LaHarp, IL. (ECWd) - On August 18, 2017, the Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor issued an opinion stating that the LaHarpe City Council violated the Open Meetings Act on September 26, 2016, when it entered into closed session without a finding of imminent and probable...
Logan Co, IL. (ECWd) - The Atlanta Public Library District held a Special Meeting in December 18, 2014, with the sole purpose of discussing the Union Hall project. What really happened was not on the meeting agenda for a vote, but it happened anyway. Imagine, selling a building...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="186"] William Thomas[/caption] ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - We have previously written about William Thomas' 2016 Statement of Economic Interest (SEI), and how we believed it to be inaccurate. This article will cover both of his SEI filings for 2017, in which it appears he...
Limestone Twp, Kankakee Co. - (ECWd) - "I was told," "they said," "everyone I talked to," and the most common response, "it's always been done that way," is what we routinely hear when actions of public officials are questioned. During the recent Limestone Township meeting the Highway...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS (ECWd) -- The Orland Park Public Library apparently manipulated its email server somehow to block a recent Freedom of Information Act request from this author, made on August 4th, 2017 for documents related to what appears to be possible violations of the Illinois...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Watchdogs and the Illinois Policy Institute have submitted a joint friend-of-the-court brief, Amici Curiae, to the Supreme Court of Illinois in the case of Institute For Justice v. Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The joint brief urges...
Jasper Co. (ECWd) - Doing things the way you have always done them tends to be the biggest problem we see with public bodies, and it appears Jasper County is not much different than any of the other counties we have looked at. More often than...
LOGAN CO., IL (ECWd) - In the business of government, elected officials and certain others in decision-making positions are required to file true and accurate Statements of Economic Interest for each and every year, and file them with the County Clerk of the county they are...
ORLAND PARK, ILLINOIS -(ECWd) - For several weeks now, the Orland Park Public Library has been refusing to produce a receipt showing what was ordered and how many people ate (or drank) at a Chicago Chinatown restaurant named Lao Sze Chuan. The Library's story is that...
[caption id="attachment_38086" align="alignnone" width="224"] Plaque allegedly presented to Paul McCartney by Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg on July 26th, 2017 before his concert at Hollywood amphitheater.[/caption] TINLEY PARK, IL (ECWd) - As an update to an earlier report on Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg's alcohol-fuelled public spectacle...
