BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - In an April 26, 2021, Opinion, the Appellate Court determined that the City of Bloomington violated the Open Meetings Act on February 20, 2017, when it went into closed session for one hour and twenty-seven minutes to discuss terminating an Intergovernmental Agreement...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Bloomington School District 87 has been violating the Open Meetings Act by demanding people reveal their home addresses in order to participate in public comment. See examples of this unlawful demand by D87 (HERE, HERE, and HERE) - even demanding the addresses of...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - We first exposed what we called a police coverup in Bloomington in this article. From that first exposure and after it was brought to the Mayor's attention during public comment at a recent meeting, we had to publish several more articles to...
McLean Co. (ECWd) - We ran our story on the City of Bloomington police coverup in this article. After that article published and the Mayor got called out during public comment by Diane Benjamin of BLNNews, the Mayor went on a rant that included lies, false...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - Our response to Bloomington Mayor Renner's comments to Diane Benjamin's public comment at their City Council meeting: Here is Renner's response during public comment and Renner's radio interview, which prompted our response: ...
Bloomington, IL (ECWd) - After publishing this article, numerous outlets focused on the Mayor's response to a public comment made during the last city council meeting. We will provide a video update to those comments in an upcoming article. The following day the city manager was interviewed...
Bloomington, IL (ECWd) - To grasp the magnitude of this chain of events, please first watch my public comment to the Bloomington City Council back in September of 2019. We informed them we would get to the bottom of the matter but rather than providing the requested...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - I met Diane Benjamin on a cold, windy morning, in front of Bloomington-Normal's Mass Transit, Connect Transit, to discuss its massive financial losses each month - all paid for by the taxpayer. According to public records obtained by Diane, Connect Transit loses more...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Earlier this month, Bloomington, IL. Mayor Tari Renner went on a local radio show to dispute a report that one of the city's police officers resigned, and that something was going on with that officer's duty performance as the reason for his...
McLean Co. (ECWd) - The Plaintiff attorney and former McLean County Assistant State's Attorney in a recently filed Sexual Harassment lawsuit out of McLean County is accused of practicing law without a license, according to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. The basics of the Complaint are...
