Alsip Park District (ECWd) - Free golf! Free Aquatic Center! Free Fitness Center! Free vehicles, tools, and machinery! EVERYTHING IS FREEE!!! But only if you are or were an Alsip Park District Commissioner! And of course, none of this is "compensation" LOL. From time to time we are...
Orland Park, IL. (ECWd) - Yesterday, on Monday 6/15/15, writer and community activist Megan Fox sued Orland Park Library's Public Information Coordinator, Bridget Bittman, for defamation. This includes defamation per se, defamation per quod, and false light involved in Bittman allegedly telling various reporters lies about...
Arthur, IL. (ECWd) - In a disgusting move, an Arthur Park District Commissioner that was not going to run for office again decided that he needed "compensated" for his past service as Commissioner by motioning to award all "retiring" commissioners free lifetime passes to all park...
Illinois (ECWd) - The more Districts we look at, the more problems we find. For some reason, Park Districts, along with other local governments, seem to have been given the wrong definition of "shall serve without compensation" - or maybe they are just confused on what...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - We have been informed that Clark County Park District Commissioner Ron Stone has threatened other Commissioners that he will remove them from the Board if they talk about anything discussed during closed meetings. Ron Stone thinks he has more power than other...
Livingston Co., IL. (ECWd) - A motion was made to DENY the Pleasant Ridge Wind Farm application - meaning a YES vote would be a vote to deny the application and to accept the motion to deny the application. Livingston County Board Chairman Marty Fannin says there...
Livingston Co., IL. (ECWd) - The Livingston County Zoning Board of Appeals has issued its recommendation to the Livingston County Board. One point of interest during the hearing process was that there were at least two individuals, in their official capacities for other local governments, speaking in...
Clark County, IL. (ECWd) - The Clark County Sheriff's Department responded to a 911 call on an incident last weekend in which Charity Murphy, the Clark County Park District's Executive Director, and her husband, West Terre Haute Police Officer "Chuck" Murphy, and others got into an...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The College of DuPage Board of Trustees tonight waived attorney-client privilege to release the “‘Independent Investigative Report on WDCB.” Read a copy of the report here: http://ouweb.cod.edu/news-events/pdfs/wdcb.pdf COD hired the Chicago law firm Williams Montgomery and John, Ltd. in February 2015 to investigate,...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor's Office (PAC) is responsible for answering inquiries on various subjects, to include the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA), and the Open Meetings Act (OMA). These inquiries come from public officials, media, and citizens either in...
