Poplar Grove, IL. (ECWd) - This should be a textbook lesson learned for anyone running for public office: If you are running for office, and your opponent publishes true statements about your past, filing a lawsuit alleging defamation or anything else will not go well and...
Dolton, IL. (ECWd) - In another display of wasteful spending and comingling of resources within the village of Dolton and Thornton Township, a woman attempted to attend an official township event and was forced to leave by Dolton police officers acting on township supervisor Henyard's unlawful...
Mattoon, IL. (ECWd) - Prior to the November 15, 2022, Mattoon School Board Meeting, Board Chairman Michelle Skinlo was caught electioneering on school property when we spotted her passing her election petition sheet to a fellow board member for his signature while seated at the boardroom...
Naperville, IL. (ECWd) - Dana Davenport, former Naperville Liquor Commissioner (Public Officer), current Attorney (Officer of the Court), and internet talk and television show host (using the name of Dana Michelle) plead Guilty in DuPage County Circuit Court on October 24, 2022, to Driving Under the...
Edgar Co. (ECWd) - Once again we find local reporting is just that, reporting. The challenge with simply "reporting" is that it fails to get to the root of the matters being reported on.  A headline in November 19, 2022, Prairie Press reads: "Health Department rights...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois State Senator Ann Gillespie recently introduced a Bill to essentially eliminate or make it extremely hard to offer firearms prizes for Poker Runs and Raffles for organizations such as the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Political Committees, and other nonprofits...
Calumet City, IL. (ECWd) - Dolton School District 149 Board of Education canceled the remote meeting they had previously scheduled for tonight, November 21, 2022. No reason given for the cancelation. ...
Calumet City, IL. (ECWd) - Dolton School District 149 Board of Trustees published a meeting agenda of a remote meeting for 6:00 p.m. on Monday, November 21, 2022, via Zoom only (no physical meeting location). There is no longer a legitimate health emergency necessitating remote meetings and...
Calumet City, IL. (ECWd) - Imagine a world in which school board members, or any other public board for that matter, could simply hold a fake "trial" and "convict" an elected board member they didn't like of "crimes" and then vote to remove them from the...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Army Corp of Engineers has refused to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request even after multiple follow-up attempts were made with the Washington, D.C. office which claimed it was going to be responded to by the Chicago office. After...
