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12 Feb Algonquin Township Road District – Time Card Tuesday #2 –

Posted at 10:39h in Algonquin Township, Anna May Miller, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 0 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - It's time for Time Card Tuesday once again.  This article will begin with the first two time cards we have for Anna May Miller, former employee of the Road District. What makes this time card coverage so interesting is not just the math...

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11 Feb McHenry Court Quashes Algonquin Township’s attack on Media and First Amendment –

Posted at 10:19h in Algonquin Township, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 1 Comment

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ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP (ECWd) - UPDATE: Copy of Court Order inserted at end of article. Today, the McHenry County Circuit Court granted our Emergency Motion To Quash a subpoena from Algonquin Township directed at Dropbox, to obtain access to our Dropbox account. We asked to quash all future...

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09 Feb Unredacted Closed Session Minutes of Algonquin Township’s Jan 9 Meeting –

Posted at 12:47h in Algonquin Township, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County, Racheal Lawrence by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 0 Comments

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ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP (ECWd) - Below are the unredacted Closed Session Minutes of the January 9, 2019 meeting of the Algonquin Township Board. The Board had previously released a redacted version, but this unredacted version plays a part in a future article we will publish. The key things unredacted...

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07 Feb Video: What happens when a Township Supervisor resigns?

Posted at 16:14h in Bolingbrook, DuPage Township, feature, Will County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 2 Comments

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BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) - We made a short video explaining what happens when a Township Supervisor resigns. It is a fairly straight-forward process, once you understand that the Township Code, the Open Meetings Act, and the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act must be complied with. Some key things...

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06 Feb DuPage Township – Quorum did not attend, Town Hall style meeting followed –

Posted at 19:56h in Bolingbrook, DuPage Township, feature, Will County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 3 Comments

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BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) - View the video from February 4, 2019 below. There was a meeting of the DuPage Township Board called for Feb 4th, Trustees Maripat Oliver and Ken Burgess decided not to attend, leaving less than a majority of a quorum as that term is...

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06 Feb Video: DeKalb Township’s Shaklee Business –

Posted at 19:37h in DeKalb County, feature by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 10 Comments

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DeKalb Township (ECWd) - In April 2015 the DeKalb Township Supervisor announced a new program he was running thru General Assistance, and it dealt with the township becoming an independent agent of Shaklee Products. We cannot find any authority in the Township Code for a township to...

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06 Feb Motion for Sanctions; Witness Tampering; filed against Jasper County School District #1 –

Posted at 09:04h in feature, Jasper County, Jasper County School District #1 by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 6 Comments

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NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - The Jasper County Community School District No. 1 has received a Motion for Sanctions against it alleging one of its employees committed witness tampering by threatening and intimidating a witness in a federal lawsuit. A Federal lawsuit was brought against the Jasper County...

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06 Feb AG: Wheeling council violated Open Meetings Act

Posted at 06:19h in Cook County, feature, Wheeling by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 1 Comment

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WHEELING, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General has determined that the Village of Wheeling violated the Open Meetings Act during its September 5, 2017 public meeting. According to the written determination, Wheeling violated the OMA by enforcing restrictions on public comment that were not part of...

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05 Feb Time Card Tuesday – Algonquin Township Road District – Anna May Miller

Posted at 18:16h in Algonquin Township, Anna May Miller, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 5 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Considering it is a Tuesday and the time card reviewed today has a great big red flag for the April 4th, 2017 date, which is a Tuesday, we present to you, "Time Card Tuesday". The continued review of time cards for Anna May Miller...

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03 Feb Algonquin Township Road District – Anna May Miller – time for no time recorded..and then some

Posted at 22:20h in Algonquin Township, Algonquin Township, Anna May Miller, Bob Miller, feature, James Kelly, McHenry County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 3 Comments

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McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Recent exposure of Anna May Miller's political work from public computers and the fuzzy math time cards has raised more questions than we can keep up with.  Miller was also a County Board member while being employed by her husband at the Algonquin Township...

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