Country Club Hills, IL. (ECWd) - The Village of Country Club Hills has been giving taxpayer monies to a now-defunct, illegitimate nonprofit "Country Club Hills Chamber of Commerce" whose registration with the Secretary of State was involuntarily dissolved on March 8, 2019, and its 501(c) status...
Illinois (ECWd) - From day one of Governor Pritzker's Executive Orders he has made claims which are simply false. For example, as we exposed in this article, his first Executive Order related to COVID 19 had nothing to do with protecting the health and safety of...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - The Watseka Police Chief Jeremy Douglas is tangled in a web of actions that raise numerous concerns for the rule of law in Watseka.  The fact he is still the Police Chief makes us wonder what the Mayor and City Council was...
U.S. (ECWd) - Fourteen states filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction against US President Donald Trump and the Director of the US Postal Service. The filing was in the US District Court, Eastern District of Washington on August 18, 2020. The court granted a nation-wide Preliminary...
Lena, IL. (ECWd) - The Village of Lena, Illinois is a small municipality of around 2,900 residents and is located in Stephenson County. It is well-known that public officials and public bodies cannot pass resolutions or ordinances which violate state law or the constitution. Apparently, the Village...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - On September 16, 2020, the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor ("PAC") determined that the Village of Orland Park violated the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") by improperly responding to a request for public records seeking a list of all persons/user names...
Madison County, IL. (ECWd) - Newly released emails from 2007 - 2016 suggest that several former employees and elected officials within the Madison County government were using official government email, while at work on government time, for electioneering purposes. One of those emails, from "Boobie" even asks...
Shelbyville, IL. (ECWd) - We attended the Shelby County Airport Board Meeting yesterday, Sep 14, 2020. The main topics we brought up were the following: Which county airport statute is this airport governed under? There are three possible answers, each with their own powers and responsibilities, they...
Avon, IL. (ECWd) - Avon Township Supervisor Terry Wilke used township funds, credit, and property for his own personal financial gain by purchasing a vehicle using township funds (and the purchase declined by the board), installing an electric vehicle charging station with public funds, using public...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - During yesterday's meeting, Shelby County Board member Bobby Orman raised concerns over the payment to the auditor for a contract never presented to the board. We obtained the contract today, and let's just say every board member who voted to keep Chairman Cannon...
