NPR ILLINOIS: State’s Top Fiscal Watchdog Misspent Nearly $250K In Campaign Funds, High Court Finds Investigative Reporter and Editors ("IRE"): Four finalists selected for 2021 Golden Padlock Award ...

Facebook user Joy Schreiber noticed that the Illinois Bingo License and Tax Act permits local governments to conduct BINGO games “subject to” the restriction of a $10 maximum prize value for each game ...

For anyone interested in uncovering government corruption and observing public officials who show utter contempt for the public on a rolling basis, the Village of Orland Park is like a Chicagoland ...

Key language found in the laws for our public bodies sets the stage for all action taken. “may sue and be sued” What this law indicates is that Shelby County may sue and be sued. That is important to ...

We were provided with the receipts produce to Frank Ghorbani under the Freedom of Information Act for Thornton Township ...

While local propagandists continue to spread their fabricated narratives on certain issues, their selective outrage must once ...

We first wrote about his false reporting of economic interests in April of this year – (read it here). As it turns out, he filed an amended Statement of Economic Interest on August 1, 2018, and ...

We previously reported that 4 of the 5 commissioners cannot hold the office of Airport Authority Commissioner in Vermilion County because they are members of the governing body or an officer or ...

Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) – The Clark County Park District was served last week with an Ethics Complaint, pursuant to [5 ILCS 430/] the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, naming the following ...

The first police report was made by Mary Weimar who contacted the Police Chief to get him to investigate her YouTube channel for anything they could harass her with. She suggested using a folk song ...

Yesterday I filed a four-count lawsuit against the City of Carlinville for its refusal to produce public records requested on January 16, 2017. Pursuant to the Freedom Of Information Act (“FOIA”), ...

It was just a month or so ago that I asked the Heartland Community College to ask the Board of Trustees to reimburse the college for the “gifts” they received, paid for with taxpayer funds, during ...