Shelby Co. (ECWd) - WIPFLI notified Shelby County on October 12, 2022, that they will no longer be providing audit or accounting services for Shelby County. They only cite "after further evaluation" as the reasoning. We first wrote about the audit and some of the concerning information...
Edgar Co. (ECWd) - During the Edgar County Health Department Board meeting I raised a question regarding the compensation they were about to set for the two administrators as can be seen in the video below. The board approved their new salaries to be based on...
Will Co. VAC - (ECWd)- During the last Veterans Assistance Commission ("VAC") meeting, the secretary that was never actually appointed as secretary, article here, attempted to provide cover for Amanda Koch and her conflict of interest of being both a county board member and a VAC member. ...
Pecatonica, IL. (ECWd) - According to the Court Docket and WIFR-Rockford, newly appointed Pecatonica Police Chief Mike Mund was charged with DUI after a vehicle crash at around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, October 16, 2022 in Rockford, Illinois. Mund was arrested, charged, and taken to the Winnebago County...
Edgar Co. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Public Health Department Board is holding a meeting Wednesday of this week at 7 AM. There are several agenda items for action, including salaries, base hours, and the effective dates for those items. We submitted Freedom of Information Act requests...
Veterans Assistance Commission of Will County (ECWd) - So desperate to vote on Veterans Assistance Commission business, Denise Williams came up with another false statement on how she can continue voting during the October 14, 2022, meeting. This time, she claims she was "appointed as secretary by...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) The Shelby County Board held its regular meeting Thursday of last week. We apologize for the delay in posting as our live stream failed to upload and the video had to be uploaded manually. There were several votes taken which were declared to have...
OAKLAND, IL (ECWd) - Last week, the Oakland Fire Protection District held a special meeting to appoint three new trustees, to replace the three trustees who resigned earlier. Having no statutory authority to ask the circuit court to make those appointments, the resigned trustees "un-resigned" long enough...
Joliet, IL. (ECWd) - Earlier this year, we published an article explaining that Senator Michael Hastings had filed a Rule 224 Motion in Will County Court in an attempt at discovering who had access to and distributed a copy of a police report his wife made...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County Farm has been the subject of more misinformation than we thought possible, and just when we thought things were going in the right direction, the current contract is ignored. For months we have raised the issue of selling the crop,...
