Hancock Co., IL. (ECWd) - Last month, the Hancock County Circuit Court Ordered the Hancock County Sheriff to provide the names of people who purchased guns at the Sheriff's gun sale. We asked for the records so we could determine if any Sheriff's Department employees purchased...
Sangamon Co., IL. (ECWd) - Rep. Darren Bailey filed a Petition for Adjudication of Indirect Civil Contempt this morning against Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker in Sangamon County Circuit Court. From the Petition: Clay County Court declared Pritzker no longer had any emergency powers under Section 7 of the...
Pecatonica, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General has determined that Pecatonica Township Supervisor Joe Musso violated the Open Meetings Act by prohibiting me from speaking at the February 18, 2020, meeting because I signed up 13 minutes in advance of the meeting instead of 15...
Bolingbrook, IL. (ECWd) - DuPage Township Board of Trustees meeting. 10-20-2020. During Public Comment, Trustee Oliver attempted to commandeer the microphone (at about 1:19:49 in the video) after her three minutes of allotted time had expired. She must have thought that since she was a Trustee that...
Wesley Township, IL. (ECWd) - ***Updated with copy of Complaint. Wesley Township has, in recent weeks, made comments pertaining to a current Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit they are fighting. These comments relate to the persons who filed the suit, and one of their alleged actions prior...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - Paris, Illinois Fire Department worked putting out a house fire at 507 South Central this afternoon. It started at approximately 4:30 this afternoon. The first few seconds of this video does not have sound...
Illinois (ECWd) - Illinois Governor Pritzker has lost his motion to vacate the Clay County order in the Darren Baily case. As we suspected would happen, the judge ruled that the Clay County Circuit Court did have jurisdiction to issue their order. This being the case, the...
ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - ATLANTA PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT FINAL REPORT The short version: Yes, the finished police reports indicate that no Federal charges will be brought in the Atlanta Library investigation, conducted by the FBI, in response to the Logan County State's Attorney asking them to look into...
Shelby Co (ECWd) - Below is the video of the Shelby County Board meeting with the exception of the last 30 minutes or so of the meeting. Due to scheduling, we had to leave early so we apologize for not being able to capture the entire...
Sangamon (ECWd) - The Rochester Fire Protection District held their meeting this week, which was the first meeting after exposure of the violations of law covered by Channel 17 I-Team investigation and our article. It became clear there was an orchestrated effort to deflect from the real...
