Shelby Co. (ECWd) - This is yet another one of the cases where you simply have to say, you can't make this stuff up. WAND News ran this story two days ago. The named DCFS employee in the story, Deborah Riley, jumped out at us. Is it the...
South Holland, Ill. (ECWd) - After the April 1, 2025, election, Thornton Township will have a new Township Supervisor and new Township Trustees. State Senator Napoleon Harris and his slate of candidates won the township election. We suggest one of the first items to tackle should be...
Dolton, Ill. (ECWd) - After the April 1, 2025, election, the Village of Dolton, Illinois will have a new Mayor along with a new majority of trustees aligned with the new Mayor. Hopefully, Tiffany Henyard will never disgrace the halls of Dolton again. We suggest one of the...
Edgar County, Ill. (ECWd) - Michael Lowery, a former Kansas, Illinois teacher and current Martinsville, Illinois teacher was arrested in Edgar County yesterday and held in the Edgar County Jail. According to Judici, today the Court found probable cause for the charges of three counts of Criminal...
Paris, Ill. (ECWd) - There has been considerable online chatter about the Paris (Crestwood) Community Unit School District #4 elections this spring, with people opining that there is something wrong with the ballot, but the problem is those people do not understand the election code and...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - For reasons we can't explain and by all indications no one cares, Shelby County has a record retention issue like we have never seen. A past forensic audit of the Sheriff's office, audit at this link, that includes officials lying about key records...
Coles Co., Ill. (ECWd) - The Oakland Fire Protection District was the subject of massive theft by its own trustees several years ago. We broke the first story on it back in October of 2022, as found in this article. The criminal investigation resulted in 18...
Paris, Ill. (ECWd) - On March 15, 2025, Paris District 95 School Board Candidate Andy Roberts was arrested without warrant for Domestic Battery and was held in the Edgar County Jail in an isolation cell (according to the mugshot) and was released the following day. Sometimes in...
Bolingbrook, Ill (ECWd) - Imagine being a child and riding your bicycle to school, only to be struck in a crosswalk by a car, and the driver leaves the scene. Imagine being the parent of that child. Yes. It happened. Jackie Traynere, Will County Board Member and DuPage...
Orland Park, Ill. (ECWd) - After we published articles on the Orland Fire Protection District spending $432k on Media Relations and $18k to diversity consultant while she was incarcerated in a federal penitentiary, the Orland Professional Firefighters Union wrote a letter to the district's board asking...
