On November 21, 2025, former Dolton Police Chief Lewis Lacey pled GUILTY to bankruptcy fraud. Lacey was appointed to his position during the disastrous Mayoral reign of ...

For years we have taken the position that there are answers to every local government question a person might have if they are willing to do the work to find it. We have also said, many times, that ...

State Representative Edgar Gonzalez, Jr., Chicago, has introduced House Bill 1634, seeking to adopt the vehicle emissions standards of California. The bill basically requires that “Illinois ...

According to the Court Docket, Will County Board Member Jackie Traynere was charged (again) on August 18, 2025, with failure to yield right of way to pedestrian in crosswalk. Traynere is schedule to ...

It would take a book to cover all the things that have taken place in the Coles County State’s Attorney’s office in the dealings with now convicted Assistant State’s Attorney Brady Allen. We first ...

We exposed over two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of checks signed by the former Dolson Township Supervisor and his wife in this article. The Illinois State Police have responded to our Freedom of ...

House Bill 3571 passed both Houses this past week with Senate Floor Amendment 1. SA1 permits counties and municipalities to hire non-citizens as deputy sheriffs and police officers in the same manner ...

Kami Miller and Ashley Miller (yes they are related) both pled guilty in Federal Court, the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Urbana Division of crimes against the ...

In another defeat for Tiffany Henyard, Village of Dolton Mayor Pro Tem Jason House, and Trustees Brittney Norwood, Kiana Belcher, and Tammy Brown, filed for Temporary Restraining Orders against Dolton ...

With the sudden interest in the Federal government’s payments to POLITICO subscriptions, we decided to update an article from several years ago on the public monies paid to Capitol Fax and POLITICO ...

An off-duty Bolingbrook Police Officer was involved in an apparent road-rage incident while driving through Oswego, Illinois this past February. During the incident, and according to the police ...

Cody Brands filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Shelby County and its dive team on December 23, 2024. Mr. Brands is an associate member of The Coalition Opposing Governmental Secrecy ...