We published this article yesterday and outlined that we would update when we hear back from the entities referenced, Arcola and Mattoon. After publication, the City of ...

Yesterday, the Village of Dolton, Illinois was ordered to pay our attorney fees in the amount of $41,029.45, our costs in the amount of $1,494.02, and a civil penalty ...

This appears to be yet another one of those times when all you can say is you can’t make this crap up. The Chairman of the Police Committee of Arcola, Illinois, ...

On July 8th, 2025, the Pekin Police Department was notified of evidence relating to an ongoing Solicitation of Murder incident. The Pekin Police Investigations Division immediately initiated an ...

There is a Carbon Capture and Storage (“CCS”) project proposed to be located just off the (Edgar County) Illinois-Indiana state line. Landowners on the Illinois side of the border need to know that ...

White County Jailer Suspended after being caught on camera. According to the Wayne County Press (here): A White County correctional officer has been suspended ...

Responses to a Freedom of Information Act request indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is continuing its investigation of Paris School District 95, at least as late as May of 2025. In May ...

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 ...

During the legislative hearing last year, a Representative made a comment regarding the Illinois Department of Natural Resources leasing farm grounds. The concern was if IDNR could lease out their ...

The Dolton Trustees who were served with a frivolous lawsuit by Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard and Dolton Trustees Stanley Brown and Andrew Holmes have filed a Motion for Rule 137 Sanctions against ...

The Oak Brook Park District has apparently decided that in order to receive unredacted attorney invoices, an elected Park District Commissioner must sign a ...

Dolton’s former Assistant Police Chief Lewis Lacey is no longer listed as a certified police officer in the ILETSB officer certification database. Lacey is the officer who was indicted by a federal ...