"The Girl Left Behind" The story of Kayla Mueller’s torture and death at the hands of ISIS is a devastating one. According to the NY Daily News, Kayla traveled to Aleppo, Syria, in 2013 with her boyfriend, Omar Alkhani, to help install hospital equipment. Alkhani was a contractor for...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - The Court heard Motions for Retrial yesterday in the case of Fred Cox, who was convicted by a jury last December, but whose sentencing was delayed due to inclement weather this past February, and delayed further when DNA results became available. We...
CHATHAM, IL. (ECWd) - Chatham Mayor Tom Gray, also President of the Illinois Municipal League, decided he didn't like a citizen telling him she would fire him if it were up to her. During the August 23, 2016 village board meeting, a resident told the board that...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - Does anyone at the Clark County Park District read the policy manual? I have, and when read in its entirety it becomes clear that policy means nothing to the Clark County Park District Board Members, Executive Director, and Board Attorney. Just a...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Public bodies in Illinois have an obligation to protect the taxpayer's money and ensure they follow the laws before them. Lincoln-Way D210 is now changing the way schools do business in Illinois. During last night's board meeting it was disclosed that the...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - We will take your taxes, but you are not good enough to work here In their usual form, the majority of the Board of Commissioners voted to allow their Director, who has violated district policy every single day she shows up at work,...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - Our radio interview Ben Yount and Andrew Nelms talking about the watchdog training coming up tomorrow (Aug 20, 2016) in Springfield. [audio mp3="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Il-Watchdog-Radio.mp3"][/audio] . Please consider a donation to the Edgar County Watchdogs. [wp_eStore_donate id=1] ....
Will Co. (ECWd) - Lincoln-Way D210 is facing an immediate emergency! Please someone, anyone, get over to that school and take their shovel away as they are going to bury themselves alive at this pace. Oh, wait, that actually may cure some of these events...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - We wrote in December 2015 about RIDES threatening a lawsuit (here) and explained the situation pretty thoroughly. RIDES-MTD filed the lawsuit a couple weeks ago. The bottom line is that you must follow the law when dissolving a mass transit district ("MTD"), the county...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - A vast majority of our time is spent researching public information to find deficiencies and violations of law. Once found we expose them and demand accountability to the law and correcting of deficiencies. In 2014, former Auditor General Holland's office published the...
