Author: KDuJan

30 Sep Klein Thorpe Jenkins Law Firm Has Long List of Clients Who Violate Open Meetings Act

Posted at 16:37h in Cook County, feature, Orland Park, Orland Park Public Library, Tinley Park, Wheeling by KDuJan 2 Comments

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WHEELING, ILLINOIS - (ECWd) - At a recent Village of Wheeling public meeting, attorney James V. Ferolo from Klein Thorpe Jenkins represented the Village. Keen observers of Open Meetings Act violations committed in recent years have pieced together a concerning pattern where Klein Thorpe Jenkins, as a...

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20 Sep VIDEO: Countless OMA and Civil Rights Violations By Village of Wheeling Board with Klein Thorpe Jenkins Attorney

Posted at 21:44h in Cook County, feature, Wheeling by KDuJan 10 Comments

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WHEELING, ILLINOIS (ECWd) -- On Monday September 18th 2017, the Village of Wheeling engaged in something similar to a crime spree when it comes to trashing both the Open Meetings Act (OMA) and the United States Constitution (specifically the First Amendment's right to petition government bodies...

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08 Sep Utah Nurse Alex Wubbels’ Assault By Police Officer Proves Power of FOIA

Posted at 17:54h in Cook County, feature, Orland Park, Orland Park Public Library by KDuJan 5 Comments

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ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (ECWd) - The July 26th, 2017 violent physical assault on University of Utah Burn Center Nurse Alex Wubbels by out-of-control Salt Lake City Police Detective Jeff Payne proves the power of the Freedom of Information Act and its importance in holding public officials...

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26 Aug Orland Park Public Library Runs Afoul of Local Government Travel Expense Control Act

Posted at 09:50h in Cook County, feature, Orland Park, Orland Park Public Library by KDuJan 2 Comments

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(Orland Park Public Library Director Mary Weimar's credit card spending is questioned.) ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS -- (ECWd) -  A strong argument can be made that the Orland Park Public Library Board (OPPLB) of Trustees has run afoul of the Illinois Local Government Travel Expense Control Act (50...

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20 Aug Tinley Park Mayor Vandenberg’s Mysterious Visit to Police Station After Paul McCartney Concert

Posted at 11:36h in Cook County, feature, Tinley Park by KDuJan 7 Comments

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TINLEY PARK, ILLINOIS -- (ECWd) - In a mysterious development in the matter of Tinley Park Mayor Jacob "Jake" Vandenberg's shameful behavior last month after the July 26th Paul McCartney concert, Freedom of Information Act requests made to the Village for video footage of the Mayor...

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16 Aug Orland Park Public Library Blocks Email to Prevent FOIA Request, Busted By Attorney General’s Office

Posted at 09:31h in Attorney General, Cook County, Orland Park, Orland Park Public Library by KDuJan 9 Comments

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ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (ECWd) -- The Orland Park Public Library apparently manipulated its email server somehow to block a recent Freedom of Information Act request from this author, made on August 4th, 2017 for documents related to what appears to be possible violations of the Illinois...

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14 Aug Orland Park Public Library’s Receipt Story Doesn’t Add Up at Lao Sze Chuan

Posted at 12:39h in Cook County, feature, Orland Park, Orland Park Public Library by KDuJan 2 Comments

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ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS -(ECWd) - For several weeks now, the Orland Park Public Library has been refusing to produce a receipt showing what was ordered and how many people ate (or drank) at a Chicago Chinatown restaurant named Lao Sze Chuan. The Library's story is that...

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13 Aug Ethics Complaint Filed Against Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg

Posted at 19:00h in Cook County, Tinley Park by KDuJan 6 Comments

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[caption id="attachment_38086" align="alignnone" width="224"] Plaque allegedly presented to Paul McCartney by Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg on July 26th, 2017 before his concert at Hollywood amphitheater.[/caption] TINLEY PARK, IL (ECWd) - As an update to an earlier report on Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg's alcohol-fuelled public spectacle...

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11 Aug Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg’s alcohol induced Hissy Fit After Paul McCartney Concert

Posted at 23:23h in Cook County, feature, Tinley Park by KDuJan 5 Comments

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[caption id="attachment_38047" align="alignnone" width="338"] (Tinley Park Mayor Jacob "Jake" Vandenberg, in Hawaiian print shirt on the far right. One of the Village's attorneys, Patrick Connelly of the firm Peterson Johnson Murray, is pictured just to the left of the unidentified man in blue in the...

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11 Aug Orland Park Public Library Squandered $4,350 by Erasing Video History with Bridget Bittman, Disgraced Former Spokesman

Posted at 20:54h in Cook County, Orland Park, Orland Park Public Library by KDuJan 4 Comments

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Orland Park, Illinois Recently, keen eyes noticed a curious change on the Orland Park Public Library's official Facebook page, which had previously hosted numerous videos dating back to 2014 that the OPPL had paid local videographer Maqbool Rashid to produce (at a cost to taxpayers of...

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