Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - From the Institute For Justice: Press Release    |   February 8, 2021 Nick Sibilla Writer & Legislative Analyst Late last week, Rep. Sonya Harper filed the Illinois Vegetable Garden Protection Act (HB 633), which would preserve and protect the right of all Illinoisans to “cultivate vegetable gardens...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - Scott Barrett, Director of the Edgar County Housing Authority, informed us today that the Illinois State Treasurer's office sent the ECHA a check for their unclaimed funds listed in the Treasurer's unclaimed funds database. After we notified him of the ECHA's name being...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We have been covering the Shelby County farm lease and taxation issue for over a year with this article being the first of several articles. As outlined in this article, the State's Attorney has asked the Illinois Attorney General for a legal...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County State's Attorney, Nichole Kroncke, has asked the Illinois Attorney General for their legal opinion on several matters dealing with public property and tax obligations for both the city and the County. Letter 1, Letter 2. While we greatly appreciate the...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County Board illegally hired a private attorney back in 2014 and continued paying for those services for years. When the County Treasurer could not get an answer to the legality of paying for those legal bills she refused to pay...
Bolingbrook, IL. (ECWd) - UPDATE: Updated to reflect that Williams DID NOT go to D.C. as we previously reported. After watching the excellent and truthful video of South Carolina's first Black Lieutenant Governor talking about a racist cartoon depicting the state's first Black Lt. Gov. and a...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - According to a sworn declaration in the Federal court case involving the College of DuPage and its former president, Dr. Robert Breuder, former College of DuPage Trustee Dianne McGuire has leaked privileged information to Cory Atkinson, also a former COD trustee and...
DuPage Township, IL. (ECWd) - In our continuing series on DuPage Township Candidates, this one is to clear up all of the false accusations made against the current Trustee, and Candidate for Trustee, Dennis Raga. In several posts, a woman in Florida has blasted Raga for an...
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...
