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Cal Skinner

This is a journal of news and opinion designed to bring to light matters of public interest and to encourage public participation in the governmental process. Emphasis will be on McHenry County, but Illinois state news will be covered. Articles and photos are copyrighted and may not be reproduced without explicit written permission.

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Recent Posts

  • McHenry Grade School District Seeks 4% Property Tax Increase November 7, 2025
  • What McHenry County Makes It Difficult to Find November 7, 2025
  • Ex-Crystal Lake Clerk Nick Kachirouibas Learns Prison Sentence Today November 7, 2025
  • Redux of George Ryan’s CDL Scandal Looming? November 7, 2025
  • FOID Card Turned Over to Police November 7, 2025
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Marter Says Underwood Supporter Wishes Him Dead

Cal SkinnerMay 1, 2025May 1, 2025

From congressional candidate Marter: Jim Marter Demands Lauren Underwood Condemn Political Violence After Supporter’s Death Wish Jim Marter, Republican candidate for Illinois’ 14th Congressional District, is calling on Democrat opponent Lauren Underwood to immediately and unequivocally condemn political violence following a disturbing […]

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Pot Found in Alcohol Stop

Cal SkinnerMay 1, 2025April 30, 2025

From the Lake in the Hills Police: 4/29/2025 12:53:00 AM DRIVING UNDER NFLUENCE. W Algonquin Rd / Boulder Dr Prytula, Oleksii.; M/W; 33 years of age; S. Annandale Dr., Lake in the Hills. Charges: RELEASED WITH NOTICE TO APPEAR

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Real Estate Developer Gets Six Years for Bank Fraud

Cal SkinnerApril 30, 2025April 30, 2025

From the U.S. Attorney: REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER SENTENCED TO MORE THAN SIX YEARS IN PRISON FOR EMBEZZLING MILLIONS FROM THE FAILED WASHINGTON FEDERAL BANK IN CHICAGO CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced a real estate developer to more than […]

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Blago as GOP U.S. Senate Candidate?

Cal SkinnerApril 30, 2025April 30, 2025

How could anyone take this idea seriously? The night before Rob Blagojevich was sworn in for State Representative was my last night as State Rep. Political analyst Russ Stewart’s take: “For the much-maligned former governor and ex-con Rod Blagojevich the number is […]

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Food Welfare Fraudster Convicted

Cal SkinnerApril 30, 2025April 30, 2025

From the U.S, Attorney: Owner of Chicago-Area Convenience Stores Convicted of Defrauding Low-Income Food Program for Women and Children CHICAGO — A federal jury has convicted the owner of several Chicago-area convenience stores of scheming to defraud a low-income food program for […]

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Chicago Thief Steals from Cary’s Dollar General

Cal SkinnerApril 30, 2025May 1, 2025

From the Cary Police: 04/27/2025, Arrest Time: 5:50 PM Arrest Location: Dollar General, 366 NORTHWEST HIGHWAY Arrestee Name: WALKER, LEON, Sex – M, Race – B, Age – 24 Street: N. LOREL AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60644 Charge: RETAIL THEFT, FELONY (over $300) […]

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Motorcyclist Who Died in Woodstock Identified

Cal SkinnerApril 29, 2025April 29, 2025

From the Coroner: McHenry County Coroner, Dr. Michael Rein, announced that his office was contacted on April 23, 2025 at around 6:30am by Woodstock Police Department to investigate the death of Nicholas Panosian, age 40, of Harvard. Mr. Panosian was spotted in […]

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POW/MIA Honor Chair Donated to Courthouse by Rolling Thunder Chapter 2

Cal SkinnerApril 29, 2025April 29, 2025

From the Sheriff’s Office: Sheriff’s Office Presented with POW/MIA Honor Chair Rolling Thunder Illinois Chapter 2, a local POW/MIA advocacy group, presented the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office with a “Chair of Honor” during a ceremony held on Thursday, April 24, in front […]

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Road Closure Northwest of Harvard for Bridge Replacement

Cal SkinnerApril 29, 2025April 28, 2025

From the McHenry County Transportation Department: Hunter Road Bridge Project WOODSTOCK, IL – The McHenry County Division of Transportation announces the start of the Hunter Road Bridge Project. The project is scheduled to start May 12 and is expected to be completed […]

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Marengo Police Cite Driver for Lack of Front License Plate, among Other Violations

Cal SkinnerApril 29, 2025April 29, 2025

It’s rare to find a police department `writing tickets for people without front license plates. I remember introducing a bill to eliminate them fify-some years ago. The your Township Assessor in Belvider agreed and provided some data for me. Now comes this […]

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LaHood on Trump’s First 100 Days, NPR Disagrees, Sun-Times’ Take

Cal SkinnerApril 29, 2025April 29, 2025

From Congressman Ray LaHood: LaHood Congratulates President Trump on His First 100 Days Washington, D.C. – yesterday, Congressman Darin LaHood (IL-16) issued the following statement on President Trump’s first 100 days in office of his second term. “In just 100 days, President Trump and […]

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Two More Students at Parkland Academy Have Mental Health Problems

Cal SkinnerApril 29, 2025April 28, 2025

From the Lake in the Hills Police:

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Americans for Prosperity Use Mail To Bring Pressure on Ness Not to Vote for Costly Pension Bill

Cal SkinnerApril 28, 2025April 28, 2025

Found in mailboxes of State Rep. Sue Ness’ constituents: I have never seen anything like this on any pension bill since 1973.

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Family Burned Out of Home Near Johnsburg

Cal SkinnerApril 28, 2025April 28, 2025

From the McHenry Fire Protection District: House Fire in Unincorporated Johnsburg On Monday, April 28, 2025, at approximately 12:05 p.m., the McHenry Township Fire Protection District (MTFPD) was dispatched to the 2000 block of W. Oakleaf Dr. in unincorporated Johnsburg for a […]

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UPDATE: McHenry County Attendees at Illinois GOP Bryon Donalds Fundraiser

Cal SkinnerApril 28, 2025April 29, 2025

Finally finding time to upload some more photos from Friends of McHenry County Blog. Here’s a photo of a table of McHenry County notables attending the Illinois Republican Party fundraiser last night: LEFT TO RIGHT:  Deena Kreiger-McHenry County Board,  Kara Tomas, Lake […]

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Debate Continues Between Republican and Democratic Party Board Members

Cal SkinnerApril 28, 2025April 28, 2025

Crystal Lake McHenry County Board member Terri Greeno, a Republican, disagreed with the critique by Crystal Lake Board member John Collins, a Democrat, of McHenry Township’s Tim Beck’s column. Now, Collins has supplied a rebuttal to Greeno, which appears below: Rebuttal to […]

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Ex-District 300 Superintendent Norm Wetzel Has 28th Highest Public Pension

Cal SkinnerApril 28, 2025April 28, 2025

From the Illinois Policy Institute: Illinois’ top 50 state pensioners can expect an average lifetime payout of $8.47 million despite just $333,844 being contributed during their careers. That’s $1 in, $25 out, thanks to taxpayers. It’s good to be in the top […]

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Intriguing Fire Protection District Intergovernmental Cooperation in Western McHenry County

Cal SkinnerApril 28, 2025April 25, 2025

Taking a look at the McHenry County Board’s Law and Government/Liquor Committee agenda for this month, I found an intriguing bit of information. John Kimmel, whom I’ve known as the Marengo Fire Protection and Rescue District Chief is also the Chief of […]

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Another Parkland Academy Incident

Cal SkinnerApril 28, 2025April 25, 2025

From the Lake in the Hills Police:

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More on the Closure of a Rockford Abortion Clinic

Cal SkinnerApril 27, 2025April 27, 2025

Frm the Thomas More Society: This Abortion Facility Is Shutting Down Permanently Back in 2011, Thomas More Society confronted abortionist Dr. Dennis Christensen’s Northern Illinois Women’s Center in Rockford, Illinois—which boasted a litany of health violations on top of endangering the lives […]

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Sunday Funnies

Cal SkinnerApril 27, 2025April 27, 2025

The Illinois Polilcy Insitute cartonist Eric Allie:

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Here’s a Strange Agenda Item

Cal SkinnerApril 27, 2025April 26, 2025

From the Village of Oakwood Hills: “Discuss Village of Port Barrington”

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Demonstrators and LaHood in Different Parts of His District

Cal SkinnerApril 26, 2025April 26, 2025

From The Center Square: IL U.S. Rep. LaHood reacts to protesters’ Medicaid concerns (The Center Square) – Dozens of people gathered and marched to Illinois U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood’s office in Normal to protest what he described as Congress’ responsibility to eliminate […]

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Still Another Unfunded Mandate on the Horizon for Schools

Cal SkinnerApril 26, 2025April 25, 2025

From The Center Square: Legislation would mandate public schools be equipped with silent alarms (The Center Square) – Illinois may join a growing number of states that would equip public schools with silent panic alarms in case of an emergency.   New […]

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Deep State – 1967

Cal SkinnerApril 26, 2025April 25, 2025

II guess I was a new (very temporary) member of the Deep State in 1966-67. A Civil Service Management Intern hire at the United States Bureau of the Budget, I was assigned the Small Business Administration’s budget. In 1964, my father had […]

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Social Security Is Like a Ponzi Scheme, Except It is Legal

Cal SkinnerApril 26, 2025April 26, 2025

CPA Tim Beck of McHenry Township set Crystal Lake County Board member off with his critique of McHenry County NOW’s “We Resist’ demonstration on Randall Road. Collilns’ rebuttal inspired a rejoinder from Crystal Lake County Board member Terri Greeno I’m wondering if […]

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Spit on an Officer, Go Directly to Jail with Every Possible Violation Charged

Cal SkinnerApril 26, 2025April 23, 2025

A Chicago 24-year old spit on a Cary officer after being stopped for From the Cary Police Department Arrest Date – 04/20/2025, Arrest Time – 3:40 PM Arrest Location – PEARL ST / DAVIS LN Arrestee Name – MONTOYA-MANZANARES, ISMAEL, Sex -M, […]

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Richmond Father Gets Twelve Years for Role in Son’s Drug Overdose Death

Cal SkinnerApril 25, 2025April 25, 2025

From the State’s Attorney: ERIC ULLRICH SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION FOR INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER AND COMMUNICATING WITH A WITNES The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office announces that Eric Ullrich, 52, of Richmond, IL was sentenced to 12 […]

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Got an Old House with Lead Paint?

Cal SkinnerApril 25, 2025April 25, 2025

From the Health Department: McHenry County is Accepting Lead Safe Homes Applications WOODSTOCK, Ill. – McHenry County residents with lead paint in their homes still have time to enroll in the Lead Safe Homes Program to remove it. In order to be […]

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Pritzker Wants Puppet to Replace Durbin in U.S. Senate

Cal SkinnerApril 25, 2025April 25, 2025

The Black female first-term State Representative JB Pritzker picked from obscurity to run as his candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2017, Juliana Stratton, is his now candidate to replace U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. Durbin was Pritzker’s only serious rival in Illinois Democratic […]

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