SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - When an agency is given tax payer money under the Governor's Neighborhood Recovery Initiative (NRI) and Illinois Violence Prevention Authority (IVPA) it's done with obligations by those receiving the funds. It is also supposed to have oversight by those giving the money! In...
SPRINGFIELD, IL (ECWd) - Just when you think you have seen it all, another "spectacular" event shows itself as it relates to the Governor's anti-violence program Co-Chaired by Attorney General Lisa Madigan. I can only assume Rich Miller with Capital Fax is either asleep at the...
Springfield, IL (ECWd) - As reported in the Chicago Sun Times, Jaclin Davis, spouse of state Rep. Will Davis, D-Homewood, represented 11 percent of the anti-violence grant dollars her employer, Healthcare Consortium of Illinois, was allotted in 2011 and 2012 under Quinn’s program. (Click here for...
SPRINGFIELD, IL (ECWd) - After reading Rich Millers article on Capital Fax 2 days ago I realized the importance of keeping it simple. In the article he points out that no "smoking gun" has been uncovered showing "any illegal political actions by top-level Quinn administration officials...
SPRINGFIELD, IL (ECWd) - Attorney General Lisa Madigan was the Co-Chair of Governor Pat Quinn's Illinois Violence Prevention Authority (IVPA), which means she was a key player in the actions taken by that group, and I think most will agree has some explaining to do based...
SPRINGFIELD, IL (ECWd) - Rest assured, the title is not a typo. Recently reviewed records pertaining to the Anti Violence Program, which has now become a major campaign problem for Governor Quinn, reveal the so called "anti"- violence program fell well short of ensuring a decrease...
CHICAGO, IL. (ECWd) - From the Better Government Association's Action Center: The Better Government Association is asking Gov. Pat Quinn to protect the people’s right to know by vetoing HB 3796, a recently passed bill that unfairly and unjustifiably raises significant barriers to everyday people getting access...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Governor Pat Quinn's appointee, Eric E. Gregg (Bio here), current Illinois Prisoner Review Board Member (IPRB) and former Mayor of Harrisburg, IL. has taken to acting like a criminal lately by issuing threats to local businesses for exercising their right to sell...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - House Bill 3796 was an amendment to the Freedom Of Information Act, which makes a whole new category of FOIA requestors. This bill does not affect us or other non-profit, news media, etc, organizations but it does effect the average citizen that...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - When Governor Pat Quinn set out to hide public records, it created an extraordinary situation where State employees refused public records requests from State Representative Dwight Kay (R), 112th District, Glen Carbon, IL. He has filed a civil suit in Sangamon County...
