COLES CO., IL. (ECWd) - The former Sherriff of Coles County, Darrell Cox, who was publicly outed during his campaign (by the Edgar County Watchdogs - not by Phillips) for illegally selling guns in violation of State Law and in violation of Court Orders (WTHI article here),...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - During discussion of the Edgar County Airport grant application at this past Monday's county board study session, Mike Helstley is quoted in the Prairie Press with this wonderfully researched statement: ""This not only affects us," said Heltsley, noting many Downstate airports are...
RARITAN BOROUGH, N.J.  - In what is believed to be the largest settlement of an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) case in New Jersey, the borough has agreed to pay $650,000 to Gannett New Jersey to settle a lawsuit filed after borough officials denied a reporter's OPRA request for electronically maintained...
102nd - (ECWd) - Candidate for State Rep, Jim Acklin, has taken to lying about his opponent(s) and using his own "cover-up" of sexual abuse of a young girl by a teacher, thru failure to report the abuse as a mandated reporter, to further his ambitions of...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Oral Arguments were heard this morning at 10:00 a.m. on four cases appealed out of Douglas County Circuit Court. All four cases dealt with the Freedom of Information Act, and Kraft's assertion that Arcola Township violated the act. Listen to the arguments below: http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/AppellateCourt/Audio/2016/4th/030916_4-15-0028.mp3 . Please consider a...
Tinley Park, IL. (ECWd) - The story of "Real Residents of Tinley Park" Facebook group founder Christy Heins continues to unfold, with recent claims she made in social media about her appearance in Will County Circuit Court on 3/7/16 warranting factual rebuttal, now that the official...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - Michelle Moore's campaign committee has been found to have violated the reporting requirements of the Illinois Election Code for failing to properly report expenditures for 2015. You have to ask yourself, if a candidate cannot report simple transactions in accordance with the...
TINLEY PARK, IL. (ECWd) - Correction in second paragraph- Tinley Park resident Christy Heins appeared before 12th Circuit Court Judge Jessica Colon-Sayre on 3/7/16, and although the order of protection was not granted, Heins was verbally directed to stop harassing and to stay clear and stay away...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - We talked earlier about the Resolutions passed by the DuPage County Board setting the compensation of their elected officials in this article (HERE). We went thru the applicable statutes governing counties and compensation. The actual fact of county board member compensation,...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - It was a simple request. I was trying to figure out which elected DuPage County Board Members were participating in the county Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance programs. What I ended up with was some sort of cryptic numbering system to obscure the...
