CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - The City of Carlinville's council members received a Notice of Criminal Trespass during their last city council meeting. It came from the Illinois Alluvial Regional Water Company, a private company in which the city is part owner (at least for now). So Carlinville...
KANKAKEE, IL. (ECWd) - It's a sad day when the Illinois Attorney General has to get involved in the City of Kankakee's failure to approve and post meeting minutes. Something so simple, yet so hard for the city to do. They can build and publish a completely...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - After reviewing another Police Officer's narrative of the events from December 18, 2017, it is clear, according to the report, that Jasper County School Board Member Holly Farley gave false information to the Police Officer. Officer James Riddle, said he spoke to Farley...
EDGAR CO., IL (ECWd) - The Truth in Taxation Hearing schedule for today on the proposed property tax increase for the newly formed Elbridge-Symmes Multi-Township Assessment District has been canceled. There were several problems, including passing the cut-off date for submitting the tax levy to the County...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - "We have an emergency" "Two men that are very violent" "Disrupting and yelling and screaming at everyone on the board" All of those statements made by Board Member Melissa Stanley are false. Then she tried to deny saying anything about violence to the Police Officer when...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - This is a quick review of only part of what we wrote about in 2017, there is not enough time to talk about everything, and a good bit of it is still being uncovered and dealt with. We would like to specifically thank...
Cook Co. (ECWd)- In yet another shocking example of either ignorance or stupidity of our laws, look no further than Maine Township Supervisor Laura Morask, an attorney at law no less. During the November 28th, 2017, meeting, an agenda item for the destruction of an audio record...
NEWTON, IL. (ECWd) - This school board censured and punished a fellow board member in violation of state law, federal civil rights (of the member and of the voters), and board policy. "Censure" is not found in the school code. Illinois is a Dillon's Rule state, which...
Illinois (ECWd) - Leave it to the worst run state in the country to pass another law attempting to legislate bad human behavior. Now before everyone goes nuts over what I am about to say, know that I do not believe anyone should be subject to sexual harassment in...
Coles Co. (ECWd) - A short notice of appeal has been filed in the Federal Courts pertaining to the lawsuit brought by Rob Perry and Rex Dukeman, both members of the Concerned Tax Payers of Coles County group, that was dismissed at the circuit level earlier...
