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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2016 Contact: Nick Klitzing - [email protected] Rep. Brandon Phelps chose Mike Madigan over Olive Branch relocation project The facts are clear: Rep. Brandon Phelps stayed quiet when House Speaker Mike Madigan ordered him to – voting for a wildly out-of-balance budget without any funding for...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - January 5, 2016 . State Continues Supporting Communities Dealing with Flood Impacts . SPRINGFIELD – Governor Bruce Rauner today added 11 counties to the state disaster declaration for widespread flooding. Those counties include Cass, Cumberland, Iroquois, Lawrence, Marion, Menard, Moultrie, Pike, Richland, Sangamon and Vermilion. . Last week,...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - Bloomington, Illinois' McLean County Board Chairman Matt Sorensen, former State Farm employee, named in federal indictment coming out of the Northern District of Illinois. The indictment, containing 14 pages and 8 Counts, claims that since 2004, Sorenson and co-workers submitted fraudulent invoices totaling over...
Will Co. (ECWd) - Our laws were designed as a set of rules to follow, and more often than not, when followed they protect the taxpayers. Not the Case with Lincoln-Way District 210 According to information in the lawsuit filed against District 210 by the local grass roots...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - There is nothing better than using peoples own words to expose the real truth behind an issue. We first reported on Breuder's lawsuit against the College of DuPage and 4 of its trustees in this article. We focused on the allegations...
Westfield, NJ. (ECWd) - . The Westfield Memorial Public Library Board of Trustees was sued on January 4, 2016 in Superior Court in New Jersey for allegedly violating that state’s open meetings act and improperly changing its established written policy regarding allowing pornography to be accessed on...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - As if we need any more proof that Dianne McGuire is on a personal vendetta against any and all reforms, let's keep this one short, sweet, and to the point! In her despicable letter to the Higher Learning Commission she stated: "Three...
