SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - IL. State Rep. Luis Arroyo resigned today, read his resignation letter below. His resignation letter says he took great pride in being a strong independent voice from his constituents, and that he made the decision that the time has come for him to...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Yesterday we published an article on an Emergency Stalking / No Contact Order against a declared candidate for McHenry County Judge in the 2020 election (read it here). Today we have the actual petition(s), and here are the allegations which led to the...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) We first exposed questionable billing from Algonquin Township Attorney James Kelly in May of 2018 in this article which specifically focused on a powerpoint presentation that was prepared for what we believed at the time of publication was for the Northern Illinois Township...
McHenry County (ECWd) - On October 25, 2019, McHenry County's Risk Management Coordinator Lisa Shamhart filed a Petition for an Emergency Stalking / No Contact Complaint in McHenry County Circuit Court against Attorney Mary McClellan. Judge Johnson entered the Emergency Stalking / No Contact Order, which remains...
Will Co. (ECWd) - We sued the WIll County Sheriff last week for alleged violations of the Freedom of Information Act. We requested certain 911 phone calls and incident reports. Will County Sheriff's FOIA Officer either denied or excessively redacted the requested public records. We requested these records after...
McHenry County (ECWd) - There was a 10 am court hearing in the Gasser v. Lukasik case that began with a real eye-opener. McArdle presented a prepared order for the judge that had not been provided to Gasser's attorney Rob Hanlon prior to the hearing. Based...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Wesley Township trustee Kathy Kennedy, former Township Highway Commissioner John Norton, his daughter, former Township Clerk Sarah Norton, and their father Donald Norton have been named in an amended complaint for Slander, False Light Invasion of Privacy and Civil Conspiracy. A prior...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - We previously covered the insurance benefits being provided in Algonquin Township to past officials and dependents in this article. As we explained in the prior article, Bob Miller, former Algonquin Township Highway Commissioner was having his health insurance benefits paid for by the...
Winnebago Co. (ECWd) - In an Illinois Attorney General Opinion dated August 3, 2017, Pecatonica Township was found to have violated the Open meetings Act by improperly limiting public comment to two minutes per speaker (when there was only one speaker). The problem was that they did...
Will Co. (ECWd) As mentioned in this article, a well-established pattern of behavior for John Norton, former Wesley Township Highway Commissioner, is his inability to be truthful while on the witness stand in court proceedings. During one of the hearings which resulted in a Stalking / No...
