (D) appears to be electioneering with state funds against Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. I am alleging that through the introduction of House Resolution 0761, which "Calls upon the Republican Party to publicly denounce Donald Trump for...
Kansas, IL. (ECWd) - Shortly before 10:00 a.m. today, Sep 15, 2015, the Kansas Fire Department was called to a house fire on the east end of town on Jefferson Street. Further information will be provided if we receive it. ...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - ONLY YOU Can Prevent Forest Liars: Cross-Examination of the All-Star Witnesses in the DuPage County Forest Preserve IT Case PART TWELVE OF COUNTYLEAKS SERIES ON DUPAGE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE...
Effingham, IL. (ECWd) - It has come to our attention that the Board of Trustees of the Effingham School District were given free items (compensation) that the general public are not given, free of charge. We see this in almost every case where the legislature has explicitly...
DeKalb, IL. (ECWd) - Edited for clarity and to correct ownership of real estate...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Orland Park Library Board returns some (but not all) of gold it took from taxpayers A few Orland Park Public Library trustees have now returned some (but not all) of the gold that they had accepted as rewards for being on this...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Received this tip in an email blast on a recent change to the "Right to Privacy in the School Setting Act" from the legal firm of Hodges, Loizzi, Eisenhammer, Rodick & Kohn LLP...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - The DuPage County State's Attorney, Bob Berlin, has stated that his office will not prosecute the College of DuPage Open Meetings Act violation from four years ago in which the Illinois Attorney General determined a violation occurred, and made that determination...
