CLARK CO., IL. (ECWd) - The Candidate Lineup (gleaned from petitions that were submitted by close of business today) for the Clark County Park District Board of Commissioner seats in the April 4, 2017 election is as follows: 3 full (4-year) term seats - Roy Sweet, Joe Ewing,...
CHATHAM, IL. (ECWd) - The Mayor of Chatham, Illinois, Thomas Gray - who is also an attorney (officer of the Courts), immediate past president of the Illinois Municipal League, and (recently retired) General Counsel to the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System, thought to act his unprofessional self and flip-off a...
COLES CO., IL. (ECWd) - The Oakland Fire Protection District was called out this evening to a structure fire in rural Coles County. Video: ...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - The Bloomington Election Commission and its Municipal Officers Electoral Board has rescheduled the hearing previously scheduled for Thursday (where they failed once again to properly post the agenda) for Friday December 9th at 2:30 p.m., or 1430 hours. There are other petition objection hearings...
LISLE, IL. (ECWd) - Lisle Community Unit School District 202 has attempted to claim copyright on its School Board meeting videos (click here). Those videos are a public record and cannot be copyrighted (court case here) (article in the Municipal Minute here) or otherwise have any restrictions...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Here is a link to their Municipal Minute article (click here). . Court Interprets "Public Recital" Requirement of OMA Prior to Final Action . We don't get a lot of guidance from Illinois courts on compliance with the Open Meetings Act (OMA) (most of our guidance...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - We have already pointed out two recent examples of the Bloomington Election Commission violating the Open Meetings Act, and have also found another one - from 2014. The Commission admitted in a letter to the Attorney General's office that it had violated the Open Meetings...
MARSHALL, IL. (ECWd) - The Clark County Park District held a special meeting last night, the same night as Township Caucuses, most likely in hopes nobody would notice they were about to lease out residential lots for less than the cost of an annual campsite. An amazingly...
BLOOMINGTON, IL. (ECWd) - In a day when adherence to the law is a revolutionary act, this one drives that message home. An objection was made to the nomination petitions for Bloomington's Mayor, Tari Renner - and he accused those wanting the law followed of being "fringe...
Sangamon, Co. (ECWd) - After several years of attending Chatham board meetings, I have truly never seen anything like this. The citizens have worked tirelessly to find that the municipal bonds that were sold from South Sangamon Water Commission (SSWC) did not reflect the true amount...
