Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - Update: Mugshots in follow-up article (here) Five Illinois Department of Corrections officers (Pontiac State Correctional Institution) found themselves locked up on the wrong side of the bars in McLean County after a wild night out-on-the-town. BLNNEWS (Diane Benjamin) was tipped about five Illinois Department...
McLean Co. (ECWd) - We ran our story on the City of Bloomington police coverup in this article. After that article published and the Mayor got called out during public comment by Diane Benjamin of BLNNews, the Mayor went on a rant that included lies, false...
U.S. (ECWd) - For years we have exposed public officials who have filed false statements of economic interest documents, and for years law enforcement and State's Attorneys have ignored the violation. Once again we see that the FBI has come to the rescue of Illinois citizens and...
Bolingbrook, IL. (ECWd) - At this week's DuPage Township Finance Committee meeting, former Supervisor Bill Mayer appeared to be worried about a W-2 he was given during his tenure as Supervisor. He spoke on the subject during public comment time. Listen to his threats to sue...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Northern District of Illinois FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 25, 2021 Consultant Indicted on Federal Charges for Allegedly Providing Bribes to City of Chicago Officials to Benefit Clients CHICAGO — A consultant has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly offering and...
Texas (ECWd) - Today's ruling coming out of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas states that the Federal Government does not possess the requisite powers to prohibit residential evictions. From the Opinion This lawsuit presents the question whether the federal government has authority to...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - Our response to Bloomington Mayor Renner's comments to Diane Benjamin's public comment at their City Council meeting: Here is Renner's response during public comment and Renner's radio interview, which prompted our response: ...
Illinois (ECWd) - The Illinois Department of Health and Family Services is now providing instruction on Unconscious Bias, Microaggression, Microinequities, Microinsults, Microassaults, and Microninvalidations. In promotion of the training, the director made a statement in her email to HFS personnel that clearly failed to recognize our history....
Bloomington, IL (ECWd) - After publishing this article, numerous outlets focused on the Mayor's response to a public comment made during the last city council meeting. We will provide a video update to those comments in an upcoming article. The following day the city manager was interviewed...
Melrose Park, IL. (ECWd) - This Complaint includes allegations of violations of the First and Fourth Amendments, targeted harassment, racist language used by the Mayor during public meeting, and excessive fines, among others (article contains vulgar language from the Complaint). On February 22, 2021, Plaintiffs (two 80...
