MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Police are reporting that the First Financial Bank was robbed this morning at around 11:00 a.m. by a man that did not even bother to disguise himself. More information at this link on Disclosure News Online (HERE). WAWV also has an article on this...
NORTH HENDERSON, IL. (ECWd) - We attended the Village Trustee meeting 8-14-2014, in North Henderson, WQAD from the Quad Cities was also there and you can read their report with video here:Â from WQAD...
EDGAR CO. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Board held its regular monthly meeting today, August 13, 2014, at the courthouse. There were several actions taken, among those were: -Roll Call: Dan Bruner was the only board member not in attendance - Sandra Willett (currently Clerk Pro Tempore) was appointed to...
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...
