Hancock Co., IL. (ECWd) - Paul Richardson, former Ambulance Director in Hancock County, IL. pled guilty to one count of theft and one count of  official misconduct and was sentenced to four months in jail. We first published about his charges in this article (here). Unfortunately, Hancock County...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - A College of DuPage Foundation Board Member has filed suit in DuPage County Circuit Court, Case number 2015L001244 against the Edgar County Watchdogs Incorporated, and three other defendants. (Chicago Tribune coverage here) Carla Burkhart, owner of Herricane Graphics, has filed what...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - What a shameful display of childish behavior! The boycott continues for the second time tonight, and the third time in a month, with Birt, McGuire, and Wozniak failing to show for the Special Meeting that they called which was supposed to start at 7:00 p.m. tonight...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The Illinois Community College Board ("ICCB") has issued an Agency Opinion that since the Statute does not distinguish between an absence due to sickness, etc, and an absence due to a resignation, their opinion is that Vice-Chair Maccochi is the Chairman,...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The boycott continues tonight with Birt, McGuire, and Wozniak failing to show for another meeting that was scheduled for 6:45 p.m. tonight at the College of DuPage. The Special Meeting was started on time, and Chairman Mazzochi gave a statement on why...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The college of DuPage filed their motion to dismiss on Counts I, II, and IV of Robert Breuder’s lawsuit against the college today in the Northern District of the Federal courts. It is appearing to be a very distinct and appropriate...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - From day one our primary purpose has been to effectuate change by our local government. The goal was to get them to do nothing more than comply with the laws of the state and do so with the best interest of...
DeKalb Co., IL. (ECWd) - There must be many instances of collisions at the intersection of cronyism and state procurement rule violations that are likely to be mentioned in what appears to be 36,000 plus pages of documentation in the Office of the Inspector General’s investigation...
DeKalb, IL. (ECWd) - On April 26, 2015, we published the article “NIU Official dials wrong number – leaves message”. To recap, that was a story about an errant phone message left by Bill Nicklas, then NIU’s VP of Operations, in which Mr. Nicklas thought he...
ARCOLA TOWNSHIP, IL. (ECWd) - Edited to correct date...
