Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Board member Teresa Boehm was the subject of a quo-warranto filing due to accepting a position on the Rose Township cemetery board, which we covered in this article. During the last county board meeting a public comment was made wrongly claiming...
Nameoki Township, Madison County, Ill. (ECWd) - Public records of a public body are considered true and correct copies of originals and are able to be relied upon as true and correct. Apparently not the case in Nameoki Township, where public comments revealing records provided by the...
The Shelby County Dive Team quit several months ago and in each meeting after that event, more information percolates to the surface during the county board meetings. While the video pretty much sums up most of those recent issues, a recent release of closed session...
Macoupin County, Ill. (ECWd) - We surveyed the various counties purporting to lease county-owned farm ground, which were named in a newspaper article written about the Shelby County Farm. Each county listed in that article received a Freedom of Information Act request from us asking for...
Logan County, Ill. (ECWd) - We surveyed the various counties purporting to lease county-owned farm ground, which were named in a newspaper article written about the Shelby County Farm. Each county listed in that article received a Freedom of Information Act request from us asking for...
Grundy-Kendall Counties, Ill. (ECWd) - This is part 2 in a series of articles on the Will County and Grundy-Kendall Counties Regional Offices of Education. Read the first article (here). This article will discuss the following allegation: “From its inception, we believe the PDA and its contract...
Will and Grundy-Kendall Counties, Ill. (ECWd) - This is the first of a series of articles where we will discuss the Will and Grundy-Kendall County Regional Offices of Education, contracts, employees, IMRF, and alleged conflicts of interest. BACKGROUND It came to our attention at least as early as...
Shelby County, Ill. (ECWd) - The Shelby County Farm continues to be a talking point for numerous citizens during county board meetings. Some cite the new law pertaining to leasing county farm ground and imply it means what they claim. We have to laugh because when...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) -  Past selective outrage on a cowardly Shelby County social media page once again is exposed for what it is, a political hit site that ignores the law and fails to research matters beyond its limited agenda. During a recent county board meeting the...
Poplar Grove, Ill. (ECWd) - Owen Costanza's loser appeal to the Appellate Court was unanimously determined to be a loser by the court. HELD: "The trial court’s judgment is affirmed because plaintiffs failed to establish the court erred in granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment." The statements contained...
