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

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 ...

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 ...

Last Tuesday the Shelby County Farm Sale TRO case had yet another hearing in which neither the county chairman nor the county ...

The resignations of the former Shelby County Chairman Bobby Orman and Vice Chairman Mark Bennett had no impact on their re-election to the County Board, even after relentless attacks from the local ...

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

UPDATE 9-14-2020: Catherine Wojnarowski, through her attorney, has stated that she does not remember sending this message, and even if she did, she considers it an invasion of her privacy. Catherine ...

We were contacted over a laundry list of concerns for the small community of Yale, Illinois, located in Jasper County. As we normally do, a Freedom of Information Act request was submitted. A copy of ...

Elected Officials of municipalities are supposed to pay amounts owed to the municipality on time. After hearing about compensation being overpaid for years, we submitted a FOIA request for copies of ...

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