In December of 2022, the Mahomet Township Supervisor, Aaron Wheeler, and Township Clerk, David Parsons, filed a Complaint against seven township residents because they were critical of Mahomet ...

August 25th, 2020 the Coles County State’s Attorney Jessie Danley issued a press release authored by Rhonda Parker, a paralegal in his office according to the metadata in the file. The press release ...

In January we reported that Kattie Abbey, the Jersey County Treasurer, was under Illinois State Police investigation for ...

With deep sadness, we report that Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of Open The Books – “Every Dime. Online. In Real Time.” passed away over the weekend. See Press Release below. As former candidate ...

Both are affiliated with Bill Thomas, and we wrote about the Logan County Economic Development Partnership in early November – read this. Thomas did update the corporate filing with the Illinois ...

Edgar County Watchdogs, Inc. has been in operation for more than a decade – only through dogged reporting can faith in local government return. It has been an exciting decade for us and for the public ...

Coles County State’s Attorney Jessie Danley filed criminal charges today against former Oakland Fire Protection District Trustee Kiley Willison and Jerry Willison, the father of Kiley. Kiley was ...

After we published articles on the Orland Fire Protection District spending $432k on Media Relations and $18k to diversity consultant while she was incarcerated in a federal penitentiary, the Orland ...

After the April 1, 2025, election, the Village of Dolton, Illinois will have a new Mayor along with a new majority of trustees aligned with the new Mayor. Hopefully, Tiffany Henyard will never ...

People should be able to trust that those operating vehicles displaying Municipal Police license plates and police equipment such as the lights used to pull people over, that there are legitimate law ...

We were present in the courtroom with video cameras (the court authorized extended media coverage) in 2018 when Samuel J. Byndom was arraigned on felony eavesdropping for his alleged attempts at ...

Imagine being a child and riding your bicycle to school, only to be struck in a crosswalk by a car, and the driver leaves the scene. Imagine being the parent of that child. Yes. It happened. Jackie ...