CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Carlinville Park District has joined the ranks of three other park districts in Illinois to live up to Illinois Park District Code's standard of "shall act as such without compensation" as defined in Section 4-1 of the Park District Code. [caption id="attachment_36154" align="alignleft"...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Mayor Deanna Demuzio's leadership is a complete failure. She gets an "F" in transparency and an "F" in leadership. The Carlinville FOIA Officer, Carla Brockmeier, gets an "F" in compliance with the law. Demuzio, as Mayor of the city, directs the city attorneys and has apparently...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Update 4-28-2017: Carlinville filed an answer to the Complaint with the Macoupin Circuit Clerk's Office today, April 28, 2017. According to the Macoupin County Circuit Clerk's information in the Judici database, the City of Carlinville has failed to answer the Summons served on...
CLARK CO., IL. (ECWd) - During a Special Meeting of the Clark County Park District Board of Commissioners, held April 25, 2017, the Board voted to declare the lease agreement for Lot #6 to be Void and worthy of no further discussion. We thank them for...
WHITESIDE CO., IL. (ECWd) - Within a week of our attendance at the Whiteside County Airport Board meeting, the Chairman and another board member tendered their resignations. Board Chairman Stan Domack, the subject of a previous video proclaiming that "Rules and regulations are a bunch of crap,"...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - In a direct reflection of Mayor Deanna Demuzio's incompetence in seeking out legal advice, her chosen attorneys are failing to assist her in complying with the law - unless maybe she is directing them to ignore the law? In yet another apparent willful disregard of the Freedom of...
Illinois (ECWd) - Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino was cherry picked to hold a 10-year government position that has the oversite investigative power to include subpoena power in the State of Illinois like none other, next to the Attorney General. He is not an auditor...
 Illinois (ECWd) The D2 filing for Frank Mautino's campaign reflected a lot of loan payments for loans that did not exist according to the paperwork. In reviewing the Joe & Harry payments some of those loan checks jumped out at me. Loan Payments, which we have covered...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois State Representatives Jeanne Ives and Grant Wehrli talk to ECWd about their thoughts on Mautino and last week's hearing in Chicago. Rep. Wehrli also mentioned HB0415, which would require a photo of expense receipts be filed along with the expenditure report to...
Who is Harry? Whoever he is, much like Joe, he received campaign cash on a regular basis, year after year from Frank Mautino's campaign account. Mautino, our current Auditor General, as in our top watchdog for financial accountability in the state, would cash a check at...
