Edgar County, Ill. (ECWd) - Michael Lowery, a former Kansas, Illinois teacher and current Martinsville, Illinois teacher was arrested in Edgar County yesterday and held in the Edgar County Jail. According to Judici, today the Court found probable cause for the charges of three counts of Criminal...
Paris, Ill. (ECWd) - There has been considerable online chatter about the Paris (Crestwood) Community Unit School District #4 elections this spring, with people opining that there is something wrong with the ballot, but the problem is those people do not understand the election code and...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - For reasons we can't explain and by all indications no one cares, Shelby County has a record retention issue like we have never seen. A past forensic audit of the Sheriff's office, audit at this link, that includes officials lying about key records...
Coles Co., Ill. (ECWd) - The Oakland Fire Protection District was the subject of massive theft by its own trustees several years ago. We broke the first story on it back in October of 2022, as found in this article. The criminal investigation resulted in 18...
Paris, Ill. (ECWd) - On March 15, 2025, Paris District 95 School Board Candidate Andy Roberts was arrested without warrant for Domestic Battery and was held in the Edgar County Jail in an isolation cell (according to the mugshot) and was released the following day. Sometimes in...
Bolingbrook, Ill (ECWd) - Imagine being a child and riding your bicycle to school, only to be struck in a crosswalk by a car, and the driver leaves the scene. Imagine being the parent of that child. Yes. It happened. Jackie Traynere, Will County Board Member and DuPage...
Orland Park, Ill. (ECWd) - After we published articles on the Orland Fire Protection District spending $432k on Media Relations and $18k to diversity consultant while she was incarcerated in a federal penitentiary, the Orland Professional Firefighters Union wrote a letter to the district's board asking...
Springfield, Ill. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General sent the following to the various county Veterans Assistance Commissions congratulating them on their appointments and touching on some of their responsibilities as appointed members of their commissions. Dear member of the Veterans Assistance Commission, Our democracy is built on...
Charleston, Ill. (ECWd) - Public hearings on the siting application for "Coles Wind" are underway in the Coles County Courthouse. Below are parts 1 and 2, more to follow: ...
DuPage Township, Ill. (ECWd) - DuPage Township (Will County) owns and maintains two cemeteries, Alexander in Romeoville, and Boardman in Bolingbrook. The DuPage Township democrats have placed (or permitted one to remain) a campaign sign on the iron fence of Alexander Cemetery. The sign was recently updated...
