Just as exposed in this article, our own Illinois Government reports found on the Auditor General’s website is all the evidence we need to see the level of identified fraud ...

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) lawsuit against the village of Oswego for allegations of violations of FOIA when it denied requests for information related to the alleged road rage ...

I am honored to announce that the Coles County Jail has recently completed the annual inspection process through the Illinois Department of Corrections, and our facility has been declared compliant ...

Edited 9-3-2025 @1918: The statement within the police report attributed to Judge Sullivan appears to be incorrect. See this article (HERE). Edgar County Judge Matthew Sullivan was arrested on August ...

Former Dolton Administrator Keith Freeman’s change of plea on his federal bankruptcy fraud charges postponed until March 4, 2026. This is the fourth or fifth ...

After almost a month, we have obtained the first set of records we requested in a Freedom of Information Act request to the Coles County State’s Attorney. We have no idea why our request took so long, ...

The investigation into the Highway Commissioner in Murdock Township holding office while being a resident in another county continues. October 3, 2025, I was told the following by the Douglas County ...

Nicholas Banning almost died while incarcerated at the Shelby County Jail during the term of former Sheriff Koonce. We first exposed the lawsuit brought by Banning in this article. We reported on the ...

We recently wrote about Milton Township’s claims that a nonprofit set up and operated with public funds, public vehicles, public board members, public ...

The Livingston/Ford/Iroquois County Rural Transit Committee Meeting was held last night to discuss the announced ceasing of operations and dissolution of the ...

The Illinois Local Records Act outlines key transparency obligations for public bodies in the state. Most folks are not familiar with the law because the focus has been on ...

Filing of levies of taxing districts.     (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, all taxing districts, other than a school ...