Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Illinois State Police interviewed four people in relation to the payroll malfeasance that was taking place in the Shelby County Sheriff's office several years ago. While we were able to obtain the written reports of those interviews, the ISP fought us...
Illinois (ECWd) - This is a developing story. We received confirmation yesterday that the US Department of Justice was notified by law enforcement in Shelby County about two water plants having their computers hacked in Herrick and Assumption, Illinois. Herrick is in Shelby County and Assumption is...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - After the resignation of the former Shelby County State's Attorney, Nichole Kroncke, in January of 2023, it was discovered by the appointed special prosecutors that records were missing from the office computers. As reported in this article, "According to an email dated February...
McDonough Co. (ECWd) - After receiving a complaint that McDonough County Sheriff Nicholas Petitgout was blocking people from the official Sheriff's Facebook page, we submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for a screenshot of the blocked users page on the Sheriff's official Facebook account. We...
(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...
