Sangamon, Co. (ECWd) - A letter from the US Environmental Protection Agency dated December 22nd, 2016 has confirmed that a complaint against the South Sangamon Water Commission has been forwarded to the US EPA Criminal Investigation Division, Region 5, in Chicago, IL. We will post...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - Matt Mau is currently a Village of Chatham Trustee and currently asking the voters for their support for his run for Mayor. In light of all the problems we have exposed with the Village of Chatham, we felt it necessary to address the...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - In yet another example of why Village of Chatham Clerk Pat Schad must resign, we need only look at his mission statement and responsibilities listed on the Village website "MISSION STATEMENT Promote open and responsive government through proper recording of village business and...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - I first exposed the violations of election law by authorities of the Village of Chatham in this article. During the regular meeting on Tuesday the 27th, I asked for the village clerk's resignation during public comment where I addressed the violations...
CHATHAM, IL. (ECWd) - The Village of Chatham held a regular meeting last night and voted to censure their Mayor, Tom Gray, for his obscene gesture of flipping the bird to a citizen during an ethics commission hearing of an ethics complaint against him. It was a...
Chatham, IL. (ECWd) - If we can't trust our electoral process and those in charge of it then we are doomed as a civil society. Laws are in place to protect our rights and when those in charge violate those laws we move further and further...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - The Village of Chatham Ethics Commission held their second meeting today regarding bird finger-flipping Mayor Gray. The commission found no evidence to support any ethics violations listed in the first complaint by Jewel Brant, however, her amended complaint hit it out...
Sangamon, Co. (ECWd) - After several years of attending Chatham board meetings, I have truly never seen anything like this. The citizens have worked tirelessly to find that the municipal bonds that were sold from South Sangamon Water Commission (SSWC) did not reflect the true amount...
CHATHAM, IL. (ECWd) - Chatham Mayor Tom Gray, also President of the Illinois Municipal League, decided he didn't like a citizen telling him she would fire him if it were up to her. During the August 23, 2016 village board meeting, a resident told the board that...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - The very first meeting we attended for the Village of Chatham was rather comical as it was not posted in accordance with the Open Meetings Act, which we covered in this article. We found the failure to post the agenda...
