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
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
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
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
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,
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
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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
Shelbyville, Ill. (ECWd) – After last month’s county board approval of a cash-rent lease (more on that later) of the Shelby County Farm to the alleged highest bidder, a private farmer, both the county and the farmer entered into and signed a lease for the
Mahomet Township, Ill. (ECWd) – Mahomet Township’s attorney, Mr. Michael A. Kraft, thinks he can demand that previously provided records under FOIA be destroyed, those emails deleted, and prohibit the FOIA requester from providing those records to anyone else. See his email: As set forth
Atlanta, Ill. (ECWd) – During the November 19, 2024, Atlanta, Illinois city council meeting, there was discussion about the city’s involvement with the Atlanta Betterment Fund and the Logan County Economic Development Partnership. According to the published meeting minutes (see page 2): the city council
Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) – Shelby County and the Shelby County Dive Team were once again named Defendants in a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) Lawsuit alleging the county and its dive team failed to properly respond to several FOIA requests for public records. The
