feature

20 Apr Edgar Co. Local Governments owe the State over $166,000 in overpaid PPRT –

Posted at 22:30h in City of Paris, District 4 (Crestwood), District 95, Edgar County, Edgar County Assessor, Edgar County Board, Edgar County Housing Authority, Edgar County State's Attorney, feature, Kansas District 3, Kansas Township, Kansas Village Board, Metcalf, Paris Fire Department, PCHS, Redmon, School Boards, Shiloh by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 0 Comments

0 Likes

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,...

Read More

20 Apr Clark County Park District illegally paid workers for years –

Posted at 07:54h in Clark County, feature by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 1 Comment

0 Likes

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...

Read More

20 Apr Tinley Park removed Thomas Melody (Klein Thorpe Jenkins) as Village Attorney –

Posted at 06:44h in Cook County, feature, Tinley Park by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 2 Comments

0 Likes

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...

Read More

17 Apr DuPage County – ACT Initiative Failures Part II

Posted at 21:41h in DuPage County, feature, Wheaton Mosquito District by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 2 Comments

0 Likes

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...

Read More

17 Apr Costly Broken Wind Turbines Give College Whopping Negative 99.14% Return On Investment

Posted at 14:27h in Coles County, feature, Lakeland College, Mattoon, Vermilion County, Wind Turbine by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 38 Comments

0 Likes

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...

Read More

16 Apr Windsor, Il. Employee and Councilman Enter Guilty Pleas for Theft –

Posted at 22:23h in feature, Shelby County, Windsor by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 1 Comment

0 Likes

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...

Read More

16 Apr AG: Glen Ellyn PD must release Erin Birt’s arrest record –

Posted at 08:13h in College of DuPage, DuPage County, feature by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 4 Comments

0 Likes

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...

Read More

15 Apr College of DuPage – Take Chuck Currier’s shovel away!

Posted at 11:59h in College of DuPage, DuPage County, feature by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 4 Comments

0 Likes

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...

Read More

15 Apr Tinley Park Trustee T.J. Grady Calls Citizen a ‘Dick’ at Village Board Meeting (video) –

Posted at 11:33h in Cook County, feature, Tinley Park by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 5 Comments

0 Likes

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...

Read More

14 Apr Lincoln-Way District 210 – Students ARE relevant!

Posted at 13:07h in District 210, feature, Will County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 4 Comments

0 Likes

Will Co. (ECWd) - Below is the speech Jordan Pajeau read to the D210 School Board members during a recent Board of Education meeting.  It is clear this young student gets it!  The Board members of D210 should be ashamed of their actions and we...

Read More