SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - When an agency is given tax payer money under the Governor's Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI) and Illinois Violence Prevention Authority (IVPA) it's done with obligations by those receiving the funds. It is also supposed to have oversight by those giving the money! In...
DUPAGE CO. (ECWd) - The ECWd have been poking around in DuPage County at least since the summer of 2013. In December of 2013, I submitted a Freedom Of Information Act request to the College of DuPage asking for a copy of President Brueder's W-2 form...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - On June 3, 2014 we reported (here) on a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request for review that has been waiting a determination for two years. In April I received an email from the Attorney General's PAO that I now consider a complete...
Springfield, IL (ECWd) - As reported in the Chicago Sun Times, Jaclin Davis, spouse of state Rep. Will Davis, D-Homewood, represented 11 percent of the anti-violence grant dollars her employer, Healthcare Consortium of Illinois, was allotted in 2011 and 2012 under Quinn’s program. (Click here for...
SPRINGFIELD, IL (ECWd) - After reading Rich Millers article on Capital Fax 2 days ago I realized the importance of keeping it simple. In the article he points out that no "smoking gun" has been uncovered showing "any illegal political actions by top-level Quinn administration officials...
SPRINGFIELD, IL (ECWd) - Attorney General Lisa Madigan was the Co-Chair of Governor Pat Quinn's Illinois Violence Prevention Authority (IVPA), which means she was a key player in the actions taken by that group, and I think most will agree has some explaining to do based...
CLARK CO. (ECWd) - Group objects to board's failure to allow public comment at meeting By Phil Rogers and Patrick McCraney (Better Government Association) | Wednesday, Jun 25, 2014 | Updated 5:35 PM CDT In a highly unusual move, the leader of a Downstate watchdog group placed an entire...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - One of the more novel and interesting issues brought before the Office of the Public Access Counselor (PAC) related to the ongoing lawlessness of the Orland Park Public Library Board of Trustees (the OPPL-BoT) is the fact that since December of...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - The law firm of Klein, Thorpe, and Jenkens has apparently assisted the Orland Park Public Library in their quest at committing civil rights violations by legislating the first amendment rights from an individual that only wants to address the board of...
CHICAGO, IL. (ECWd) - From the Better Government Association's Action Center: The Better Government Association is asking Gov. Pat Quinn to protect the people’s right to know by vetoing HB 3796, a recently passed bill that unfairly and unjustifiably raises significant barriers to everyday people getting access...
