(ECWd) - We first covered the Manteno, Illinois collusion with a Chinese Battery Company in this article. During the prior city council meeting the Police Chief said they had never had so many people at a meeting as the one held on October 2, 2023. Knowing...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - One of the key tools for local government accountability is found with a criminal investigation. By all indications of what we are reading on local social media pages, outbursts from people in county board meetings and public comments, it is clear a...
Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) - Over the last several months we have witnessed a laundry list of accusations regarding the Shelby County Dive Team, the vehicles, and their equipment. A few of the crazy claims: Since there was no resolution properly setting up the county dive team...
Will-Grundy-Kendall Counties, Ill. (ECWd) – This is part 5 in a series of articles on the Will County and Grundy-Kendall Counties Regional Offices of Education (“ROE”). Read parts 1 – 2 – 3 and 4. We attended the PDA board meeting earlier this month and just prior to...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - While the Shelby County Board moves forward with fixing a laundry list of problems created by past actions or inactions of former boards, it appears to be ruffling feathers of a few locals. We can't explain why doing the right thing is...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR), has determined the Shelby County farm ground parcels are not tax-exempt. Their determination was based on the assertion the property is not in exempt use. According to IDOR, the county can protest the determination and request a...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - A recent vote to release closed session minutes of the County Board disclosed a lot of information that refutes the narrative being pushed by members of the Dive Team and a few of their supporters. While the closed session minutes shed new...
Coles Co. (ECWd) - Coles County has been facing a lawsuit for the county board's hiring of a private appraiser to perform commercial property tax assessments in the county. There is no provision in the law for a county board to hire such a person which...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Board member Teresa Boehm was the subject of a quo-warranto filing due to accepting a position on the Rose Township cemetery board, which we covered in this article. During the last county board meeting a public comment was made wrongly claiming...
The Shelby County Dive Team quit several months ago and in each meeting after that event, more information percolates to the surface during the county board meetings. While the video pretty much sums up most of those recent issues, a recent release of closed session...
