THE LEADS
Active investigative threads and connections we are mapping.
Kim, Oh, Kim Complaint, then Violation
She reported a broken water heater and asked for help with her yard. Within seven days she had been entered while she slept, had hot water conditioned on housework, been priced for grass she could not cut, and been told she never called.
The Corkboard: The Keeping Pets Burden
A housing authority letter says a tenant had an unauthorized cat in her unit. The lease bans animals that are kept. Illinois requires care, custody or control before that word is met — and HUD puts the burden of proof on the agency. Six burdens an accuser has to carry first.
The Cork Board: Threads We Are Following — October 2026
A county board member jailed, a mayor who kept his other seat, and a city's money night in Fairfield: the local threads we are following through Oct. 15.
The Cork Board: Threads We Are Following — September 2026
Three threads carried September in Wayne County — a federal seat filled by a non-resident, four termination notices answered by zero hearings, and a farm-payment ledger nobody counts.