Legislative Branch Yields to Judicial Branch on Crystal Lake Bleachers

A side view of the new South High School football bleachers.

A side view of the new South High School football bleachers.

There was a move to settle the Crystal Lake South High School bleacher dispute in Springfield.

But the session ended with no action on the bill that State Senator Pam Althoff introduced.

The reason was that the State Board of Education, Illinois Association of School Boards and the Illinois Municipal League decided to wait for the outcome of the lawsuit.

Althoff concurred with this approach.

All interested parties, however, realize that state law is not clear and needs improvement.


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Legislative Branch Yields to Judicial Branch on Crystal Lake Bleachers — 8 Comments

  1. State law is very clear and the Appellate court will slam 155!

    Then it will be back to the trial court for months of negotiations that should have been done months ago OR before the whole project commenced.

  2. The school district should pay each home owner at least $250,000 for lost value on their homes and for setting up a viewing stand into the homeowners windows.

  3. Absolutely!

    The Schools believe that students should face consequences for bad behavior.

    Let’s see if they are willing to accept responsibility for what they have done…

  4. Duncan, calm down.

    Those houses aren’t worth $250K

    Only the lawyers will get rich because of two greedy neighbors.

  5. To Charles Nelson,

    Just exactly how are the “two neighbors being greedy”?

  6. This is a loose loose situation as taxpayers we are paying for the city lawyers and the district lawyers.

    I don’t really think anyone wants their property taxes to go up and as for paying those homeowners where would the money come from, oh wait that’s our taxes.

    So no one wins!

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