Silvis, Ill. (ECWd) - In a previous article on our complaint to the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor ("PAC") against the City of Silvis, Illinois, alleging Open Meetings Act ("OMA") violations during a February 7, 2023, closed meeting in which the city's labor attorney confiscated and...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - UPDATE 5-4-2023: The Federal Appeals Court STAYED the lower federal court's injunction against enforcement of the gun/magazine ban. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn, Southern District of Illinois, issued a 29-page Order for an Injunction against the state of Illinois' enforcement of the recent...
Springfield, Ill. (ECWd) - As we reported in February on a previous version of this Bill which was apparently abandoned, the Bloomington-Normal Airport Authority in McLean County is wanting more tax money, so they lobbied State Senator David Koehler to sponsor Senate Bill 684, which amends the...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - A couple of weeks ago, Kerry Gifford, the General Manager of the Sangamon Valley Public Water District, turned in his resignation as Treasurer of the District and apparently had some words with the water district's board president or someone else in the...
Cook County, Ill. (ECWd) - Monica Gordon was elected as a Commissioner to the Cook County Board (5th District) last fall while she was already an elected Prairie State Community College Trustee in Cook County. According to the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act, the offices are incompatible,...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Over the past 13 years of our operations, we have seen time and time again the negative impact and distrust of elected officials in communities due to social media postings. While many such posts grow from a valid concern, the lack of...
McLean Co., Ill. (ECWd) - As we have done in the past, when court cases we are interested in reporting on pop up, we ask for Extended Media Coverage, or "Cameras in the Courtroom," according to the Illinois Supreme Court Policy for Extended Media Coverage in...
FLORIDA (ECWd) - Editor's note 4-22-2023:Â We updated this article with new photos. After enduring more than two years of relentless, abusive, and unwarranted web-based and social media attacks on our organization and our persons, we have hopefully and finally brought this chapter to a close by...
Illinois (ECWd) - We first exposed a questionable survey being sent out by Illinois State University in this article. After obtaining numerous documents related to the grant and applications for this project, it appears the public is not only on the hook for $1,338,560 but the...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County Board voted a few months ago to establish their website which is now up and running. The current board is the first in 20 years to actually act on the issue and get it done. They also voted to...
