CARLINVILLE, IL. (ECWd) - We wanted to let our readers in Carlinville know what we are currently working on. There have been allegations, which we have been able to substantiate, that the City of Carlinville has been filing false water testing results to the Illinois Environmental Protection...
Edgar Co. (ECWd) - Edgar County Deputy Dee Burgin has once again lost in an attempt to stay the civil rights case against him in Federal Court. Redwood Law firm, the same firm that proved he violated a woman's civil rights in 2012, has once again...
Springfield (ECWd) - Scandals are nothing new in Illinois, and all too often we find that even when exposed at the highest level of our Government, the problems still don’t get fixed. Illinois has been trying to modernize its 30-year old Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) system...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - Around 3 p.m. this afternoon, several vehicles were involved in an accident at the corner of Jasper and Jefferson in Paris, Illinois. The Paris Police Department, Paris Fire Department, Edgar County Sherriff, and the ECSSA Ambulance responded to the incident. Emergency response personnel had...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - In the continuing legal battle between RIDES Mass Transit District and the Edgar County Board over the remaining funds after dissolution of the East Central Illinois Mass Transit District ("ECIMTD"), a Second Amended Complaint has been filed by RIDES Mass Transit...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - Often, we find that legal opinions only address the questions raised by a person, which on the surface, should be the way it works. However, in the case of a public body, the public body should have input on those questions and...
Cook Co. (ECWd) - What comes first, the chicken or the egg. In the case of legal opinions, it appears Maine Township Attorney Dowd preferred to simply bill for his services by endorsing the opinion of another attorney, who we presume never raised chickens. The primary issue...
TINLEY PARK, ILLINOIS - (ECWd) - An interesting development has occurred in the Village of Tinley Park with Trustee Mike "The Excavator" Glotz and Village Clerk Kristin Thirion publicly distancing themselves from Mayor Jacob "Jake" Vandenberg and his political party, Concerned Citizens for Tinley Park. Glotz and...
WHEELING, ILLINOIS - (ECWd) - At a recent Village of Wheeling public meeting, attorney James V. Ferolo from Klein Thorpe Jenkins represented the Village. Keen observers of Open Meetings Act violations committed in recent years have pieced together a concerning pattern where Klein Thorpe Jenkins, as a...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Airport held a fly-in / drive-in today. Below are some pictures of the event (click on pics to enlarge): [gallery ids="39577,39580,39581,39582,39584,39585,39586,39587,39588,39589,39590,39591,39592,39593,39594,39595,39596,39597,39598,39599,39600,39601,39602,39603,39604,39605,39606,39607,39608,39609,39610"] . ...
