From the Chicago Tribune: We’ll have cranberry sauce and talk politics.
From the State’s Attorney: CESAR C. ORTIZ SENTENCED TO THIRTEEN YEARS IN THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL SEXUAL ASSAULT The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office announces that Cesar C. Ortiz, 40, of Harvard, Illinois was sentenced to 13 years […]
Future President Donald Trump’s threats to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada have already paid off. Contrary to the critics of these threats, the price of goods coming from south and north of the border will not increase. Why? Because the […]
Another article tells of the election petition challenges to three Harvard School Board members. Election challenges in municipal contests are harder to track because they are not conducted not at the county level, but by village board or city council members. In […]
So the Illinois Supreme Court backs up Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in her ridiculous treatment of Jesse Smollett’s fake hate crime. Here’s Special Prosecutor Dan Webb’s reaction: The Illinois Supreme Court reached this decision notwithstanding the fact that the Cook […]
From State Rep. Dan Ugaste: Illinois unemployment rate remained at 5.3% in October 2024 Based on the preliminary figures released by the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES), the unemployment rate remained unchanged from the 5.3% confirmed for the previous month of September. This […]
From the County Clerk: Electoral Board hearings will be held for the docket set for December 2nd at 10:30am.
From the Co;roner: McHenry County Coroner, Dr. Michael Rein, announced that his office was contacted on November 24, 2024 at around 11:00 pm by Woodstock Police Department to investigate the death of Gregory Rokus, age 53 of Woodstock. Mr. Rokus was involved […]
From the Lake in the Hills Police:
From the U.S. Attorney: Federal Judge Sentences Man to More Than 14 Years in Prison for Carjacking Vehicles at Gunpoint in Chicago .CHICAGO — A federal judge has sentenced a man to fourteen and a half years in prison for carjacking multiple […]
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From the Lake in the Hills Police:
Found in the Daily Herald are one high school and one grade school graded in the top 10% by the State:
From the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District: Fatal Vehicle Crash on Kimball Avenue On Sunday, November 24, 2024, at 9:56 p.m., the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District and Woodstock Police Department responded to a vehicle crash reported in the 400 block of E. Kimball Avenue. While […]
From Inside Climate News: As Illinois’ Governor Recruits Data Centers, Chicagoans’ Electricity Bills Are Getting More Expensive – Inside Climate News Gov. JB Pritzker said data centers are a huge piece of Illinois’ economic future, and the governor is not alone. There’s […]
From Woodstock Police:
The Black Box ad from Wonder Lake:
The Black Box ad from the Village of Johnsburg:
From the State’s Attorney: MICHAEL A. BUFFANO SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS IN THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR CHILD PORNOGRAPHY Patrick D. Kenneally, McHenry County State’s Attorney, announces that Michael A. Buffano, 33, of Fox Lake, IL, was sentenced to seven years […]
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Woodstock Police enforce theat law:
From the Woodstock Police:
In 1974, Milton Pikarsky, head of the Chicago Transit Authority, said the Regional Transportation Authority referendum had to be passed was so the CTA’s overnight could continue. This past Saturday, the current CTA President Dorval Carter trotted out the same argument for […]
From the Lake in the Hills Police:
The Chicago Sun-Times editorialized ecstatically about the passage of the McHenry County Conservation District’s referendum. Read the first paragraph: The vote totals are finally in across the metropolis, and it is a win for nature, conservation, wildlife habitat — and people. [Emphasis […]
The Black Box ad of the Hampshire Park District:
Looking only at taxable income, this YouTube gives a good explanation:
Reading a piece in Vanity Fair by Molly Jong-Fast reminded me of my orientation session at the United State’s Bureau (now the Office of Management and Budget) of the Budget in 1965. I was newly-hired as a Management Intern with responsibility for […]
From State Rep Jeff Keicher: Speaking during debate on the House floor against legislation to extend several Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts, Rep. Jeff Keicher again called out the abuse of TIFs and their harm to taxpayers. Keicher has been an outspoken critic of […]
From the McHenry County Transportation Department: Paulson Road Township Bridge Closure WOODSTOCK, Ill. – The McHenry County Division of Transportation and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) have closed the Paulson Road Township Bridge over the north branch of the Kishwaukee River in […]