Will-Grundy-Kendall Counties, Ill. (ECWd) – This is part 5 in a series of articles on the Will County and Grundy-Kendall Counties Regional Offices of Education (“ROE”). Read parts 1 – 2 – 3 and 4. We attended the PDA board meeting earlier this month and just prior to...
Dalzell, Ill. (ECWd) - Press release … On November 7, 2023 at 7:00 PM, a meeting was called by Dalzell Mayor Gary Orlandi to discuss the relationship between the Village of Dalzell and the Dalzell Fire Protection District. In attendance were Mayor Orlandi, Village of Dalzell attorney...
Coles County, Ill. (ECWd) - We filed a motion to intervene in former Coles County Assistant State's Attorney Brady Allen's criminal case in Coles County asking the Court to unseal the previously impounded mugshots of Defendant Brady Allen. Our main argument was that booking photos (mugshots) are...
Will-Grundy-Kendall Counties, Ill. (ECWd) – This is part 4 in a series of articles on the Will County and Grundy-Kendall Counties Regional Offices of Education ("ROE"). Read parts 1 - 2 - and 3 During this morning's meeting (video below) of the Professional Development Alliance ("PDA"), we provided public...
Grundy-Kendall Counties, Ill. (ECWd) – This is part 3 in a series of articles on the Will County and Grundy-Kendall Counties Regional Offices of Education. Read parts 1 and 2. This article will discuss the alleged scheme and artifice to qualify for the Illinois Municipal Retirement System...
Tazewell County, Ill. (ECWd) - We surveyed the various counties purporting to lease county-owned farm ground, which were named in a newspaper article written about the Shelby County Farm. Each county listed in that article received a Freedom of Information Act request from us asking for...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Board member Teresa Boehm was the subject of a quo-warranto filing due to accepting a position on the Rose Township cemetery board, which we covered in this article. During the last county board meeting a public comment was made wrongly claiming...
Nameoki Township, Madison County, Ill. (ECWd) - Public records of a public body are considered true and correct copies of originals and are able to be relied upon as true and correct. Apparently not the case in Nameoki Township, where public comments revealing records provided by the...
Macoupin County, Ill. (ECWd) - We surveyed the various counties purporting to lease county-owned farm ground, which were named in a newspaper article written about the Shelby County Farm. Each county listed in that article received a Freedom of Information Act request from us asking for...
Logan County, Ill. (ECWd) - We surveyed the various counties purporting to lease county-owned farm ground, which were named in a newspaper article written about the Shelby County Farm. Each county listed in that article received a Freedom of Information Act request from us asking for...
