Illinois - (ECWd) - I woke up this morning to an e-mail from an attorney that has been following our work for some time. He forwarded an attachment that was titled - "Chicago: Still the Capital of Corruption - Anti-Corruption Report Number 8 - May 28,...
 (ECWd) - Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno and now Dennis Hastert. All examples that our society is failing at a pace never imaginable. For Hastert, he went from coach to the number 2 in line for the Presidency of our nation. Scandal after scandal across the nation,...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - During the Special Meeting last night, the Clark County Park District had three "security" employees present. Normally this would not have been an issue, however, since this is the first meeting after employee Mike Church decided to berate meeting attendees, is...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, Charity Murphy, the Clark County Park District's FOIA Officer decided to redact certain lines from the Park-owned cell phone bill, and to not supply all of the responsive pages of the bills...
Illinois - (ECWd) - "Increasingly in the United States, the degree to which a law is enforced - or whether a person is indicted - depends on the political considerations. And when the law has become negotiable, civilization utterly collapses." (Author -Victor Hanson) ...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - Update: 5-29-2015 - added the audio recording to the bottom of the article. It is about 1 hour and 41 minutes long. Just two days after having to cancel a committee meeting because there were no appointed committee members, the Clark County...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - On May 26, 2015, the Clark County Park District tried to hold a finance committee meeting. The problem was that there were no appointed finance committee members. One of the first items on the agenda was public comment, and I spoke first...
Edgar Co. (ECWd) - "These abuses won't stop until voters rise up angry again and again and again". About now some are saying here he goes again, complaining about matters of no importance to those in Edgar County. Oh how you arr mistaken, if that is the...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Bridget Bittman, the Orland Park Public Library's public information coordinator, filed what we believe to be a SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) lawsuit against critics of the OPPL's history of allowing child pornography to be accessed and other illegal things...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - After the short meeting tonight that was determined to be a meeting of a non-existent finance committee, the Park District's "Security Guard" decided to intimidate those that were in attendance by staring them down as they walked past him. He was in...
