PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In a 4-3 vote at this morning's Special County Board meeting, the Edgar County Board voted to award the Special Service Area Ambulance contract to Horizon Health (Paris Hospital). A note of interest is the fact the Special Meeting held today was...
[caption id="attachment_51689" align="alignleft" width="229"] Photo from Kim Brown's Facebook page[/caption] PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - A local Edgar County resident who claims to have once received a phone call from the President and declined to talk to him, has been making some outrageous claims in regards to the...
Algonquin Township (ECWd) - When we first learned that Algonquin Township Trustee Melissa Victor had decided to run for the office of Cary Park District Commissioner, we suspected those offices were incompatible. Later, after reviewing James Kelly's attorney bills to the Township, we found what appeared to...
CARY, IL. (ECWd) - We will start this article with a challenge to newly elected Cary Park District Commissioner Melissa Victor (and the remaining Commissioners): Please work to eliminate these unlawful benefits (compensation) provided to Commissioners and their family members when the Park District Code, Section...
BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) - Carol Penning, Village Clerk in the Village of Bolingbrook responded to our previous article, starting by calling the article "yellow journalism" and professing that her response was "well researched information" - we beg to differ. As with most every article we publish, it...
If you are new to our Time Card Tuesday series we urge you to catch up by first reading part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.  As pointed out in our last article, it is abundantly clear, whoever was managing payroll has some explaining to...
CARY, IL. (ECWd) - Algonquin Township Trustee Rachael Lawrence signed a sworn "Affidavit Of Rachael Lawrence", on oath and under penalty of perjury, affixed her signature Subscribed and Sworn to before Notary Public Mary Ann Selvey on the 28th day of December, 2018, that her statements...
BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) - UPDATE 4-12-2019-1945hrs.: Mayor Roger C. Claar stated that the Village Administrator hired her, she did not hire herself. Our opinion is that it doesn't matter who actually did the hiring, but we are researching this new information for a future article. It has...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Update: This original Bill was gutted and the provisions mentioned below did not pass and were not enacted into law. Get elected - hire yourself - be your own supervisor:Â PRICELESS! The Illinois House of Representatives passed, by a unanimous vote, House Bill 3501...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - State Representative Sam Yingling (D) is Chief Sponsor, with David Welter (R), Kathleen Willis (D), Daniel Didech (D), David McSweeney (R), and Jonathan Carroll (D) co-sponsoring HB3596 after House Floor Amendment 2 was added, there are a total of four amendments. The language...
