Orland Park, Illinois - (ECWd) - Director Mary Weimar at the Orland Park Public Library is at it again: once more buying an obscene amount of expensive gourmet jelly donuts from the Orland Park Bakery with funds that taxpayers naively believe the library ought to...
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LaSalle Co. (ECWd) - LaSalle County case 17CF15 has been filed against Pietro Mautino who is the son of Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino.  According to local reporting, court records show the alleged illegal possession of drugs took place in September of 2013. That...
LaSalle Co. (ECWd - In coordination with a LaSalle Co. Watchdog) - As of April 4th, last Tuesday, the City of LaSalle informed members of their police department that their K-9 Division was going to be terminated immediately. In an article posted online by the Newstribune it cites...
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, DEKALB, IL. (ECWd) - The Office of the Executive Inspector General ("OEIG") investigation of Northern Illinois University ("NIU") and its President, Douglas Baker, may have been wrapped up after more than 18 months - but the college is still paying legal fees, month after month, with no apparent...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Well, well, well...
McLean Co. (ECWd) - What we know: Allin Township has not provided all the ordinances requested, and the attorney has failed to respond to my specific request for Ordinance 13-8 and applicable approval minutes. By all indications, members of the Allin Township Fire Protection District Board of...
WHEELING, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has issued a determination stating that the Wheeling City Council violated the Open Meetings Act on  November 21, 2016 when it failed to follow its own written policy on public comment, which resulted in preventing a speaker from...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - One can only wonder why this Township can't seem to get things right as once again, they have failed to either read the law or follow it. What time can a Special Meeting be held in a Township? "Special township meetings may not begin...
Illinois (ECWd) - We broke the first story on the Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino as it related to questionable campaign spending at a single gas station and payments to Spring Valley Bank in this story back in January of 2016. A year after that story, the...
