DuPage Co. (ECWd) - The final article on DuPage State's Attorney's letter to the county board chairman regarding compensation of elected officials. This one focuses on compensation of the State's Attorney. Click here for Part 1 and Part 2. The bottom line in the previous two articles as...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - We have received several tips that indicate State Rep Ron Sandack (R-Downers Grove) has resigned from office. This has also been reported by several news organizations. Sandack cited recent "cyber security issues" as his main reason for resigning and is quoted in Capitol...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Today, Governor Rauner signed the Local Government Travel Expense Control Act (read it here) which is meant to scale back on the lavish expenses incurred by public officials under the guise of "official business". The LGTECA requires school districts, community college districts, and...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - I would first like to begin with pointing out how much we appreciate the new leadership and their legal counsel at the College of DuPage. Had it not been for them, this article may have never been written and we believe...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - We see that DuPage County State's Attorney charged a Winfield Fire Protection District person with felony forgery and official misconduct for what appears to be presenting a forged college diploma. (Daily Herald coverage here) Keeping that in mind, let's look at...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - "They are a large, Irish-Catholic political family known for pooling their talents to win campaigns they're not expected to", says the Chicago Tribune referring to the Cronin family in this article. As far as talent in winning campaigns, one could argue...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - It is amazing to see how fast a person goes from insinuations he would have to start out as a 5-Star General if he went into the military, to a sniveling has been, claiming his human rights have been violated after...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - Below are photos from our Watchdog Training event held in DuPage County on June 18, 2016. There were only a couple of empty seats :) The next one will be in Springfield, IL. in August. Additionally, one of the attendees has filed his first Freedom of...
Naperville, IL. (ECWd) - Continuing with the letter concerning compensation of DuPage County elected officials (Part 1 here), on Page 6 starts the discussion of Health Insurance participation (complete letter here): [documentcloud url="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2940529-DuPage-SA-Opinion-Compensation/annotations/307304.html"] We agree that the Counties Code "authorizes" county elected officials to participate in insurance programs,...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Once again we must start by pointing out, "you can't make this stuff up!" Robert Breuder, former College of DuPage President who had been the center of numerous scandals that rocked COD since the fall of 2014, filed a formal complaint with...
