MARION—When driving along on the new construction through Marion, one will NOT be able to miss this the sign you will find below.
The sign is located in an area of Marion adjacent to the massive amount of construction ongoing at the Interstate 64 interchange. it is located just to the East of I-57, on the north side of Morgan Avenue.
Do we have material regarding this sign on here at the site?
Sort of.
FORMER Harrisburg Mayor Eric Gregg….and goodbuddy of Marion mayor Bob Butler
The material in question is in the process of being examined and put together. It will be the culmination of months worth of work that actually began long before Eric Gregg took his job with the state at the Illinois Prisoner Review Board in April, but intensified when Gregg refused to give up his mayoral seat and all the perks that went with it, as well as the other jobs he was holding—and still holds, to the best of our knowledge and information—all against Illinois law. One of the multitudinous questionable things we were looking at as regards what Gregg was doing was the handling of Harrisburg’s TIF district, which we examined and began contacting others about. In the course of making these contacts, we learned that everything Gregg was doing with the TIF district was mirrored on what Marion was doing with its TIF district.
And when we got into that, we walked into something that’s kind of like through-the-looking-glass weird.
Suffice it to say: If it hadn’t been for Eric Gregg’s arrogance, hubris and utter inability to tell the truth, we would never have stumbled upon the things in Marion that we had, things that lead us to more in-depth scrutiny of Ryan Hughes and the cocaine trail, things that lead us to more examination of what Brittany Lane does for a “living,” things that are mind-bogglingly irregular in the realm of the area’s public offices, public accounts, private banks, and more than just one paragraph here can even begin to tell you about.
That’s all we’re going to say about it now. The material is being worked into a series of articles that are scheduled to begin in the September-October issue, on stands September 11. It will continue with the October edition, scheduled for release on October 2. At that time, we’re taking a five-week break with the print edition, and will be back with the November edition, scheduled for release on November 6. It is likely that this series of articles may run well past that date and into the November-December edition, to be released right before Thanksgiving.
Stay tuned. Williamson County will be floored by this information. Saline County, it appears, won’t be far behind.
