Coles Co - (ECWd) Today, we attended the case status hearing for Jerry Willison, former Oakland Fire Protection District Trustee and father of now convicted felon and former trustee Kiley Willison, who was sentenced last Friday as covered in this article. Of interest in today's hearing was...
Le Roy, Ill. (ECWd) - The "health emergency" that brought on masking and other things is long gone, except for Le Roy, Illinois. Le Roy is a small city with a population of around 3,500 people and is located in McLean County. On their meeting agenda is this...
Christian Co., Ill. (ECWd) - While we field numerous complaints about some alleged financial issues in the City of Assumption, Illinois, an alderman and city fire fighter and his wife, the city treasurer, get arrested and charged just after 2 am May 4th, 2025. Herbert Palmer was...
Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) - The Attorney General Public Access Office issued a determination noting that the Shelby County Public Safety Committee, which was chaired by the current county board chair, Tad Mayhall at the time, violated the Open Meetings Act. While Mayhall basically admitted the violation,...
Coles-Douglas Co. (ECWd) - The former Oakland Fire Protection District trustee, Kiley Willison, was sentenced today on a single Class 1 Felon charge while 10 other charges were dropped. This entire process, from our first Freedom of Information Act submission that resulted in the resignation of...
Sherman, Ill. (ECWd) - UPDATE: The Sherman Fire Protection District responded to our inquiry on whether they had policies permitting car detailing business in the district buildings. Fire Chief Todd Masterhan replied vie email: "We were not aware of the use of district property for this purpose. The volunteer...
Ford and Marion Counties, Ill. (ECWd) - Here is a no-brainer, and we are glad to see the issues were resolved by the respective boards when we brought it to their attention. As we have previously published, public bodies voting on anything via secret ballot violates the...
Chatham, Ill. (ECWd) - This is simply another example of government attorneys trying to figure out ways around the letter of the law, and in the end the only real losers are the taxpayers who paid for this ridiculous lawsuit. The Village of Chatham, located in Sangamon...
Grundy, Kendall, and Will Co. (ECWd) Yesterday, we published this article regarding the massive malfeasance that was taking place with the now-former Superintendent of the Grundy-Kendall Regional Office of Education. As referenced in that article, we were awaiting the response to a Freedom of Information Act...
Will, Grundy, and Kendall County Regional Offices of Education - (ECWd) - In 2023, we were provided key information alleging violations of law by numerous elected and public-employee individuals tied to the Regional Offices of Education ("ROE") for Will, Grundy, and Kendall Counties. This article was...
