According to a Coles County Sheriff’s Department Press Release, Andrew Towell and Katelynn Bowman, both from Paris, Illinois, ...

We conducted a routine audit of campaign donations using the State Board of Elections database and certain keywords. One of ...

The Orland Fire Protection District entered into a contract with a “consultant” to provide diversity consulting to the ...

A lot has happened since our last update on Tiffany Henyard, the Village of Dolton, and Thornton Township. Township trustee ...

Two Thornton Township Trustees published a press release detailing why they will not attend the special township meeting ...

A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging the former Wayne City police chief with selling forfeited items ...

Public bodies are prohibited from advocating for or against ballot measures or candidates for public office (electioneering), ...

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 ...

Current Township Trustee Kathleen Kennedy was on the park committee when this decision was discussed and acted upon. For the more than a year, there has been an ongoing dispute between several ...

The Rochester Fire Protection District Trustees and current Rochester FPD Chief John Archer have been ignoring the law and the District’s internal purchasing policy for years. Upon being contacted for ...

We filed a motion to intervene in former Coles County Assistant State’s Attorney Brady Allen’s criminal case in Coles County asking the Court to unseal the previously impounded mugshots of Defendant ...

After years of success in rooting out public corruption and malfeasance in Edgar County, we still hear the claim, Edgar County is the most corrupt county in the state. Local success led to people in ...