The Thornton Township Meeting of the Electors was held in a packed gymnasium at the South Suburban Community College. The ...

As suspected, Objectors filed their objections to the petitions asking for a referendum question to abandon electing Rantoul Village Trustees by district. Just as in 2023, the “bottom line” of the ...

The Illinois Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) has issued a determination that the Dalzell Fire Protection District violated the Open Meetings Act (“OMA”) when the majority of a ...

A little over a month ago, RIDES Mass Transit District (“RIDES-MTD”) filed suit naming Edgar County Treasurer Don Wiseman as Defendant seeking the $152,000.00 + they believe should have been paid to ...

We questioned portions of the Illinois Governor’s Executive Order to shut down restaurants and bars in this article March, 15th, 2020. We took the position such action fails to provide people their ...

A Federal Civil Rights lawsuit has been filed in the Central District of Illinois naming Tad Mayhall in his individual ...

A positive development has occurred in the public records denial (previous articles here and here) complaint I lodged against the Glen Ellyn Police Department. Joshua Jones, from the Public Access ...

Today, the 4th Appellate Court reversed the decision of the 5th Circuit Court in granting the Clark County Park District’s Motion to Dismiss an Open Meetings Act suit brought by ECWd’s Kirk Allen and ...

Since May of 2021, Tiffany Henyard, Mayor of Dolton, Illinois has had her personal security detail follow her around nearly 24 hours a day. Payroll has exceeded $258,000 paid by Dolton taxpayers ...

The petition to intervene in a mask-related lawsuit by approximately 29,000 educators, teachers unions, and related associations was DENIED yesterday in Sangamon County Circuit Court. From the Denial ...

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 ...

This “Carlinville getting sued for FOIA violations” headline is becoming so routine, we are thinking of coming up with some kind of a numbering system just for them. On August 11, 2017, Mr. Robert ...