OAKLAND, IL (ECWd) - Last week, the Oakland Fire Protection District held a special meeting to appoint three new trustees, to replace the three trustees who resigned earlier. Having no statutory authority to ask the circuit court to make those appointments, the resigned trustees "un-resigned" long enough...
Joliet, IL. (ECWd) - Earlier this year, we published an article explaining that Senator Michael Hastings had filed a Rule 224 Motion in Will County Court in an attempt at discovering who had access to and distributed a copy of a police report his wife made...
Will Co., IL. (ECWd) - Will County Board Member Amanda Koch resigned from office after the Will County State's Attorney's Office delivered a 4-page letter to her spelling out the conflicts of her serving as a county board member and as a Commissioner of the Veterans...
WILL CO., IL. (ECWd) - Denise Williams, Veterans Assistance Commission Board Secretary, insists she has the right to vote during commission meetings. She has no right to vote and any bylaws purporting to grant her the right to vote are invalid and violative of Section 9...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - A new 117-page 23-Count superseding federal indictment was handed down on October 12, 2022, against former Illinois Speaker of the House, Mike Madigan. From among the counts are allegations of: Bribery, Official Misconduct Acceptance of money, etc.; prohibition Legislative Misconduct Extortion and interstate...
DOLTON, IL. (ECWd) - Earlier last month, the Village of Dolton Trustees passed a Resolution removing Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard's name from the village's bank account, which should have prevented her from signing any checks. During the October 3, 2022, Village board meeting, Henyard, obviously upset one...
Charleston, IL. (ECWd) - We had previously published an article about this JB Pritzker campaign event at the Charleston Library and stated we would publish the video once it was made available. Now we have the video. The man stood up and shouted: "You shut my gym down...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Edgar County Coroner, Scott Barrett, has released details on an early Saturday morning apartment house fire that has resulted in the death of two Paris residents. . A call came into the Edgar County 911 Dispatch Center at 6:07 a.m. Saturday, October 1. The...
Edgar Co., IL. (ECWd) - More offensive sexual related videos have apparently surfaced coming out of the Edgar County Jail. This time an Edgar County Sheriff's Corrections Officer (CO), apparently videoed a prisoner being strip-searched, while the CO was singing a rap song about strip searches, and...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - Edgar County Sheriff's Corrections Officer Heather Mccullough is scheduled for pre-trial on November 30, 2022, in Crawford County where she was previously charged with Assault earlier this summer. Assault is a Class C Misdemeanor according to the Illinois Criminal Code. Our previous article...
