According to verbal confirmation from the Board of Education President during the last meeting, the board approved a "team building" retreat to Lake of The Ozarks and Dr. Dvorak was kind enough to let them use her property for the event. When I asked my...
WHEELING, IL. (ECWd) - On March 3, 2019, Wheeling Village Trustee Joe Vito decided to tell the other candidates running for village trustee how to run their campaigns in respect to campaign signage, where it could be placed, and what he would do with their signs. Vito...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - While reviewing the public records that the Iroquois West Superintended lied about the purpose of our request, I found numerous troubling matters on the credit card statements that we bet the vast majority of the public had no clue of. CUSD 10 is...
GILMAN, IL. (ECWd) - This article will cover three issues; Costs of complying with Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests, who asked us to send FOIA requests, and School Board Member Kyle Kraft's offensive comments. CRAZY:Â The Watchdogs cost the school district $2977 in lost personnel hours...
Iroquois Co. (ECWd) - Yes, I said deception and both the Superintendent Dr. Dvorak and the Board of Education are involved. It is clear after a few Freedom of Information Act requests and attendance at one meeting, the public is being deceived in what appears to possibly...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - We recently reported on the College of DuPage Candidate Maureen Dunne and her statement of economic interest in this article. According to Candidate Maureen Dunne’s LinkedIn page, she is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois. This same disclosure was found in...
BOLINGBROOK, IL. (ECWd) - Apparently, former DuPage Township Supervisor William Mayer has a problem with people posting negative comments about him in the closed Facebook group "Bolingbrook Politics" and contacted his attorney to threaten at least one of its administrators. On March 22, 2019, attorney John R....
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 and 7. At this point in our coverage, it is abundantly clear, whoever was managing payroll has some explaining to do. Today’s...
ALORTON, IL. (ECWd) - According to local residents, on March 17, 2019, Alorton Village Mayor Jo Ann Reed was spotted using the Village of Alorton's Police vehicle to distribute sample ballots with her preferred candidate's names checked off. Our source indicated that Reed handed out the ballot...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Our recent exposure of Algonquin Township Road District's failure to bid out salt purchases in accordance with established laws continues to raise concerns. In particular, as outlined in the previous article, the bidding is to be done through a unit of government,...
