Tinley Park, IL. (ECWd) - If you have been following this story over the last month, the Village of Tinley Park has been in revolt against its elected officials since late January 2016 over a proposed low income housing project that was set to be built at...
PLAINFIELD, IL. (ECWd - I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for a simple thing - copy of comments left on a post on the school's Facebook page. Now it appears the PSD202 is prepared to spend public funds to keep those public records from the...
Tinley Park, IL. (ECWd) - In a stunning development out of Tinley Park, the 9-member Tinley Park Planning Commission had 7 of its members suddenly resign this month, all after citizens of Tinley Park started attending Board and Planning Commission meetings to voice public anger at...
Tinley Park, IL. (ECWd) - In Tinley Park (a southwestern suburb of Chicago), a local resident named Christy Heins has been caught on video harassing a reporter who has been covering the story about the local Village government engaging in shady and questionable dealings with zoning...
Tinley Park, IL. (ECWd) - On 2/4/16, the Village of Tinley Park held a Planning Commission meeting where its Planning Director, Amy Connolly, refused to speak or answer the public’s questions. Earlier this week, we covered the breaking scandal in this southwestern Chicago suburb where it...
Tinley Park, IL. (ECWd) - Residents of the Village of Tinley Park (a suburb southwest of Chicago) are up in arms and are revolting against the Village Board for attempting to sneak in a low income housing project into the community that angry homeowners believe will...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - We have been following the events as they have unfolded at the Orland Park Public Library for well over a year now, and this latest case of excessive redactions is over the top. This all started when it was discovered that child...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - Within minutes of our reporting on the Federal Judges opinion released today, we find that the Chicago Tribune ran their story confirming the Senior Corporation Counsel Jordan Marsh named in that opinion has resigned. "There's just a total disregard for the truth,...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - Although I disagreed with the method of teaching being used to curb violence in the city, as outlined in my July 2014 article, it does appear that the counselor may have very well spoken some serious truth in light of all the...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Orland Park Library’s Bridget Bittman Sued A Second Time In November 2015, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was made to the Orland Park Public Library (OPPL) asking for all documents related to any employee invoking the Library’s Indemnification Policy. This...
