LaSalle Co. (ECWd) - It appears others are taking interest in the questionable financial habits of LaSalle County State's Attorney. A Petition to Appoint a Special Prosecutor was filed today by attorney Julie Ajster. A copy of the petition can be viewed and downloaded below. It...
Edgar Co. (ECWd) - The Daily Herald ran a story about the Millions being spent on attorneys by our school districts. They included a couple of quotes for the piece that we felt must be addressed as facts are important as is knowledge of misinformation. “Adam Andrzejewski,...
TERRE HAUTE, IN. (ECWd) - According to WTHI-TV (article here): An investigation is underway after police say 30-100 shots were fired at the National Guard Armory on Maple Avenue in Terre Haute. It happened just after midnight on Sunday morning. Police were initially called to the armory after receiving...
JACKSONVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - After the article we published yesterday (with incriminating video) concerning the apparent Gray Noll campaign event held in the concession stand of the local school district, Morgan County's appointed State's Attorney Gray Noll has scrubbed his campaign Facebook page of all evidence...
ORLAND PARK, IL. (ECWd) - The Orland Park History Museum, which opened this past April in the former red-brick Village Hall building in Orland Park, has accepted into its archive collection a book that was banned by the Orland Park Public Library (OPPL), despite book-banning being...
JACKSONVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During Friday night's football game at School District 117, the Gray Noll Campaign, which included Morgan County State's Attorney Gray Noll, and Assistant Morgan County State's Attorney Chad Turner, "manned" the concession stand in Gray Noll campaign t-shirts. This, in our opinion, is...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - According to a United States Department of Justice Press Release, dated September 8, 2016, Roy Collin, former director of the Kankakee Valley Park District, was charged with defrauding the Park District. Former Executive Director of Kankakee Valley Park District Charged with Fraud Scheme Springfield, Ill....
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - On August 27, 2016, Gary Henry reported that Robert Howrey stated "IDOT estimates approximately half of the county-owned airports in Illinois are not zoned." He also stated "IDOT was not willing to acknowledge de facto zoning existed because of FAA rules, which...
LaSalle Co. (ECWd) - We recently exposed LaSalle County SAFE officer for holding himself out as an FBI Agent, which he is not. Coverage of that situation and the video can be found in this article. After that coverage, a flurry of Facebook posts followed...
The Illinois Metropolitan Investment Fund ran into trouble a couple years ago when one of the funds they invested in fraudulently squandered the public funds. Initially, the estimate of recovery of funds was believed to be somewhere above 80%, but was later downgraded to 47.6% of the...
