DuPage Township, IL. (ECWd) - In the interest of full disclosure of DuPage Township candidates for office among all of the false allegations and insinuations leveled by Bolingbrook's new conspiracy theorist (if you don't think like her you are a domestic terrorist), we will research candidates...
Bolingbrook, IL. (ECWd) - B.L.U.F. ("Bottom Line Up Front"): The township clerk did not properly notify the Democrat and Republican Parties of the upcoming Lottery to determine ballot position, as required under the Illinois Election Code. The lottery was held, and at the lottery, several people from the...
Joliet, IL. (ECWd) - The Joliet Park District released a statement today, which according to the Patch, include "revealing that certain potential financial improprieties by a former employee are now under investigation by the Joliet Police Department. "It was a large, large sum. It's thousands, not...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Update: Corrected to eliminate reference to "A Fractional CFO" as the alleged "Company A". The Plainfield Township Supervisor Anthoney Fremarek is facing a 6 count Federal Indictment. According to the indictment docket, Fremarek has been charged with the following in part: Count 1...
Will County, IL. (ECWd) - Yesterday, January 11, 2021, Will County Circuit Court Judge John C. Anderson granted, in part, our Motion for Summary Judgment and ordered the Will County Sheriff's Department to either release the 911 recordings after disguising the voice, or to provide a...
Will Co. (ECWd) - A recent ruling in a McHenry County Township case may become problematic for DuPage Township and their administrator, Linda Youngs. We first wrote about the administrator making a change to the levy that was approved by the Board in this article. With...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Yesterday we published this article confirming the ongoing criminal investigation of the former DuPage Township Supervisor Bill Mayer. In that article we noted that the Village of Bolingbrook had not complied with our FOIA request. This morning the City of Bolingbrook responded. Within...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Earlier, we confirmed the FBI had taken over the Bolingbrook Police Department's investigation of alleged criminal activity by former DuPage Township Supervisor Bill Mayer and published this article on that fact in September. As we stated in that article, the Federal authorities...
Will Co. (ECWd) - The DuPage Township Supervisor and two trustees, Oliver and Burgess, approved the township tax levy over the objections of two other trustees, Benford and Raga during the last board meeting (video here). Benford went into great detail, to include providing a PowerPoint...
Joliet, IL. (ECWd) - We have written about this several times over the past few years, but we always find another one. We call on the Joliet Park District Board of Commissioners to immediately amend its Board Manual to eliminate ALL "Commissioner Privileges", as any alleged privileges...
