Our previous article referenced a complaint I sent to the Director of the Secretary of State Police (read it here) alleging fraudulent Municipal Police license plates and police equipment on two ...

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

Jackie Traynere, one of the administrators in DuPage Township, tendered her resignation on April 17, 2025, with an effective ...

Too little, too late. When former Attorney General Lisa Madigan was in office, we routinely saw the Public Access Counselor’s ...

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 ...

Reposted with permission from Southern Illinois Watchdogs: A Nason City Council meeting took a dramatic and chaotic turn ...

Once again, former Lincoln-Way School District Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie’s federal criminal trial is delayed due to his current and ongoing medical condition(s). He is still collecting more than ...

Prior to former State’s Attorney Nichole Kroncke leaving office, Steven Decker was charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors related to his driving through a cemetery in Moweaqua. We understand ...

The outgoing Mayor of Nason, Illinois, Michelle McKinney, was allegedly arrested today for matters unrelated to Village business. For reasons not yet known, she was cuffed and muzzled before being ...

Village of Rochester, Illinois Mayor Joseph Suerdieck provided a letter to the Editor of the State Journal-Register in relation to the settlement in a lawsuit brought against the Village after ...

A Freedom of Information Act request for search warrants and subpoenas sent to the Iroquois County Public Health Department in 2022 resulted in the court sealing those records the same day of our ...

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 ...