[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="186"] William Thomas[/caption] ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - We have previously written about William Thomas' 2016 Statement of Economic Interest (SEI), and how we believed it to be inaccurate. This article will cover both of his SEI filings for 2017, in which it appears he...
Limestone Twp, Kankakee Co. - (ECWd) - "I was told," "they said," "everyone I talked to," and the most common response, "it's always been done that way," is what we routinely hear when actions of public officials are questioned. During the recent Limestone Township meeting the Highway...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Watchdogs and the Illinois Policy Institute have submitted a joint friend-of-the-court brief, Amici Curiae, to the Supreme Court of Illinois in the case of Institute For Justice v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The joint brief urges...
Jasper Co. (ECWd) - Doing things the way you have always done them tends to be the biggest problem we see with public bodies, and it appears Jasper County is not much different than any of the other counties we have looked at. More often than...
LOGAN CO., IL (ECWd) - In the business of government, elected officials and certain others in decision-making positions are required to file true and accurate Statements of Economic Interest for each and every year, and file them with the County Clerk of the county they are...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS -(ECWd) - For several weeks now, the Orland Park Public Library has been refusing to produce a receipt showing what was ordered and how many people ate (or drank) at a Chicago Chinatown restaurant named Lao Sze Chuan. The Library's story is that...
Logan Co. (ECWd) - The Atlanta Public Library appears to have a few problems percolating as it relates to conflicts of interests with board member William Thomas, whom the library pays rent to. Now we find false information contained in the annual financial reporting to the...
ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - The Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Public Library District have failed to fill a vacant trustee seat for several months. the vacancy originally occurred when Anne Heironymus resigned and her resignation accepted at the March 10, 2016 meeting - she said...
[caption id="attachment_38047" align="alignnone" width="338"] (Tinley Park Mayor Jacob "Jake" Vandenberg, in Hawaiian print shirt on the far right. One of the Village's attorneys, Patrick Connelly of the firm Peterson Johnson Murray, is pictured just to the left of the unidentified man in blue in the...
ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - Below is the full video of the Atlanta Public Library Disctrict's board of trustees meeting held on August 10, 2017. Library District Trustee, Treasurer, and Atlanta's very own walking-conflict-of-interest, Mr. William "Bill" Thomas, was missing from the meeting...
