[caption id="attachment_42424" align="alignnone" width="255"] Village Manager Joe LaMargo, dancing at a previous year's Village of Orland Park public employee "holiday party."[/caption] ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (ECWd) -Â The Village of Orland Park is something of a modern-day Peyton Place for watchdogs and observers of bad behavior by public...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - The public has a right to know how their money is spent, and with proper supporting documentation. In the case of the former Algonquin Township Highway Commissioner Bob Miller, a questionable document was presented by Miller to justify a claim that he...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - WorldSweeper.com has taken an interest in the Algonquin Road District "Sweeper Gate", which is interesting to us considering the local media has basically ignored the matter. "If you haven't picked it up on your own, this would seem to be the moral of this...
CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - The City of Carlinville, Illinois, filed a grant application for federal funding of a project from the Illinois Department of Agriculture back in 2016. Its purpose was to provide a 75/25% grant ($30k fed / $10k Carlinville) for (emphasis mine) "A Preliminary Engineering...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - A simple Freedom of Information Act request has now lead to yet another denial of records, however, the video evidence is going to be problematic for more than just Karen Lukasik. FOIA Request 11/29/2017: "A copy of any records that the current Algonquin Township...
WILLIAMSFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - The Williamsfield Community Unit School District 210 held a Special Meeting this morning, for the main purpose of having a closed session for board self evaluation with a representative of a statewide association (IASB) as facilitator. From their Official webpage, www.billtown.org: Statement from the...
NAPERVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - The City of Naperville has refused to provide public records requested. The requested records are related to "the obligation, receipt, and use of public funds" as found in Section 2.5 of the FOIA. Since the records relate to money owed the City...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - We suspect it is going to be a very interesting weekend for the former Algonquin Township Highway Commissioner Bob Miller and his lawyer, Thomas Gooch III . Interesting from a standpoint of what will go through their minds after reading this article. ...
WILLIAMSFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Knox County Sheriff's Department was called to the school board meeting last night, January 8, 2018. They were called by both the Williamsfield CUSD #210 Board President Chuck Ingle, and by me, after a short discussion on Ingle's violation of State law...
WILLIAMSFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - [caption id="attachment_42294" align="alignleft" width="136"] Board Pres. Chuck Ingle[/caption] We attended the Williamfield CUSD #210 School Board Meeting last night, January 8, 2018, and participated in public comment during their Hearing on transferring $50,000 from one account to another. Both Kirk and I voiced our...
