On July 17, 2025, the Cook County Court Ordered the Village of Dolton, Illinois, to pay our attorney fees in the amount of ...

If you have ever submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to a public body and wondered if the records provided truly represent everything you asked for, your ...

Considering the volume of misinformation, opinions, speculations, and outright lies regarding the Jeffrey Epstein “files”, we ...

Below are a couple of the Coles County Sheriff’s Office’s body cam footage taken during the search warrant issued due to ...

In a rare, but significant decision, the Illinois Supreme Court ordered the civil trial of Robert Dorman and Douglas Hulme v. Madison County et al, to be heard in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which ...

Kansas, IL. (ECWd) – We previously wrote about the Kansas Township Supervisor’s admission to the Attorney Gerneral’s Public Access Counselor that the township did hold a special meeting on Columbus ...

I was shocked to be informed that a request by the Velsicol property owners to sell the property to the City was even being considered by Marshall’s Mayor and the Economic Development person. I ...

Former Illinois State Senator William Samuel McCann Jr was sentenced on July 9, 2024, to 42 months of imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $683,816.61 in ...

Once again, some resident in Rantoul, Illinois have signed, and Terry Workman filed petition sheets for what we would consider a premature referendum which seeks to thwart the newly formed district ...

The Former Wesley Township Clerk, Sarah Norton, appointed to the position in July of 2018 and resigned in Aug 2019, has signed an Affidavit acknowledging what we knew all along; that the FOIA denials ...

ILLINOIS (ECWd) – With the sudden interest in the Federal government’s payments to POLITICO subscriptions, we decided to update an article from several years ago on the public monies paid to Capitol ...

Dalzell, Ill. (ECWd) – The Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) has issued a determination that the Dalzell Fire Protection District violated the Open… ...