Will Co. (ECWd) - Public bodies in Illinois have an obligation to protect the taxpayer's money and ensure they follow the laws before them. Lincoln-Way D210 is now changing the way schools do business in Illinois. During last night's board meeting it was disclosed that the...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Lincoln-Way D210 is facing an immediate emergency! Please someone, anyone, get over to that school and take their shovel away as they are going to bury themselves alive at this pace. Oh, wait, that actually may cure some of these events...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - A vast majority of our time is spent researching public information to find deficiencies and violations of law. Once found we expose them and demand accountability to the law and correcting of deficiencies. In 2014, former Auditor General Holland's office published the...
Kane Co. (ECWd) - In spite of U46 Board member Traci Ellis's claim she wanted the naked monkey put on the table, as we suspected and wrote about in this article, she voted NO and the cover-up continues. Over the last several months Ellis has led the...
Kane Co. (ECWd) - After months of attempts in forbidding certain elected officials from listening to recordings of past closed meetings, it appears the naked monkey has finally been put on the table. Yes, U46 Board member Traci O'Neil Ellis will get her chance to...
Will Co., IL. (ECWd) - The debt collector has finally caught up with Aunt Nancy’s, a for-profit daycare business that has been operating on public property for years and doing so rent-free. All of this went under the radar in four Lincoln-Way District 210 high...
Nepotism: "bestowal of official favors on one’s relatives" (Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th Edition). Nepotism is normally frowned upon within a public body and most public officials who truly care about protecting the taxpayers have anti-nepotism policies. NIU's policy is as follows: "Faculty and administrative employees are selected...
LaSalle Co. (ECWd) - Documents received today confirm there will be a closed preliminary hearing August 31st, 2016 regarding the complaint filed. Details of the complaint can be found in this article. The purpose of the preliminary hearing is to determine if the complaint filed was...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - The very first meeting we attended for the Village of Chatham was rather comical as it was not posted in accordance with the Open Meetings Act, which we covered in this article. Â Â We found the failure to post the agenda...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Below is the Press Release issued by State Representative David Olsen. [gview file="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/David-Olsen-Selected-to-Represent-81st-House-District.pdf"] Please consider a donation to the Edgar County Watchdogs. [wp_eStore_donate id=1]...
