Lake County, IL. (ECWd) – When reviewing a response to a FOIA request, we found incidences where former Avon Township Supervisor and current Lake County Board Member, Terry Wilke, described...
Algonquin Township, IL. (ECWd) – Algonquin Township has been announced as one of four finalists in the Investigative Reporters and Editors (“IRE“) Annual Golden Padlock Award. From the notice of...
WESLEY TOWNSHIP, IL. (ECWd) – In Court this morning, Judge Osterberger held a purge hearing on her previous finding of Norton’s (Civil) Contempt of Court. The Court Ordered the following:...
...false statements, threats, and unreasonable demands, we took the only action left for us to take; filing a federal lawsuit in the Middle District of Florida. We named the following...
WESLEY TOWNSHIP, IL. (ECWd) – The Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor had issued a determination stating that Wesley Township violated the Open Meetings Act in relation to public comment...
...a house at that address the Township Assessor lives within eyesight of the new house, in an apartment building owned by the Mayor, and should be able to look directly...
...submit reports to the transit district, and a FOIA request for any such reports came back empty – as in they do not have any such reports. What was found,...
...district has in place allows the district to accomplish this with essentially no cost to local taxpayers. Without this relationship, the District would have to pay a commercial company to...
...false declarations before a grand jury and one count of attempted obstruction of justice, according to an indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Chicago. Arraignment has not yet been...
