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 ...

We first wrote about this in our article entitled “Sauk Village Mayor: “You Can’t Say Their Names“” back in November of 2025, after a village meeting where the mayor attempted to shut down Ms.

From today’s Court Docket: Jury Trial resumed at 9:00 a.m. All parties present. Jurors present. Continued sworn testimony heard on behalf of the State. People’s flash drive Exhibit 2, 3 and 4 admitted ...

The Village of Dolton has filed a lawsuit against Fifth Third Bank to recover nearly $1.9 millions dollars’ worth of checks signed by former Mayor Tiffany Henyard ...

Illinois Candidate for the United States Senate, Allison Salinas (Pekin, IL.), has been sued in Circuit Court, Fayette County, Illinois. The basics of this complaint is that the Salinas campaign ...

The Illinois Appellate Court, Fifth District, has revived Kotomi Dorman’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and struck down a trial-court order that required her to pay for ...

During our routine review of Auditor General audit reports for state agencies, we came across the 2022 audit report posted in 2023.  It contained some information we were ...

On November 5, 2024, we published an article entitled “Three Accident(s), DUI, Drugs, Prosecution Failures, Violation of Federal CDL Law, Death of Deputy” which was part one of a series explaining how ...

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and Tuscola Police Department arrested Jill Harp who was later charged with two Class 1 Felony Counts of terrorism and two Class 3 Felony Counts of false bomb alarm ...

The CRIS Rural Mass Transit District (“CRISMTD”) has never filed its required annual financial reports with the Illinois Comptroller. This issue is nothing new to us, as early on we found our local ...

We requested certain records from the Jefferson County Sheriff after news of the arrest of Nason, Illinois, Mayor Michelle McKinney. Initially, they only provided us with the mug shot and said they ...

Since we have filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Village of Oswego and Village of Bolingbrook for their failure to comply with the Freedom of Information Act, Oswego ...