Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - UPDATED Governor Pritzker announced (read it here) that the IDPH is issuing new emergency rules to assist in enforcing the mask and distancing rules for businesses with three steps: First, businesses will be given a warning in the form of written notice and...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Fox Run Restaurant filed a lawsuit in Sangamon County Circuit Court today naming the City of Springfield and Mayor James Langfelder as defendants. The Complaint is against the city's "Emergency Ordinance(s)" and the Mayor's statutory authority to extend Executive Orders past 7 days...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - The Better Government Association, thru its attorneys Josh Burday, Matt Topic and Merrick Wayne of Loevy & Loevy, prevailed in the Appellate Court today against the Office of Mayor of the City of Chicago, and the Chicago Public Health Department in a...
Clay County, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is now facing an Indirect Civil Contempt Motion in the Darren Bailey lawsuit to include a request he be placed in custody in the county jail. The motion is based on the fact the Governor has ignored the...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - More than six years ago, July 30, 2014 to be exact, I submitted a request for public records to the Illinois Municipal Electric Agency ("IMEA") asking for certain items identifying contractors, payments, receipts, electric rates charged to others, and more. On September 15,...
KANKAKEE, IL. (ECWd) - The United States Attorney for the Central District of Illinois has published an indictment against Richard Simms, a former official at the Kankakee River Metropolitan Agency (KRMA), alleging two million dollars in fraud. If you wonder how such an alleged fraud can...
Carlinville, IL. (ECWd) - After Ordering Carlinville to cease working with Illinois Alluvial Regional Water Company and declaring IARWC a VOID Corporation because it was formed in violation of the law, Carlinville filed for a Motion to Stay the order pending appeal to the Appellate Court....
Montgomery County, IL. (ECWd) - Last week, the Montgomery County Circuit Court DENIED DeVore's Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in relation to the Illinois State High School Association's "guidelines" in returning to school and participating in sports. This was a summary hearing, in which the Court found: ...
Will Co., IL. (ECWd) - Local gadfly John Norton, filed for an Emergency Order of Protection this morning demanding that the ECWd, Kraft and Allen, be prohibited from attending court hearings unless we were named in the case. The Court pronounced the Motion was STRICKEN from the...
Will Co., IL. (ECWd) - In Will County Court this morning, John Norton appeared in person and was immediately drilled by the Court for attending in person. Norton responded by saying he doesn't have electronic access to attend Court electronically, neither by computer nor by smartphone. This...
