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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is yet another one of the cases where you simply have to say, you can’t make this stuff up. WAND News ran this story two days ago. The named DCFS employee in the story, Deborah Riley, jumped out ...

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… ...

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

Springfield, Ill. (ECWd) – UPDATE: Edited to replace “Champaign County” with “Sangamon County” According to the Veterans Assistance Commission of Sangamon County, this is what lead up to the VAC ...

There have been many conversations and publications lately concerning compensation being paid to current Thornton Township ...

There is a Carbon Capture and Storage (“CCS”) project proposed to be located just off the (Edgar County) Illinois-Indiana ...

We have been witnessing a lot of issues with wind farms for the past 2 years. We are now monitoring and watching to see what happens to a property when wind turbines are constructed nearby. This ...