BENTON, IL. (ECWd) - The City of Benton held a meeting on May 9, 2016, in which they appointed several new members to the Benton Airport Board. This comes on the heals of several resignations and expired terms in the past couple of months. Rocky Morris, Tommy Carter, and...
Edgar Co. (ECWd) - May 9th, 2016, the Edgar County Watchdogs, filed suit against the Illinois Arts Council Agency for allegedly violating the Freedom Of Information Act. This state agency is under the leadership of Shirley Madigan, who is listed as their Chair on the...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - After a three-and-a-half-year battle, the Edgar County Board, in April 2016, passed new Resolutions (here) setting forth the compensation of its elected officials. This new Resolution set forth, as required by law, all compensation received in connection with their service as...
Clark County, Illinois (ECWd) - "The Antithesis of an Ethics Commission" In yet another example of inept leadership at the Clark County Park District - this one can place at least part, if not all, of the blame on its attorney, Lorna Geiler. Wait, on second thought, she...
NIU (ECWd) - So far we’ve looked at numerous ways in which NIU President Baker and his Administration has violated, or at least has made a valiant attempt to violate, state procurement rules: using open orders, putting consultants on payroll, using Foundation funds to pay for...
DuPage County, IL. (ECWd) - The DuPage County Board held a meeting on May 10, 0216, and in a similar move we had previously witnessed in Edgar County (here), the DuPage County Board, with Dan Cronin as Chairman, passed an Ordinance purporting to "restate benefits" for...
“You don’t know how hard my job is, I didn’t ask for this job!” said Interum President Joe Collins...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Department of Financial and Profession Registration has revoked the Cosmetology License # 011-2981120, of Truc Pham, Paris, IL. due to his submission of fraudulent documents in his application for licensure. View all IDFPR disciplinary actions from its March 2016 report below: [gview file="http://www.idfpr.com/Forms/DISCPLN/2016_03enf.pdf"] . Please consider a donation...
CLARK CO., IL. (ECWd) - A few weeks ago we reported (here) on the Clark County Park District directing its attorney, Lorna Geiler, to use brown-shirt tactics to investigate a FOIA requester because they did not like what she wrote about the public records she received,...
CLARK CO., IL. (ECWd) - The Director of the Clark County Park District, who, according to district policy must reside within the boundaries of the district, recently filed her Statement of Economic Interest for 2016. Charity Murphy, once again, was not truthful on the SEI when it came...
