Springfield, Ill. (ECWd) - UPDATE: Edited to replace "Champaign County" with "Sangamon County" According to the Veterans Assistance Commission of Sangamon County, this is what lead up to the VAC filing suit against the county: the Veterans Assistance Commission of Sangamon County (VACSC) submitted its certified budget...
Rockford, Ill. (ECWd) - The Illinois Military Veterans Assistance Act was recently amended to mandate funding for county Veterans Assistance Commissions ("VAC") by each county through a tax levy or other means. Section 2(1) of the Act states, in part:Â . . . the county board shall...
Pecatonica Township, Ill. (ECWd) - This morning a Winnebago County Judge ordered all candidates for elected offices in Pecatonica Township to be placed on the ballot. Within the order, the judge stated the township clerk was “terribly misguided,” acted arbitrarily and abused her discretion. We will provide the...
Pecatonica Township, Ill. (ECWd) - While listening to Friday's court hearing in Winnebago County related to the Pecatonica Township Clerk's decertification of certain candidates, it was clear to us that this type of issue needs legislative intervention. The question needing addressed in the legislature is "at what...
Champaign Co. (ECWd) -, The Mahomet Township Road District Highway Commissioner Chris Doenitz appears to have been put on notice by the Attorney General Public Integrity Bureau (AG PIB) after numerous alleged bidding violations took place. A request for all bid publications between May 1, 2019, through...
Dolton, Ill. (ECWd) - A Federal Grand Jury has issued another subpoena to the Village of Dolton requesting records of Mayor Tiffany Henyard and others, as part of an ongoing federal investigation into the activities of Henyard while she has been serving a village mayor and...
Champaign Co., Ill. (ECWd)- Over the years we have exposed more fraud related to handwritten timecards than imaginable. Time Card Tuesday comes to mind as one of the worst payroll issues we have seen which was by the Algonquin Township Road District. When a push for electronic...
Shelbyville, Ill. (ECWd) - After last month's county board approval of a cash-rent lease (more on that later) of the Shelby County Farm to the alleged highest bidder, a private farmer, both the county and the farmer entered into and signed a lease for the property. We...
Mahomet Township, Ill. (ECWd) - Mahomet Township's attorney, Mr. Michael A. Kraft, thinks he can demand that previously provided records under FOIA be destroyed, those emails deleted, and prohibit the FOIA requester from providing those records to anyone else. See his email: As set forth in my email...
Cook Co., Ill. (ECWd) - Village of Dolton and Thornton Township employees and officials might consider taking advantage of this pilot self-reporting program offered by the United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois. It is set to expire on March 15, 2025. CHICAGO — The U.S. Attorney’s Office...
