Grundy-Kendall Counties, Ill. (ECWd) – This is part 3 in a series of articles on the Will County and Grundy-Kendall Counties Regional Offices of Education. Read parts 1 and 2. This article will discuss the alleged scheme and artifice to qualify for the Illinois Municipal Retirement System...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR), has determined the Shelby County farm ground parcels are not tax-exempt. Their determination was based on the assertion the property is not in exempt use. According to IDOR, the county can protest the determination and request a...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - A recent vote to release closed session minutes of the County Board disclosed a lot of information that refutes the narrative being pushed by members of the Dive Team and a few of their supporters. While the closed session minutes shed new...
Coles Co. (ECWd) - Coles County has been facing a lawsuit for the county board's hiring of a private appraiser to perform commercial property tax assessments in the county. There is no provision in the law for a county board to hire such a person which...
Tazewell County, Ill. (ECWd) - We surveyed the various counties purporting to lease county-owned farm ground, which were named in a newspaper article written about the Shelby County Farm. Each county listed in that article received a Freedom of Information Act request from us asking for...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Board member Teresa Boehm was the subject of a quo-warranto filing due to accepting a position on the Rose Township cemetery board, which we covered in this article. During the last county board meeting a public comment was made wrongly claiming...
Nameoki Township, Madison County, Ill. (ECWd) - Public records of a public body are considered true and correct copies of originals and are able to be relied upon as true and correct. Apparently not the case in Nameoki Township, where public comments revealing records provided by the...
Macoupin County, Ill. (ECWd) - We surveyed the various counties purporting to lease county-owned farm ground, which were named in a newspaper article written about the Shelby County Farm. Each county listed in that article received a Freedom of Information Act request from us asking for...
Logan County, Ill. (ECWd) - We surveyed the various counties purporting to lease county-owned farm ground, which were named in a newspaper article written about the Shelby County Farm. Each county listed in that article received a Freedom of Information Act request from us asking for...
Grundy-Kendall Counties, Ill. (ECWd) - This is part 2 in a series of articles on the Will County and Grundy-Kendall Counties Regional Offices of Education. Read the first article (here). This article will discuss the following allegation: “From its inception, we believe the PDA and its contract...
