Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Board has been having regular budget meetings and it is clear they have a serious shortfall needing to be addressed. One suggestion was a 30% budget cut for all county offices. The last audit reflects the County spent $917,510.00 more than...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Former Springfield (Sangamon County) Mass Transit District facilities manager, Aaron Beck, charged with three felony counts of official misconduct and three felony counts of theft of government property. We wrote about his termination from the district in September 2019 (read it here). We know...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We first reported on Shelby County Corrections Officer Christopher Zakowski DUI arrest in this article. We have now obtained the arrest report and first want to thank the arresting officer for doing the very job he took an oath to perform. Officer...
Kendall Co. (ECWd) - The Parkview Christian Academy can now take credit, through their attorney Thomas DeVore of Silver Lake Group Ltd., for educating more Illinois state actors. In this case, the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Public Health have been...
Will Co. (ECWd) - John Norton, former appointed Wesley Township Highway Commissioner was issued a Restraining Order last October and is now attempting to have it vacated through a bogus Emergency Motion. There is no emergency. Contained within his motion to the court are several lies, which...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Corrections Officer Christopher Zakowski was arrested for DUI in Moweaqua, Illinois June 4, 2020, at 11:58 pm. We submitted a request for the actual police report and the video of the stop, however, those requests have not been fulfilled as of...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - The Village of Orland Park has taken to banning people from its Twitter page, which is a direct violation of the United States Constitution and flies in the face of recent United States Appeals Court decisions on public officials and public...
Will County, IL. (ECWd) - During the fourth day of the Will County Officers Electoral Board Hearing, on June 22, 2020, the Board upheld the objection to the Republican State's Attorney Candidate and voted to not place the candidate's name on the ballot for the upcoming...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker exempted local governments from Executive Order number 38. This was the EO placing Illinois in Phase 3, dated May 29, 2020, which contains the following provisions: For individuals: practice social distancing wear face covering in public when unable to maintain six...
United States - (ECWd) - For weeks the public has been told the appropriate authorities cleared John Bolton's manuscript for publication, however, we now know that was a lie. This is yet another example of absolutely pathetic reporting. Bolton not only never received any authorization clearing...
