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December 23, 2024

Author: Kirk Allen & John Kraft

Illinois (ECWd) - The morning of Aug. 3, 2017, Diana Rauner wasn’t sleeping well. It was 3:50 a.m. and she was wide awake, thinking about the Rauner brand and legacy, which at that moment was circling the drain. Two years of inattention and disengagement on the school funding...

Illinois (ECWd) - In yesterday's article exposing the Governor's wife signing off on the final version of the abortion bill, per protocol, we made reference to "sources". We rarely ever point to "sources" as the only information behind an article and decided to elaborate as we have had several...

Illinois (ECWd) - Governor Rauner: "I'm not in charge!"  According to Michael Madigan's spokesman Steve Brown, quoting from the Chicago Tribune, Brown said he didn’t know “what to make” of the governor’s comments. “If he’s not in charge, we’d better figure out who is,” Brown said. We believe...

Coles Co. (ECWd) - After running one article on Ford County and their Supervisor of Assessment failures, the Supervisor resigned and today we find that the Ford County Board of Review did just as we suggested, with one minor exception. Our suggestion in this article: "With these many...

Edgar Co. (ECWd) - Justin Hefner had his first appearance in court this morning.  He has been transferred to the Danville, IL. VA Center and his hearing was continued until March 15th, 2018. According to Judici, he has not been charged with any gun crimes.  Current charges are...

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