Champaign Co. (ECWd) - Mahomet Township Highway Commissioner Chris Doenitz appears to have failed to file the required Statement of Economic Interest document as an elected official for years. Those SEI filings are required at the time of the election and every year in office. According...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - The full text of the Illinois gun ban is below. Anything that is underlined is NEW language in the law. Please read it as some provisions have already taken effect and some ("high capacity" magazine) are effective in 90 days from its signing. The only...
Champaign County (ECWd) - Edited to correct spelling mistakes. An article published today in the News Gazzette has now exposed some of the behind-the-scenes things going on in Mahomet Township. Several months ago we attended our first Mahomet Township board meeting for the purpose of raising some concerns...
Madison Co., IL. (ECWd) - During the November 2022 meeting of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Madison County's "Executive Committee" the VAC Superintendent tendered votes on Motions as if he were actually a board member (see video below). This type of thing can never happen in a...
Illinois (ECWd) - Once again we find the Illinois Senate has pulled a bait and switch on legislation in the closing hours of their term. House Bill 5471 was introduced as an Insurance Code and Public Adjusters bill back in January of 2022. Senate President Don Harmon...
Illinois (ECWd) - We covered the legislative bait and switch going on regarding wind and solar matters in this article just yesterday. Specifically, this new legislation, if approved by the house and signed by the Governor would strip local control from county governments when it comes...
Kansas, IL. (ECWd) - We previously wrote about the Kansas Township Supervisor's admission to the Attorney Gerneral's Public Access Counselor that the township did hold a special meeting on Columbus Day, a holiday, in violation of the Open Meetings Act. The AG-PAC took less than a month...
Madison Co., IL. (ECWd) - During the December 2022, meeting of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Madison County, their attorney, Thomas Burkart, made several statements concerning the authority of the Executive "Board" - which is actually a committee, or subsidiary body, of the Commission. Later during the...
Poplar Grove, IL. (ECWd) - Owen Costanza, former Poplar Grove Village President who still passes himself off as Village President on Facebook, filed two sets of election petitions for Trustee of Poplar Grove, IL. He withdrew the "2-year unexpired" set of petitions and left his "4-year unexpired,...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County States Attorney Nichole Kroncke tendered her resignation letter on December 29, 2022, indicating an effective date of January 31st, 2023. According to the letter she is resigning to take on a state job with the Illinois State's Attorneys Appellate...
