FOIA Amendment should not be retroactive, amicus brief argues –

15 Aug FOIA Amendment should not be retroactive, amicus brief argues –

Posted at 22:12h in feature, Governor, IDFPR, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Supreme Court by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 2 Comments

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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...

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15 Aug Jasper County ATV resolution actually passed – Chairman, State’s Attorney made wrong call –

Posted at 11:56h in feature, Jasper County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 1 Comment

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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...

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14 Aug Bill Thomas, Atlanta Library District Trustee, filed false Economic Interest Statement in 2016 –

Posted at 12:43h in Atlanta Public Library District, feature, Logan County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 32 Comments

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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...

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14 Aug Orland Park Public Library’s Receipt Story Doesn’t Add Up at Lao Sze Chuan

Posted at 12:39h in Cook County, feature, Orland Park, Orland Park Public Library by KDuJan 2 Comments

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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...

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13 Aug Ethics Complaint Filed Against Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg

Posted at 19:00h in Cook County, Tinley Park by KDuJan 6 Comments

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[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...

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13 Aug Atlanta, Illinois Public Library files false information with Illinois Comptroller

Posted at 17:37h in Atlanta Public Library District, feature, Logan County by Kirk Allen & John Kraft 3 Comments

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Logan Co. (ECWd) - The Atlanta Public Library appears to have a few problems percolating as it relates to conflicts of interests with board member William Thomas, whom the library pays rent to.  Now we find false information contained in the annual financial reporting to the...

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12 Aug Atlanta Public Library Board skirting requirement of filling vacant board seat –

Posted at 16:26h in Atlanta Public Library District, feature, Logan County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 3 Comments

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ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - The Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Public Library District have failed to fill a vacant trustee seat for several months. the vacancy originally occurred when Anne Heironymus resigned and her resignation accepted at the March 10, 2016 meeting - she said...

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11 Aug Tinley Park Mayor Jacob Vandenberg’s alcohol induced Hissy Fit After Paul McCartney Concert

Posted at 23:23h in Cook County, feature, Tinley Park by KDuJan 5 Comments

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[caption id="attachment_38047" align="alignnone" width="338"] (Tinley Park Mayor Jacob "Jake" Vandenberg, in Hawaiian print shirt on the far right. One of the Village's attorneys, Patrick Connelly of the firm Peterson Johnson Murray, is pictured just to the left of the unidentified man in blue in the...

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11 Aug Orland Park Public Library Squandered $4,350 by Erasing Video History with Bridget Bittman, Disgraced Former Spokesman

Posted at 20:54h in Cook County, Orland Park, Orland Park Public Library by KDuJan 4 Comments

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Orland Park, Illinois Recently, keen eyes noticed a curious change on the Orland Park Public Library's official Facebook page, which had previously hosted numerous videos dating back to 2014 that the OPPL had paid local videographer Maqbool Rashid to produce (at a cost to taxpayers of...

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11 Aug Atlanta Public Library District (IL) meeting video –

Posted at 08:49h in Atlanta Public Library District, feature, Logan County by John Kraft & Kirk Allen 1 Comment

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ATLANTA, IL. (ECWd) - Below is the full video of the Atlanta Public Library Disctrict's board of trustees meeting held on August 10, 2017. Library District Trustee, Treasurer, and Atlanta's very own walking-conflict-of-interest, Mr. William "Bill" Thomas, was missing from the meeting...

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