From the McHenry County Regional Office of Education: Regional Office of Education Seeking Sponsors for 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee WOODSTOCK, Ill. – The McHenry County Regional Office of Education is seeking generous, community-minded sponsors to help send the winner of the […]
From the Lake in the Hills Police:
From Nunda Township Supervisor candidate Mike Shorten comes this message: Hi, it’s Mike Shorten again! Join me tomorrow from 9 AM to 12 PM at the Nunda Township Office (3510 Bay Rd., Crystal Lake, downstairs entrance) to cast your vote—I’ll have coffee […]
From the University of Illinois comes this announcement: The University of Illinois Press (UIP) and the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) are pleased to continue the annual competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in the field of Women’s, Gender, […]
From The Center Square: Measure would allow for more prosecutions of unemployment benefits fraudsters (The Center Square) – An Illinois congressman is calling for the adoption of legislation that would allow for more time to pursue COVID-19 pandemic-era unemployment insurance fraudsters. The Pandemic […]
From incumbent Nunda Township Supervisor Leda Bobera-Drain: Another clarification for Mike Shorten Mike Shorten, let me clarify some things for you again. General Assistance is a statutory requirement under 60 ILCS 1/85 -13 paragraph A. The manual written by the State is […]
From the McHenry County Circuit Court Clerk:
From thr U.S. Attorney: Man Pleads Guilty to Illegally Importing Suicide Drug into the United States from Mexico CHICAGO — A man pleaded guilty today in Chicago to a federal drug charge for illegally importing the drug Pentobarbital into the United States from […]
Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy “My Way or the Highway” Funk was censured by the Algonquin Township Board nine times. I know of no other public official that has even come close to that disapproval by his or her governing board. Running in […]
From The Center Square: Fallout continues after Pritzker’s Nazi comments during budget speech By Greg Bishop | The Center Square (The Center Square) – The fallout over comments Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker made about Nazis during his budget address spilled onto the House […]
The Village of Fox River Grove is instituting a ban on wells in a fairly large area around the now-closed Grove Plating factory. That’s the bad news. The good news is that there are no identified wells used for potable water within […]
From the Champaign News-Gazette comes this pithy summary of what will happen now that Madigan has been convicted of assorted wrong-doing: “People who study these things say grief consists of five stages: “Illinoisans’ grief over the state’s fallen status follows a similar […]
From McHenry County Board member and former Nunda Township Trustee Mike Shorten: Mike Shorten, Candidate for Nunda Township Supervisor, Exposes Incumbent’s Alleged Violations of State Laws Crystal Lake, IL – Mike Shorten, Republican candidate for Nunda Township Supervisor, today disclosed alleged violations […]
Repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it. That’s not a direct quote from Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, but it’s close. “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe […]
Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy “My Way or the Highway” Funk was censured by the Algonquin Township Board nine times. I know of no other public official that has even come close to that disapproval by his or her governing board. Running in […]
From the McHenry County Circuit Court: MCHENRY COUNTY JUDGES VISITSCHOOLS IN HONOR OF LINCOLN’S BIRTHDAY 9 Local Judges Participate in Annual “Judges Go to School” Program with Illinois Judges Association WOODSTOCK, IL — In conjunction with the February celebration in honor of […]
Found among the proposals set forth by Governor JB Pritzker yesterday is one which will end up hurting state universities, already hurting for students: A Capitol Fax commenter called Donnie Elgin expresses my thoughts: =The Community College Baccalaureate Degree Program would enable […]
Found on the Chicago Tribune: = = = = = I brought the tax deferral idea to Illinois.
From the Lake in the Hills Police:
The filing of a suit in McHenry County questioning whether Dan McConchie has Republican credentials has apparent spooked GOP biggies. Notice of 2/21 Meeting for 26th Legislative District Committee 19 February, 2025 HONORABLE KEITH BRINREPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN FOR LAKE COUNTYFebruary 18, 2025 To:Hon. Jeff […]
Found on Facebook: Attention Algonquin Township residents: February 25, 2025 End the FUNKY BUSINESS LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES EXPOSE THE CORRUPTION Township Supervisor Randy “Funky Business” Funk is using your taxpayers dollars to attempt to smear the current Board of Trustees […]
From the State’s Attorney: Jose Zuniga-Olivas Sentenced to Eighteen Years for Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance The McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office announces that Jose Zuniga-Olivas, 55, of Rockford, Illinois, was sentenced to eighteen years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. […]
Governor JB Pritzker gave his budget address today under this backdrop from the bipartisan finance oversight commission: “Illinois will underperform the region and the U.S. in 2025, with gross state product, employment, and income increasing less than elsewhere.” The Chicago Tribune has […]
Found in Governor JB Pritzker’s speech today is a township government consolidation proposal. The graphic appears below: The would lower the petition signature requirement for a referendum to abolish a township from 10% to 5%. More interesting to me is the proposal […]
From the U.S. Attorney: Federal Indictment Charges Suburban Chicago Man With Trafficking Firearms and Drugs CHICAGO — A federal grand jury has indicted a suburban Chicago man for allegedly trafficking firearms and drugs. An indictment returned Thursday in U.S. District Court in Chicago […]
From the U.S. Attorney: SUBURBAN CHICAGO MAN SENTENCED TO MORE THAN FIVE YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR $1.5 MILLION COVID-RELIEF FRAUD Fraud CHICAGO — A federal judge has sentenced a suburban Chicago man to more than five years in prison for fraudulently obtaining […]
From those running against the Randy “My Way or the Highway” Funk slate: This appears on the back: This post card features For Clerk – Millie Medendorf For Trustee: Also endorsed on the sample ballot are
From the Sheriff’s Department: Sheriff’s Office Investigates Fatal Crash near Woodstock A 33-year-old Elgin man was pronounced dead, and five others were injured following a three-vehicle crash on US Route 14 west of Dean Street, in unincorporated Woodstock. On Sunday February 16, 2025, […]
Algonquin Township Supervisor Randy “My Way or the Highway” Funk was censured by the Algonquin Township Board nine times. I know of no other public official that has even come close to that disapproval by his or her governing board. Running in […]
I don’t subscribe to Crain’s Chicago Business, so all I can share is the headline that came in Crain’s email: Certainly a coincidence, which I believe has a causal connection.