HANOVER TOWNSHIP (ECWd) - While reviewing Hanover Township's expense reports, we noticed that the township had recently started using General Assistance funds to pay for its food pantry, instead of the Town Fund where it should be coming from. Previous years do not show this, as it...
PINCKNEYVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - According to the Pinckneyville Press: COUNTY DECLARES STATE OF FINANCIAL EMERGENCY During a special meeting tonight at the Perry County Government Building, the Perry County Board of Commissioners signed a resolution declaring a state of financial emergency in the county. The resolution is below (or...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - On June 29, 2018, the McHenry County Sheriff's office took a police report from Algonquin Township Clerk, Karen Lukasik. Our first coverage of that report was regarding the alleged theft of a video that we had published on our web site. You...
ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP (ECWd) - On June 29, 2018, Algonquin Township Clerk Karen Lukasik made a report of theft with the McHenry County Sheriff's Department alleging theft of public records and the report names "Edgar Watch Blog" as a suspect. Being named as a suspect in the...
KANKAKEE, IL. (ECWd) - We are please to announce the April 27, 2019 Watchdog Training session will be held in Kankakee, Illinois, at the Hilton Garden Inn, from 8 am until Noon. This is a Free event and although not required, we ask that you signup at...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - If you are new to our Time Card Tuesday series we urge you to catch up by first reading part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. As pointed out in our last article, it is abundantly clear, whoever was managing payroll...
CHICAGO, IL. (ECWd) - In a Press Conference today at the Union League Club, where it was announced by the attorney for the "Nigerian Brothers" that Alabinjo Osundairo and Abimbola Osundairo were filing a federal lawsuit naming Jussie Smollett's attorneys, Mark Geragos, TIna Glandian, and the...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - [caption id="attachment_51710" align="alignnone" width="221"] Stacey Adams' mugshot 4-17-2019[/caption] On April 17, 2019 at approximately 2 p.m., there was a vehicular accident involving Edgar County Sheriff Deputy Adam Rhoads, who was responding to a call and traveling west on Highway 16, and Stacey Adams,...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In a 4-3 vote at this morning's Special County Board meeting, the Edgar County Board voted to award the Special Service Area Ambulance contract to Horizon Health (Paris Hospital). A note of interest is the fact the Special Meeting held today was...
[caption id="attachment_51689" align="alignleft" width="229"] Photo from Kim Brown's Facebook page[/caption] PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - A local Edgar County resident who claims to have once received a phone call from the President and declined to talk to him, has been making some outrageous claims in regards to the...
