Shelby County, Illinois, held an emergency meeting this week in order to elect a new County Board Chairman and Vice Chairman.

The Dolton Trustees who were served with a frivolous lawsuit by Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard and Dolton Trustees Stanley ...

Paris, IL. (ECWd) - A new filing for a preliminary injunction as part of a civil right lawsuit in Federal Court has asked the court to close the Edgar County Jail until such time that it meets minimum ...

Shelby County Board Member Teresa Boehm’s next pre-trial is scheduled for November 18, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. via Zoom in Shelby County Circuit Court, with a Motion Hearing scheduled for December 16th at ...

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 ...

Paper trails are like bread crumbs and while the birds may have eaten most of them during this cold snap,(or was it a rag that wiped the computer hard drives?), James Kelly has left one crumb the size ...

From Illinois Answers Project: A few years ago, Coles County Jail promised to stop using electrified “stun cuffs” to shock people restrained in chairs. How much has changed? ECWd note: Current Coles ...

In another defeat for Tiffany Henyard, Village of Dolton Mayor Pro Tem Jason House, and Trustees Brittney Norwood, Kiana Belcher, and Tammy Brown, filed for Temporary Restraining Orders against Dolton ...

A week or so ago we published an article (click here) showing how the McGrath Law Office, Village Attorney for Sanford, Illinois had filed false paperwork purporting to be nothing more than a ...

Kankakee County Board Chairman Andrew Wheeler has resigned from office just prior to a discussion and vote to remove him from ...

West Point, Illinois, is a small municipality located in Hancock County, with a population of around 140 people. After ...

A recent Freedom of Information Act request that also included media questions to the Shelby County State’s Attorney resulted ...