McHenry Co. (ECWd) - With ongoing criminal investigations, lawsuits that involve unfulfilled requests for records, and reports of record destruction by Township officials, we have to admit we never thought we would find what we found today. We first exposed the record destruction issue in Algonquin Township in...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Wesley Township must now answer to the courts for refusing to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for public records. From the Township Clerk Sarah Norton first claiming they would respond in a few weeks when she gets back from vacation, to...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) This just occurred about 3 miles south of Paris, Illinois on Illinois Highway 1. It appears a deer hit the van on the left, front side, which activated the van's airbags. Edgar County Special Service Area Emergency Medical Services, Edgar County Sherriff's Department, Paris Community...
MORGAN CO., IL. (ECWd) - Morgan County has a population of around 35,500 people, with its County Seat located in Jacksonville, IL. It is managed by an elected three-person Board of Commissioners. In 1996, it established the Morgan County Regional Planning Commission ("MCRPC"), who's sole statutory duty...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Thomas Gooch III filed a "DEFENDANT'S COMBINED MOTION TO DISMISS BROUGHT PURSUANT TO 735 ILCS 5/2-619.1". It is a most interesting read, and clearly, Gooch has failed to do the deep dive into public records as those very records and exhibits prove many parts of...
Ford Co. (ECWd) - We recently exposed the failures of the Ford County Regional Planning Commission in this article. That public body has three primary tasks by statute. “Said Commission shall be a fact-finding body and shall make such investigations and gather such statistics as it shall deem necessary...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - On August 2, 2018, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor determined that the City of Carlinville improperly withheld public records requested by me in February of 2017. That same day, I emailed Carlinville FOIA Officer Carla Brockmeier (and Dan Schuering) requesting production...
ALORTON, IL. (ECWd) - It isn't just the Mayor ...
Effingham Co. (ECWd) - We sued the County of Effingham for failure to provide key financial records related to the payment of a private attorney to handle the County Ambulance contract. We covered that flawed hiring process in this article. Flawed because the court directed the appointment...
NAPERVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - As a result of a lawsuit filed on Monday, and the ruling handed down today, Candidate for Illinois State Representative, Val Montgomery (D) (41st) is ineligible for office as she actually lives in (according to her petition sheets) the 49th Representative District. At...
