UPDATED – URGENT call to action – re: JCAR Meeting To Consider Enforcement and Fines!

08 Aug UPDATED – URGENT call to action – re: JCAR Meeting To Consider Enforcement and Fines!

Posted at 10:34h in feature, Governor, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Senate, Illinois State Representative, Illinois State Senate, IPDH, JB Pritzker by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 12 Comments

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Illinois (ECWd) - Update: Copy of the proposed Rules (click here and start on page 8) The JOINT COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE RULES has the power to stop the Administrative Rules being proposed which would permit police, state, and local health department to mandate "training, warnings, and fines...

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07 Aug IL State Rep Candidate Lisa Ciampoli Sued For False And Defamatory Statements –

Posted at 17:47h in feature, Madison County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 6 Comments

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Madison Co., IL. (ECWd) - Lisa Ciampoli Sued for False and Defamatory Statement Sent By Former Madison County IT Director Rob Dorman (See Documents attached) MARYVILLE - A lawsuit for more than $50,000 was filed by Former Madison County IT Director Rob Dorman against Republican State Representative Candidate Lisa...

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07 Aug Gov Pritzker Ordered to Appear in Clay County Court: Rule to Show Cause

Posted at 13:45h in Darren Bailey, feature, Governor by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 11 Comments

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CLAY CO., IL. (ECWd) - In an Order signed today (Bailey v Pritzker) by Clay County Circuit Judge McHaney, Governor Pritzker was Ordered to appear in Clay County Circuit Court on August 14, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. to show cause why he should not be held...

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07 Aug Gov Pritzker Announces New COVID Guidelines / Fines –

Posted at 09:46h in feature, Governor by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 22 Comments

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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...

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06 Aug Fox Run Restaurant Filed Suit Against Mayor Langfelder and City of Springfield –

Posted at 20:23h in Featured, Sangamon County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 4 Comments

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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...

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05 Aug BGA Prevails in Appellate Court: Private email accounts are not outside the scope of FOIA –

Posted at 18:08h in City of Chicago, Cook County, feature, Featured, Uncategorized by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 0 Comments

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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...

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05 Aug Illinois Governor Pritzker Facing Indirect Civil Contempt Motion Seeking He Be Placed In The County Jail

Posted at 10:57h in Governor by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 49 Comments

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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...

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05 Aug AG: IMEA Violated FOIA Law; Improperly Withheld Public Records –

Posted at 08:56h in Uncategorized by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 6 Comments

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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,...

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04 Aug Feds Indict Richard Simms, Former Kankakee River Metropolitan Agency Official; Alleged Two Million Dollar Fraud

Posted at 20:50h in Kankakee County, Uncategorized by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 2 Comments

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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...

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04 Aug Court Denied Carlinville’s Motion To Stay; Illinois Alluvial Not A Valid Corporation

Posted at 14:33h in feature, Featured, Macoupin County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 0 Comments

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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....

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