Will Co. (ECWd) - Joliet Township Supervisor Dan Vera has a laundry list of questionable activities during his reign as Supervisor of Joliet Township, ranging from ghost contracting, ignoring bidding laws for services, to trying to take over an entire separate public body and then transfer...
MATTOON, IL. (ECWd) - In January 2020, the City of Mattoon appointed Mr. Mark Nelson as Commissioner to the Coles County Airport Authority. Immediately after that meeting, I questioned Mattoon's Mayor and their attorney on the appointment and informed them that the appointment was invalid because Nelson...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Below is the full video of the Shelby County Board Meeting held on February 13th, 2020, at the Lake Shelbyville Visitors Center. It may well be the longest County Board meeting Shelby County has ever had. . Our work is funded entirely thru donations and...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Representative Gong-Gershowitz's House Bill 5170 would prohibit insurance sales to Illinois gun owners who would like to insure against rogue police and prosecutor's investigation, indictment, and prosecution of any criminal charge arising out of the use of a firearm (See page 18,...
Springfield (ECWd) - First, they want to prohibit you from pumping your own gas. Then they want to ban your gas-powered leaf blower. And just when you think they can't get any crazier, they now intend on infringing on people's constitutional rights, however, this one...
Springfield (ECWd) - As if the Illinois Legislature has nothing better to do...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - On December 26, 2015, Dee Burgin, in his employment as an Edgar County Deputy Sheriff, entered the home of a local farmer, Charlie Barrett, without a warrant and after Mr. Barrett clearly told him to get out. Under the law, Mr. Barrett’s...
Pecatonica, IL. (ECWd) - As I predicted during the January 2020 Pecatonica Township meeting, all charges against Rogene Hamilton, who was arrested for attending the township public meeting, were dismissed on Motion by the State. The majority of the Trustees in Pecatonica Township has spent the past...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois State Senator Bill Cunningham has introduced a new gas tax bill in the Senate. Senate Bill 2978, filed on February 4, 2020, seeks to permit all municipalities to impose a new municipal motor fuel tax (gas tax)Â in one-cent increments, not to...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - As we have outlined in several articles here, here, here, and here, the Shelby County board violated the law when they appointed a "Special" Assistant State's Attorney back in 2014. Even after all the substantial evidence that they did violate the law, the...
