Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We covered the 4th Judicial Circuit Court Chief Judge's ruling in a previous article where she directed the Shelby County State's Attorney to file an affidavit pertaining to any conflict she has related to the lawsuit brought by the illegally hired attorney...
Illinois (ECWd) - During the last Legislative session, numerous new laws were pushed through with little or no time to evaluate them for even the most basic of problems. Throughout the Illinois School Code, there have been amendments and new laws passed and signed into law...
Illinois (ECWd) - Friday of last week we saw ComEd basically plead guilty to a litany of criminal allegations which directly implicate the Illinois House of Representative Speaker Micheal Madigan (article here). In short order, Governor Pritzker called for Madigan's resignation for betraying the public trust. Trust...
Shelby County - (ECWd) - On June 14, 2020, the Chief Judge of the Circuit, Judge Kimberly G. Koester issued her order in the matter of the Treasurer seeking legal counsel. "STATUTORILY, THE STATE'S ATTORNEY IS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OFFICE HOLDERS OF EACH COUNTY AND THEREFORE...
Quincy, Illinois (ECWd) - The Quincy Public School Board has been named in a verified complaint brought by a parent of one of a 4th-grade student. The suit was filed over the mandates created for children to return to school. "Quinn, and her minor child, will suffer...
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...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - The day after losing in Clay County, which invalidated all of his Executive Orders dealing with COVID-19 that were issued after April 8, 2020, Governor Pritzker posted a threat in a Facebook post, and sent two memorandums to local leaders giving them...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Former Springfield (Sangamon County) Mass Transit District facilities manager, Aaron Beck, charged with three felony counts of official misconduct and three felony counts of theft of government property. We wrote about his termination from the district in September 2019 (read it here). We know...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We first reported on Shelby County Corrections Officer Christopher Zakowski DUI arrest in this article. We have now obtained the arrest report and first want to thank the arresting officer for doing the very job he took an oath to perform. Officer...
Kendall Co. (ECWd) - The Parkview Christian Academy can now take credit, through their attorney Thomas DeVore of Silver Lake Group Ltd., for educating more Illinois state actors. In this case, the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Public Health have been...
