Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - During today's court hearing, Summer Shaw, former Clark County Circuit Clerk employee and the daughter of the Circuit Clerk entered a guilty plea to a Class 4 Felony of "Theft of less than $500 from the government". She was sentenced to: 30 hours of public service payment of costs payment...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - On December 15, 2015 I submitted a request for public records to RIDES Mass Transit District, for all communications between them and Edgar County. [documentcloud url="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2649412-FOIA-2-RIDES-MTD/annotations/268024.html"] I received an answer the same day. What I was interested in was any information they may be...
Edgar Co., IL. (ECWd) - The Crosswind Runway Project that the Edgar County Airport completed back in 2012, was approved and constructed in violation of state law. The General County Airport and Landing Field Act, 620 ILCS 40, is the enabling statute for the Edgar County Airport. In...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - Three disgruntled Trustees of the College of DuPage decided it would be a good idea to act like little babies and boycott the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees for personal and political gain. Diane McGuire thinks Hell will freeze over...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The College of DuPage Faculty Association ("CODFA") has posted a note calling for the resignation of all trustees, administration, and staff that assisted the former regime in its quest to be placed on probation. "There are consequences for our actions or inactions....
College of DuPage (ECWd) - Chris Robling, hired to assist the Board in its transition with new leadership, has resigned in an email submitted late this afternoon. Dear Joe, I will assist Dr Haider personally from here on out. Please tell Linda to remove me from the...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The news of College of DuPage being placed on 2 year probation by the Higher Learning Commission came to us this afternoon, and the findings were certainly no surprise to us, for we have been reporting on these same issues for...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The Higher Learning Commission has released it findings in the advisory visit and has determined to place the College of DuPage on Probation Accreditation for at least 2 years pending the receipt of a Compliance Report due in February of 2017. This...
Edgar Co., IL. (ECWd) - The Edgar County Airport Advisory Board held its first meeting in three months, since the Airport Manager, Jerry Griffin, could never get the agenda posted in the required amount of time. During the meeting, they discussed several names put forth to fill...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - On April 29, 2015, the Physical Therapist Assistant Educator Program at the College of DuPage was placed on "Probationary Accreditation" due to COD's "inability to demonstrate compliance with a significant number of evaluative criteria". [documentcloud url="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2647584-CollegeDuPage/annotations/267530.html"] According to the letter from the Commission...
