Government watchdogs say they have no intention of heeding a DuPage Township trustee’s post-election day plea to “stop digging up the past” in reference to inquiries into some questionable expenditures by the township.

State Rep. Natalie Manley (D-Joliet) has a problem with her repeated claims on the campaign trail that she is a certified public accountant (CPA). She also has a problem with how long she’s claiming to have been a CPA.

DuPage Township faces action in federal court for calling in police to escort John Kraft of the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) from the township board meeting Oct. 23.

Key questions about State Rep. Natalie Manley (D-Joliet) and her campaign remain unanswered following a recent debate with her challenger, Alyssia Benford (R-Bolingbrook).

Summit Hill School District 161 is almost sure to move ahead with a feasibility study into establishing a new K-12 district, which would include the reopening of Lincoln-Way North High School, despite Lincoln-Way CHSD 210’s vote last week not to cooperate in the study.

Lying and political backbiting are near epidemic proportions on the DuPage Township Board. That’s the take from reports published by the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) on the sorry state of affairs in DuPage.

Retired Joliet City Manager Jim Hock could be on the verge of becoming a wealthy man.

William Mayer has been asked to resign from his job as DuPage Township Supervisor by Kirk Allen of the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW), over his alleged mishandling of township funds.

Alyssia Benford, GOP candidate for a 98th District House seat, is victim of a classic smear campaign by the political machine in Springfield. In addition to robocalls, fictional, near scandalous political mailers from incumbent Rep. Natalie Manley targeting Benford are coming out as well.

State Rep. Mark Batinick’s (R-Plainfield) opponent has been sending out campaign mailers with a message that Batinick could have dreamed up himself. In fact, he did.

The auditors of DuPage Township’s financial transactions who uncovered ambiguous reports of stolen cash and questionable money dealings should have recommended an investigation by law enforcement, a government watchdog group says.

Illegal Mexican immigrant and convicted rapist Miguel Luna was arrested 36 times for minor traffic offenses between 2001 and 2016, Will County sheriff and Circuit Court records show.

DuPage Township Supervisor William Mayer hired a law firm without the consent of the township's board as required by law, and memberships to civic groups were unlawfully paid for out of township funds in the latest irregularities uncovered by the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW).

Duane Bell, president of a youth football team in Bolingbrook, said that two DuPage Township Trustees mischaracterized his comments that appeared in a Will County Gazette story covering uneven township funding of local sports teams.

Nearly half a million dollars spent by DuPage Township on community groups over the past five years has not only piqued the interest of a government watchdog group, but has led to allegations of racial discrimination for favoritism of one group over another.

In May, information technology expert, Anthony D’Andrea, had his fill of helping DuPage Township.

Will County board member Steve Balich is desperate for answers into why an undocumented immigrant, who in May pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault, was even in this country in the first place.

Fired DuPage Township employee Linda Youngs won her job back and will receive back pay in a settlement of a case she brought against three members of the township board who voted to fire her during a March 27 board meeting, her attorney Joe Giamanco told the Will County Gazette.

The Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), a union of graduate students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), has inadvertently drawn military veterans into a battle over controversial legislation in the state House that would unionize research assistants who help teach courses under the GEO’s umbrella.

Will County board member Steve Balich finally got some answers to his questions about the number and amount of bonuses given out to county employees over the past year after he erupted over the issue at a May 1 Finance Committee meeting.