Will Co. (ECWd) - We covered the Township Clerk's alleged violation of the Township Violence Policy which resulted in her being banned from going to the Road District office in this article. That incident dealt with verbal screaming and attempted intimidation of Road District staff. It...
Joliet Township (ECWd) - We believe the Joliet Township Clerk was compensated in excess of the lawful Compensation setting resolution in the amount of $133,888.00 for the term of office starting in May of 2013 and ending in May of 2017. Compensation of elected officials in Illinois...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Charge people to park on your property? You must register with the State of Illinois by January 1, 2020, and you must pay an excise tax. Failure to do so is a Class A Misdemeanor. The tax is 6% or 9% depending on...
Pecatonica Township (ECWd) - At the November meeting of the Pecatonica Township Board of Trustees, one of the issues I presented the Board was the illegal use of public property of the Township Road District. Prior to the meeting, I drove by the Road District building and...
McHenry County, IL. (ECWd) - We were sent this file which appears to be a McHenry County Sheriff's Deputy intimidating a grieving mother for a Facebook post and text message she sent regarding the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. The Mother was still grieving the loss...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Joliet Township Clerk Beth Ann May has been instructed to stay away from the Road District and to avoid all contact with Road District Staff due to a workplace violence incident. The Township employee handbook defines violence as follows: “Violence" includes physically harming another,...
Pecatonica Township (ECWd) - We understand that the Pecatonica Township Attorney John Nelson, and/or Supervisor Musso, tried to claim that the letter from the Attorney General basically endorsed their banning of a critic from three consecutive meetings. They are wrong. What was "endorsed" was only the process of...
Will Co. (ECWd) - We recieved a credible tip regarding two past Joliet Township board members, Robert Wisniewski and Jeffery Wallace. We were told a plan was discussed to convince them to not run again by appointing Wisniewski to be the Road District Attorney and Wallace...
Pecatonica Township (ECWd) - This is an examination of a township's powers, or lack thereof, to enact a Resolution banning certain people from attending meetings and banning people from township property. First and foremost, Dillon's Rule applies to Townships as it does to all other non home...
Pecatonica Township (ECWd) - This article will place Pecatonica Township's Public Comment Policy on a timeline to better understand steps taken to limit free speech at public meetings, and to lay out the factual case that banishment from meetings is not, and never has been, a...
