Tim Baldermann, who collects checks from four government entities, is maneuvering to add another high paying government position to his resume by assuming the House seat being vacated by a retiring Margo McDermed (R-Mokena), sources tell the Will County Gazette.

The recently approved state budget hardly makes Illinois the beacon of fiscal prudence that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative leaders claim it is, budgetary analysts at Wirepoints say.

An audit of the Will County Sheriff’s Office is the only way to get to the bottom of charges in a lawsuit of faked payroll records by higher-ups in the office, says Will County Board member Steve Balich (R-Homer Glen). But Balich says his calls for an audit have been shrugged off by the Democratically controlled board.

House Speaker Michael Madigan used his absolute power over the legislative process to move legislation to the floor on Friday that exchanges Illinois’ constitutionally mandated flat income tax with a progressive tax.

The Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) are insistent that Bolingbrook Village Clerk Carol Penning either hired herself as her own assistant, or that a law was broken, if, as she insists, someone else did the hiring.

Two bills in Springfield sponsored by State Rep. Natalie Manley (D-Joliet) are giving some local GOP leaders and fiscal watchdogs fits.

DuPage Township Trustee Alyssia Benford, who filed a complaint in January against former DuPage Township Supervisor William Mayer’s use of campaign funds, described the April 3 preliminary hearing by the State Board of Elections as “contentious.”

Clarence Henderson, one of the key figures of the early civil rights movement in America, is the featured speaker at the DuPage Township Republican Organization Lincoln Day Brunch on Sunday, March 24.

A State Board of Elections hearing into some questionable campaign transfers by former DuPage Township Supervisor William Mayer was cancelled because Mayer could not be served notice of the hearing, according to DuPage Trustee Alyssia Benford, who filed the complaint about the transfers with the board.

DuPage Township Supervisor William Mayer announced his resignation last night at the Board of Trustees monthly meeting under mounting pressure from a government watchdog group over what it calls gross mishandling of the township’s accounts.

DuPage Township Trustee Alyssia Benford has turned to the state Board of Elections to clarify whatever connections a $10,000 advance in salary to Township Supervisor William Mayer might have had with a $10,000 transfer from his campaign account.

The Illinois attorney general is looking into possible multiple violations of the state’s Open Meetings Act (OMA) in DuPage Township.

Matt Quigley, the 32-year-old Naperville resident challenging newly sworn-in Congresswoman Lauren Underwood in the 14th, is asking her to explain some questionable voting practices first brought to the public’s attention by the Will County Gazette.

DuPage Township Trustee Alyssia Benford has asked Supervisor William Mayer to resign as his ethical problems and the township’s legal problems continue to mount.

The prospects of reopening Lincoln-Way North High School through the creation of a new K-12 district are still alive with Summit Hill District 161’s latest decision: to seek proposals for a feasibility study.

An Oswego man is filing a complaint with the Illinois State Board of Elections concerning discrepancies he says he discovered in U.S. Rep-elect Lauren Underwood’s voting history.

At the last minute, a consulting group backed out of a study into the feasibility of Summit Hill School District 161 reopening Lincoln-Way North High School through the establishment of a new K-12 district.

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.