ILLINOIS (ECWd) - The following are two separate observations of state government actors from the month of July 2021. First, when long-time, high ranking members of the Illinois State Police, in official state police vehicles, think they can drive down the interstate at between 85 and 90...
Will Co. (ECWd) - During the August 1, 2021 hearing related to asset discovery, Wesley Township gadfly and former appointed highway commissioner John Norton once again showed the court he is both ignorant and has no problem lying to the court. Let's break some if it down: THE...
U.S. (ECWd) - On June 29, 2021, the US Supreme Court issued an order limiting the CDC's authority to issue an eviction moratorium. See order from US Supreme Court concurring opinion issued by Justice Kavanaugh, making it very clear that any extension of the eviction moratorium...
Will Co, (ECWd) - Local gadfly and former Wesley Township highway commissioner was graced with a stay to his jail sanction for two more weeks at yesterday's hearing. As we covered in this article, Norton was ordered to produce certain records by 1:30 pm yesterday.  While...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - On July 30, 2021, Illinois Attorney General Raoul issued a press release warning the public of of spoofed emails allegedly coming from his office. In the press release, he states: "The Attorney General’s office is not using the atg.state.il.us domain name and is...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - July 30, 2021 ***CONSUMER ALERT*** ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL WARNS PUBLIC OF SPOOFED ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE EMAILS Chicago — Attorney General Kwame Raoul is urging people to be on the lookout for scam emails claiming to come from his office. The Attorney General’s office has received...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Today, Governor Pritzker signed HB 633, "The Garden Act" to protect the right to grow vegetables in a garden on residential property. Apparently some municipalities have attempted to regulate gardens to the point where they cannot exist. This Act stops that practice. HB 633 preempts...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Willmington gadfly and former appointed Wesley Township Highway Commissioner John Norton is facing a jail sanction for failing to comply with the court's orders dealing with a citation to discover assets. Norton's propensity to lie before the courts is probably the only consistent...
Charleston, IL. (ECWd) - We recently wrote about the Coles County State's Attorney's Office Assistant Rhonda Parker using official envelopes and postage for private lawsuit (here), and questioned why a thorough investigation was not completed. Now we have proof that not only were official email accounts, envelopes...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - Update on the Conan McArthur case: An initial hearing was held this morning, with Judge Garst presiding: Defendant present in custody. Charge, penalties and rights explained. Upon stipulation Mr McGrath appointed Public Defender. By agreement continued to August 16, 2020, at 1:30 p.m....
