By: Diane Benjamin The former Speaker of House in Illinois reports to a Federal prison today. Of course it’s 7.5 years in minimum security. Note no one in the State of Illinois prosecuted him. I filed a FOIA request with the City of Bloomington that would have been received by them on September 15th. Your […]
By: Diane Benjamin More information on this story: https://blnnews.com/2025/10/01/bloomington-foia-fail-planning-commission/ Just so everyone is clear on what happened with my FOIA request, I’m printing these screenshots from the emails I sent to Corporate lawyer Chris Spanos. I consider Chris one of the good guys, but even he has limits in what he can admit. I’m surprised […]
By: Diane Benjamin If you still don’t understand laws in Bloomington only apply to citizen peons, this story should convince you. Follow-up to this story: https://blnnews.com/2025/09/13/strike-3-bloomington/ After the Planning Commission postponed hearing the case for allowing a homeless shelter in a single family neighborhood, staff hung around to answer questions and hear comments from the […]
By: Diane Benjamin Before the Council voted to raise your property taxes, The City Clerk made a reference to an emailed Public Comment. Later in that meeting Alderman Sheila Montney referenced the same email. I FOIA’d that email. Staff tried to tell me it was exempt from disclosure. It isn’t. They obviously need training in […]
By: Diane Benjamin 1) The stole/scarf type things the Council members were wearing were gifts from the visiting people from India. Most of that isn’t on microphone, so the purpose is unknown. See 11:20 on the video. . 2) I have reasons to believe the Danenberger/Henricks vote flip flops was a setup to make their […]
