CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Breaking News: The City of Carlinville answered a FOIA request within the 5-day requirement! The Freedom Of Information Act request did not come from me, but it did come from someone who writes for blnnews.com. What she requested was the payroll of all city...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - A long-time reader of ECWd sent us the attached letter from the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor requesting the City of Carlinville provide further information on why it refused to answer two Freedom of Information Act requests sent to them by Mr. Robert Bogue. Please...
[caption id="attachment_36236" align="alignnone" width="190"] Amy Connolly[/caption] Tinley Park, Illinois On May 1st, 2017, the Village of Tinley Park filed a scathing federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Eastern Division) against erstwhile Planning Director Amy Connolly for deliberate breach of...
EFFINGHAM, IL. (ECWd) - As citizens, we don't just have the right to expect local governments spend our tax dollars legally and transparently--we have the responsibility to hold them accountable when they don't. But how can you keep your local government honest? Join Americans for Prosperity Foundation...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - In yet another example of poor legal input, the Township Board appointed a replacement Supervisor to serve the remainder of Steve Shoaff's term, which is a whopping 14 days, and it went downhill from there. In order for a person to enter upon...
WHEELING, IL. (ECWd) - During the Wheeling Village Council meeting on May 1, 2017, a resident questioned the suspicious timing of a gift of public property to a developer, and the timing of the paying off of former Mayor Argiris' home just days prior to it's foreclosure/Sheriff's sale. Deborah...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The May 1, 2017 regular meeting of the Shelbyville Township board was met with multiple resignations from office. We covered the attorney/FOIA officer resignation in this article. Under new business, the current Township Supervisor, Steve Shoaff, tendered not one, but two resignations. He resigned...
Shelbyville Co. (ECWd) - At its township meeting on May 1, 2017, the Shelbyville Township attorney resigned from her appointed position as township FOIA Officer and also informed the board she would not seek to continue being the township attorney (effectively resigning from that position as well)....
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - A quick update on the City of Carlinville's continued noncompliance with the Freedom Of Information Act. Received: The city answered the complaint in the FOIA suit I have received, most, but not all, public records related to the January 16, 2017 FOIA request I...
COLES CO., IL. (ECWd) - Coles County "Commercial Assessor" is actually a Contractor - not an Employee, and has never been properly contracted with, nor properly appointed. We now have positive proof that the Commercial Assessor, Robert Becker, used by the Supervisor of Assessments in Mattoon Township...
