Veterans Assistance Commission of Will County, IL. (ECWd) – We first exposed alleged Commissioner Denise Williams' false and misleading comments during the last meeting in this article. After listening to it again, we must thank her for exposing yet more problems with the insider no-bid contract...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - In February of 2021, Shelby County State's Attorney Nichole Kroncke asked the Attorney General for a Special Prosecutor to review and possibly prosecute a financial case of alleged theft of public funds and official misconduct by the Shelby County Highway Engineer, Alan...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - We finally obtained a copy of the settlement agreement in the lawsuit where Senator Michael Hastings was sued, along with the Illinois Senate, for discrimination and harassment against Cassandra Matz, a former employee of Sen. Hastings. In the settlement agreement, Hastings and the Senate deny...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - UPDATE: Meeting postponed until Sep 1st. Shelby County will hold a special meeting Tuesday the 30th of August at 9 a.m. in Courtroom B. (Agenda at this link) We refer to the budget as the elected official's contract with the people, which in Shelby...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Wesley Township has been fighting a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit since 2019 in which the former clerk admitted she was not going to provide the requested records in her Affidavit. During the hearing for a Summary Judgement yesterday, the attorneys went back...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - While the City of Shelbyville did the right thing during their last meeting and did not implement the proposed standard of care document which basically eliminated any competition to Abbot Ambulance, the RFP issued does exactly that. During the meeting, the city council,...
Poplar Grove, IL. (ECWd) - Owen Costanza is the former Mayor of Poplar Grove, Illinois, a former Precinct Committeeman and former Boone County Republican Party Chairman. He was voted out of both offices at their most recent elections. After losing the mayoral election, Costanza decided it might be...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - Paris, Illinois had two structure fires overnight within blocks of each other. One in the 800 block of Maple Street, the other on Browning Street, just off of Maple. The first fire on Browning (click for google photo) was a house and it was...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - While the Shelby County Board pays a company to basically point out how many different problems they have, which included adding more problems to be solved during last night's meetings, we sit back and have to laugh because we have been pointing...
Wheeling, IL. (ECWd) - Several years ago, I sent a Freedom of Information Act request for text messages from a certain Wheeling police officer for two days of time periods he was attending court to observe, and possibly intimidate, a woman charged with a criminal trespass...
