ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - The Orland Park Public Library held a personnel meeting today in which they want to give pay raises to library employees. Some of these employees are making far more than the average library pays in the surrounding area, the OPPL in...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Unauthorized Pay Raises This whole issue of unauthorized pay raises came about after a December 23, 2013 meeting where a pay raise was voted on and approved. According to the minutes, several council members commented that this was “out of cycle” for raises...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - On July 10 of this year, a person was in the library sitting down where others could see him. One person was shocked enough to call the police and report it. Here is what happened: Mary Weimar, Orland Park Public Library Director,...
VERMILION CO., IL. (ECWd) - Part of the agreement for the sale of the Vermilion County Nursing Home was to include a sewer hookup to the Village of Tilton sewer system. We reported on this here and here starting almost 9 months ago. This new sanitary sewer...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - Today, the determination letter from the Illinois Attorney General's office arrived stating that the Orland Park Public Library Board of Trustees (OPPL-BoT) violated the Open Meetings Act when they voted to "ratify and affirm" actions taken at an illegal special meeting...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - Yet again, and hopefully the last time, Arcola Township has had another Freedom of Information Act civil suit filed against them for their alleged failure to comply with the FOIA. This makes this the 6th active civil suit under FOIA against Arcola...
ARCOLA, IL. (ECWd) - As I wrote in this previous article (here), Arcola Township has been sued for the 5th time for alleged violations of the Freedom of Information Act. The FOIA is such a simple public Act that I find it hard to believe public bodies...
NORTH HENDERSON, IL. (ECWd) - Following the article we posted this morning (click here), WQAD from the Quad Cities area ran a story on the 10:00 p.m. news after interviewing residents of North Henderson. From WQAD: Just South of the Quad Cities some people in the village of...
NORTH HENDERSON, IL. (ECWd) - Up in Mercer County Illinois, Northwest of Peoria, there is a small village named North Henderson (pop. 187). It suffers from all of the same problems that larger cities suffer from, just on a smaller scale. There have been rumors of illegal...
DUPAGE CO. (ECWd) - The ECWd have been poking around in DuPage County at least since the summer of 2013. In December of 2013, I submitted a Freedom Of Information Act request to the College of DuPage asking for a copy of President Brueder's W-2 form...
