Will Co. (ECWd) - Update: Corrected to eliminate reference to "A Fractional CFO" as the alleged "Company A". The Plainfield Township Supervisor Anthoney Fremarek is facing a 6 count Federal Indictment. According to the indictment docket, Fremarek has been charged with the following in part: Count 1...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - The Board of Trustees of The College of DuPage approved a $587,773.00 restitution payment from Vortex Commercial Flooring Inc. during the December 2020 board meeting. "Vortex Commercial Flooring Inc., a Chicago-area commercial flooring contractor, has been charged for its role in a long-running...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - When people are denied public records they routinely reach out to us for assistance and more often than not, we are able to request the same records and we get them. When this happens it is an indicator of a problem because...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - During the Illinois State Police criminal investigation involving the Rochester Fire Protection District and their business transactions with a company, A.E.C., owned by the Fire Chief John Archer, "Archer stated the prices AEC is selling equipment to the Rochester Fire Protection District...
U.S. (ECWd) - Throughout the year we received letters and thoughts from a lot of people. This one in particular we felt was worth sharing as we also recognize the importance of knowing our history. We routinely see local governments making mistakes that could have been...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - The Appellate Court of the Second District has handed down their order in the McHenry County Road District case. The Road District brought suit against the Township Board members and Clerk after the Board reduced the tax levy submitted by the Road...
Will Co. (ECWd) - A recent ruling in a McHenry County Township case may become problematic for DuPage Township and their administrator, Linda Youngs. We first wrote about the administrator making a change to the levy that was approved by the Board in this article. With...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Yesterday we published this article confirming the ongoing criminal investigation of the former DuPage Township Supervisor Bill Mayer. In that article we noted that the Village of Bolingbrook had not complied with our FOIA request. This morning the City of Bolingbrook responded. Within...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Earlier, we confirmed the FBI had taken over the Bolingbrook Police Department's investigation of alleged criminal activity by former DuPage Township Supervisor Bill Mayer and published this article on that fact in September. As we stated in that article, the Federal authorities...
Will Co. (ECWd) - The DuPage Township Supervisor and two trustees, Oliver and Burgess, approved the township tax levy over the objections of two other trustees, Benford and Raga during the last board meeting (video here). Benford went into great detail, to include providing a PowerPoint...
