Woodstock, IL. (ECWd) – For Immediate Release: Woodstock, Illinois January 23, 2020. Local 395 Iron Workers Union President and Business Agent entered guilty pleas in connection with an attack on a McHerny County company that took place on January 7, 2016. Pursuant ot the guilty pleas, the Local Union...
Mattoon, IL. (ECWd) - [caption id="attachment_56553" align="alignleft" width="123"] Mattoon Mayor Tim Gover[/caption] During the first City Council meeting of 2020, Mattoon Mayor Tim Gover appointed Mark Nelson as Commissioner of the Coles County Airport Authority. Nelson is an employee of Mattoon CUSD 2 (School District). The problem is...
Coles Co. (ECWd) - UPDATE 4-21-2021: Hilary Rawlings was found NOT GUILTY during a bench trial on 4-20-2021. The Jury Trial for Hilary Rawlings, former Mattoon area Special Education Nurse, was vacated. The trial was previously scheduled for January 14, 2020. There is a Status Hearing set for...
Edgar CO. (ECWd) - Courtni Hays, is scheduled for a Hearing on January 30, 2020, at 11:00 a.m. for a negotiated plea to the charges of theft of between $10,000 and $100,000 from the Edgar County Health Department. Former Edgar County Health Department employee Courtni Hays was...
Coles Co. (ECWd) - On January 17, 2020, Michael "Shane" West plead Not Guilty to the charges of DUI. On January 21, 2020, West appeared in court again, and waived formal reading of the charges. According to his Judici file, he did not request Petition to Rescind Statutory...
WILL Co. (ECWd) - John Norton, former appointed Wesley Township Road Commissioner, ousted by the voters in 2017, filed a Motion to Reconsider the Plenary Order of Protection granted against him last fall. It is forever recorded that Norton has a Stalking No Contact Order against him...
Wesley Township, Will County, IL. (ECWd) - The former Wesley Township Road Commissioner (appointed to the vacancy in 2013 and never elected) thought it might be a good idea to reap (unlawful) unemployment benefits from his former (appointed to an elective) position when the electors threw...
Frankfort, IL. (ECWd) - Alexander “Alex” Petrakis, Associate Principal at Lincoln-Way East High School, resigned his employment effective January 15, 2020. We applaud him for doing the right thing. The School Board vote was unanimous to accept the 5 resignations listed on the Agenda. [pdf-embedder url="https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LincolnWay-2020-01-16-RESIGNATIONS-REPORT.pdf" title="LincolnWay 2020-01-16 RESIGNATIONS...
Collison, IL. (ECWd) - One of our readers, Ted Hartke, provided us with the following: Report of wind turbine transformer (at the turbine's base) on fire at 5:44 PM, Thursday, Jan 16, 2020, in the InvEnergy project located southwest of Collison Illinois. The fire department arrived shortly after...
Frankfort, IL. (ECWd) - Alexander "Alex" Petrakis, Associate Principal at Lincoln-Way East High School, was arrested and charged with DUI on November 23, 2019 in Lockport, Illinois. When I called him at work yesterday and asked if the information found on Will County's Court website was him,...
