EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - In our continued efforts to provide absolute truth to our readers, we must once again point out inaccuracies in how a certain local publication prints quotes by Farnham, Edgar County Board Member, without fact-checking them. The quote used was in relation to the...
Edgar County, IL. (ECWd) - The local governments in Edgar County owed the State of Illinois a total of $166,119.51 in overpayments the state made with the personal property replacement tax back in 2014. A list of all Edgar County overpayments are below, with the School Districts,...
CLARK COUNTY, IL. (ECWd) - Amazing things happen when you sit down and read the laws applicable to the local government that you are a board member of. This simple concept is foreign to Ron Stone, Joe Ewing, Glen Kuehnel, Terry Stepp, and their attorney, Lorna...
TINLEY PARK, IL. (ECWd) - At the 4/19/16 Village of Tinley Park Board Meeting, Thomas Melody of Klein Thorpe Jenkins was removed as the Village Attorney and replaced by Patrick Connelly, of the firm Peterson Johnson Murray. This followed Item #26 on the agenda and a...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - During our past investigation into DuPage County local government, we exposed clear Open Meetings and Freedom of Information Act violations and reported on them in this article and began our multi-part series on each public body violating OMA and FOIA with...
Mattoon, IL - Lake Land College - Costly Broken Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment Posted By Andrew Follett On 1:32 PM 04/12/2016 In | [caption id="attachment_29812" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo from original article (link at bottom)[/caption] Lake Land College recently announced plans to tear down...
Windsor, IL. (ECWd) - What follows is a true story of a City Councilman hiring his wife to work for the city, allowing her to charge fuel to her personal car to the city, and then she falsifies time cards to purchase gift cards for her...
Glen Ellyn - College of DuPage - Twenty-one months after the Glen Ellyn Police Department improperly redacted information Kirk Allen requested, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor finally made a determination. On April 13, 2016, the AG's PAC determined that the Glen Ellyn Police Department's redaction of...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Easter Sunday we exposed the records destruction practices going on at the College of DuPage in this article. We then followed up with a more targeted exposure of the COD Information Technology Administrator, Chuck Currier, and his confusion of the law pertaining...
TINLEY PARK, IL. (ECWd) - During the April 5, 2016, Tinley Park City Council meeting, Trustee T.J. Grady decided he didn't like the comments from a person speaking during the allotted public comment time. A citizen was commenting and asking questions in an attempt at figuring out...
