SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - During routine COVID testing today a member of the Governor’s Office staff tested positive for COVID-19. This employee was NOT in close contact with the Governor today or in previous days. All staff members identified as a close contact will follow CDC...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - We recently wrote about the censorship Danville Mayor Rickey Williams initiated during Danville's April 6, 2021, Council meeting. Prior Restraint (telling someone they cannot say or print something in advance of publication or speech) is never a good idea and is frowned upon...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - Vermilion County Airport Authority Commissioner Steve Foster updated the Danville City Council on the Airport Authority, why he resigned from that office in August of 2018 (essentially admitting to what we wrote in our articles), certain disqualifications for that office, property taxes...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During the April 6, 2021 Danville City Council meeting, Mayor Rickey Williams lied to the public about Christopher Hansen prior to reading only the parts of Hansen's comment that Williams thought the public had a right to hear, damn the First Amendment...
DANVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - During the April 6, 2021, Danville, Illinois City Council Meeting, Mayor Rickey Williams, Jr., started public comment by lying about Christopher Hansen, the person who submitted a public comment to be read at the meeting. Danville's unreasonable public comment rule of submitting your...
Ashmore, IL. (ECWd) - Just inside the Coles County line, between Ashmore and Kansas, was an accident around 10 p.m. last night. It appears a vehicle hit a guardrail. We saw this on our way back from the Shelby County Board meeting. ...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Bailiff Rick Hoadley appears to have crossed the line with his recent communication to a County Official. According to the email we received this morning, Hoadley appears to think he has some type of authority to silence people in a County...
DuPage Township, IL. (ECWd) - DuPage Township's Human Resources employee, Amy A., submitted her resignation to DuPage Township officials this morning. She stated she her final date of employment was flexible to permit the township to find a replacement and to ensure a smooth transition....
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - A Petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court for Leave to Appeal from the Illinois Appellate Court yesterday. This is the lawsuit involving the City of Carlinville, another municipality, and a private company, opening up another private company for the purposes of contracting from the...
Illinois (ECWd) - Illinois Candidate for the United States Senate, Allison Salinas (Pekin, IL.), has been sued in Circuit Court, Fayette County, Illinois. The basics of this complaint is that the Salinas campaign employed campaign staff who they never paid, sold tickets to an event tp be...
