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.

Residents of DuPage Township looking for more insight into a lawsuit over the firing of a township employee, financial irregularities and even a charge of sexual harassment by a trustee were left with no answers last night as three of five trustees failed to appear and the regular board meeting lacked a quorum.

Indian Prairie School Superintendent Karen Sullivan sided with many other Illinois school officials opposed to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s school funding plan even though their districts would have received more funding under the governor’s plan.