DuPage Township, Ill. (ECWd) - DuPage Township (Will County) owns and maintains two cemeteries, Alexander in Romeoville, and Boardman in Bolingbrook. The DuPage Township democrats have placed (or permitted one to remain) a campaign sign on the iron fence of Alexander Cemetery. The sign was recently updated...
Pecatonica, Ill. (ECWd) - PRESS RELEASE:Â Pecatonica Township and Candidates Win Lawsuit Against Township Clerk Kelly Olson-Fuca On March 10, 2025, Winnebago County Chief Judge Lisa Fabiano ruled in favor of Pecatonica Township, Pecatonica Township Officers Electoral Board, and Candidates, Gregory Deppe and Thomas Menge in their...
Springfield, Ill. (ECWd) - UPDATE: Edited to replace "Champaign County" with "Sangamon County" According to the Veterans Assistance Commission of Sangamon County, this is what lead up to the VAC filing suit against the county: the Veterans Assistance Commission of Sangamon County (VACSC) submitted its certified budget...
Rockford, Ill. (ECWd) - The Illinois Military Veterans Assistance Act was recently amended to mandate funding for county Veterans Assistance Commissions ("VAC") by each county through a tax levy or other means. Section 2(1) of the Act states, in part:Â . . . the county board shall...
Pecatonica Township, Ill. (ECWd) - This morning a Winnebago County Judge ordered all candidates for elected offices in Pecatonica Township to be placed on the ballot. Within the order, the judge stated the township clerk was “terribly misguided,” acted arbitrarily and abused her discretion. We will provide the...
Pecatonica Township, Ill. (ECWd) - While listening to Friday's court hearing in Winnebago County related to the Pecatonica Township Clerk's decertification of certain candidates, it was clear to us that this type of issue needs legislative intervention. The question needing addressed in the legislature is "at what...
Shelby Co (ECWd) - Nicholas Banning sued "SHELBY COUNTY, SHELBY COUNTY SHERIFF BRIAN MCREYNOLDS, DON KOONCE, ADVANCED CORRECTIONAL HEALTHCARE, INC.,CWENTON WILLIAMS, TONYA ATTEBERRY, DEVON DURBIN, MEGAN WARNER, MELISSA HAYNES, BRANDON GATTON, CHRIS ZAKOWSKI, DAINE BURKHEAD, KELLY ADAMS, and JACQUELINE CLAYTON", due to their actions/inactions during his...
Champaign Co. (ECWd) -, The Mahomet Township Road District Highway Commissioner Chris Doenitz appears to have been put on notice by the Attorney General Public Integrity Bureau (AG PIB) after numerous alleged bidding violations took place. A request for all bid publications between May 1, 2019, through...
Dolton, Ill. (ECWd) - A Federal Grand Jury has issued another subpoena to the Village of Dolton requesting records of Mayor Tiffany Henyard and others, as part of an ongoing federal investigation into the activities of Henyard while she has been serving a village mayor and...
Champaign Co., Ill. (ECWd)- Over the years we have exposed more fraud related to handwritten timecards than imaginable. Time Card Tuesday comes to mind as one of the worst payroll issues we have seen which was by the Algonquin Township Road District. When a push for electronic...
