Poplar Grove, Ill. (ECWd) - The Village of Poplar Grove, Illinois, received the preliminary audit report from a forensic audit conducted on credit card expenditures between 2019 and 2022 2023 - Owen Costanza was the village president edited to add: (until 2021 - the village policies...
Moultrie Co., Ill. (ECWd) - The Moultrie County Board met last night to conduct their regular course of business, which had been postponed from last week due to something not getting posted properly for the regular meeting. Moultrie County's seat is Sullivan, IL., 23 miles northeast of...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Illinois Comptroller notified Shelby County of the following: "This notice is to inform you that the fiscal year 2023 Annual Financial Report (AFR) for your unit of local government is currently delinquent." "Local governments that do not submit the AFR by the deadline...
Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) - After the frivolous and unwarranted subpoena (which was later quashed by the court) filed by Shelby County State's Attorney Ruth Woolery against the county's contracted auditor, and after the County Board Chairman and Vice-Chairman both resigned from the board, the contracted...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We received a copy of an email sent to the entire board by the former State's Attorney Rob Hanlon just prior to his last day in office. Within the email were several concerning updates for the board. To date, we have not...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The failures are stacking up in the Shelby County State's Attorney office, and since the locals are no longer "bird dogging" what takes place in that office we must once again point to the record as the failures are stacking up. Carlos Oberg...
Dolton, Ill. (ECWd) - After last week's Dolton Village Trustees meeting held at the Dolton Park District by a majority of the board, Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard and two trustees filed a lawsuit against three Dolton Trustees and the Dolton Park District in an attempt at...
Paris, Ill. (ECWd) - Edgar County Sheriff's Deputy Toby Krabel resigned from the Sheriff's department the day following his arrest in Vigo County Indiana for allegedly "Operating a Vehicle While Intoxicated Endangering a Person" with probable cause found on August 7, 2024, indicating that he "refused...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - One does not need to go anywhere else to see the level of hypocrisy, malfeasance, and outright ignoring of laws than those exposing themselves in the Shelby County Courthouse. A current court filing by county resident Chris Boehm regarding the potential sale of...
Coles Co. (ECWd) - Update: 10-9-2024: Appellate Court's reversing a previous ruling, and now at a Jury trial, Tyler Abbott was acquitted of charges by a Coles County Jury late this morning in Coles County Circuit Court. "Jury returns to open court at 11:52AM with the following verdicts: We,...
