DuPage County, IL. (ECWd) - Public Safety Announcement: Surge in Overdose and Suicide Deaths Review First 6 Months of 2020. Public Safety Announcement: Surge in Overdose and Suicide Deaths Review First 6 Months of 2020. On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 DuPage County Coroner Richard Jorgensen, M.D. reported on...
Bloomingdale, IL. (ECWd) - Constituent: "Ms. Pappas, I would like to discuss this with one on one. You stood on my doorstep and asked for my vote. I am now asking you to stand on my doorstep and discuss this with me." Pappas replied: "Regrettably, due to...
DuPage County, IL. (ECWd) - The day after we published an article on seven townships donating public funds to "Township Officials of DuPage County", a registered Political Action Committee, its Chairman, Randy Ramey, sent a letter to the State Board of Elections saying it had erroneously...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - Earlier last week, during a routine examination of the State Board of Elections contributions database, I stumbled across a new Political Action Committee ("PAC") formed in May 2020, which had received $1,000.00 "donations" from 7 townships in DuPage County. The new PAC...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - On July 11, 2014, Kirk Allen requested copies, from the College of DuPage, of membership documents related to Max McGraws Wildlife Foundation for the previous five years. On August 4, 2014, Allen filed a Request for Review with the Illinois Attorney General's...
Naperville, IL. (ECWd) - The Naperville Park District field an Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order against Governor JB Pritzker. From the Emergency Motion: This Court should grant a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Governor from continuing to thwart the Naperville Park District...
DuPage County (ECWd) - This afternoon, the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor released a determination stating that DuPage County violated the Freedom of Information Act when it refused to provide W2s for certain elected officials of the county. Those W2s were originally requested in May of 2016,...
Vermilion, DuPage, Rock Island, Sangamon, Henry, and Mclean Counties (ECWd) - Updated: 12-27-2019 @ 0910 hrs. to include Henry County and the Kewanee Airport Authority During 2017, 2018, and 2019, we were busy ousting disqualified Airport Authority Commissioners in six separate counties in Illinois. All but two counties...
DuPage CO. (ECWd) - During its October 22, 2019 board meeting, the DuPage County Board approved $1,359,172.00 worth of no-bid Insurance contracts (see pages 3 and 4) with Alliant/Mesirow, the company where Illinois House Speaker Madigan's son, Andrew Madigan, is an Executive. We believe, as does the...
ILLINOIS - (ECWD) - By now, most already know Illinois State Senator Tom Cullerton has been Indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on 41 counts. You can read the full Indictment below. What we find interesting, and something we routinely focus on with elected officials is the inclusion...
