A press release from those building a shooting range in Crystal Lake: On Target Breaks Ground in Crystal Lake Range & Tactical Training Center Targeted to Open in March of 2012 CRYSTAL LAKE, IL – Area business leaders, elected officials, … Continue reading
The expensive Tax Increment Financing District remake of Virginia Street from Kwik Kopy to the Pizza Hut is finished “on time and on budget,” Mayor Aaron Shepley told a group of contractors and local businessmen this morning on the northeast … Continue reading
Mass at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church began the day for those attending the first McHenry County Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Boulder Ridge Country Club was the next destination. Down Randall Road to Miller Road the cars drove. The place … Continue reading
In Friday’s Chicago Tribune column, John Kass wrote about Bill Cellini’s laugh. I sensed Kass believed that when Cellini laughed incriminated him. Read the piece and draw your own conclusion. And, if you want to hear Cellini’s laugh listen to … Continue reading
A response to the letter concerning Commonwealth Edison service that Crystal Lake resident Paul Greenlee sent to the city fathers and mothers: Mr. Greenlee: The purpose of this email is to confirm that the City has received your email and … Continue reading
What has happened in Crystal Lake is pretty incredible. The lines the Democrats have drawn will give Crystal Lake three state representatives and three state senators. Four state representatives, if you want to count the one Dorr Township precinct on … Continue reading
Standing in the Crystal Lake City Council Chambers, where he presides as Mayor at Tuesday night meetings, Aaron Shepley put on his other hat to represent Centegra, his day-time employer, in its opposition have competitor Mercy Health System be given … Continue reading
Former Lakewood Village President Julie Richardson is being defeated for election to the Trustee post to which she was appointed. With one precinct and early and absentee votes outstanding, challenger Jeff Iden is ahead by 91 votes. Richardson’s campaign seemed … Continue reading
Front page news on both of Chicago’s papers today was the Cook County Board’s vote to phase out its hefty sales tax under the now out-of-office Todd Stroger. The Crystal Lake City Council’s March, 2008, 75% city sales tax increase went … Continue reading
Way down at the bottom of tonight’s Crystal Lake City Council meeting agenda is a resolution supporting Mercy Hospital’s Certificate of Need application to state regulators. Take a look at the memo from City Manager Gary Meyerhofer for Agenda item … Continue reading
Marengo Democrat Jack Franks has gotten publicity for his third “Let’s get rid of the pensions” bill. First he went after the RTA, Metra, Pace and the CTA. No salaries, not pension, no health care benefits. No one seems to … Continue reading
Previously, McHenry County Blog has reported on the opening remarks of U.S. Senator Mark Kirk and Congressmen Don Manzullo and Joe Walsh. Next came Part 2 in which American Enterprise Resident Scholar Andrew Biggs told how other countries had dug … Continue reading
$4,559.58 is how much McHenry County Board Chairman had in the bank at the beginning of July. Koehler is up for election in a three-way race with Donna Kurtz, the woman who bested him and the second incumbent Lyn Orphal, … Continue reading
The petitions for re-election are being circulated for Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley and Council members Cathy Ferguson, Ellen Brady Mueller and Brett Hopkins. And, just in time for the campaign, there is an election kick-off party that required the … Continue reading
When I saw Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley at Friday’s grand opening of the Crystal Lake Republican Headquarters, I asked him if he were running for re-election, as are the three other members of the council whose terms of office … Continue reading
If you go searching on Google images for rolling eyes, you’ll find my photo of Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley’s reaction to a remark by Councilman Jeff Thorsen right up there among the picks. That immediately came to mind when … Continue reading
The biggest new construction in Crystal Lake in a couple of years broke ground yesterday. Designed to provide both residential and outpatient services, Camelot has broken ground in Crystal Lake for a 50,000 square foot building on Congress Parkway next … Continue reading
After an extensive debate with no public input because a public hearing had been previously held, three McHenry Aldermen and one Alderwoman voted to raise the city sales tax rate 50%. The rate will go from the current 1% to … Continue reading
When Governor Pat Quinn says that the state has a $12 billion deficit, what’s another $50 million? Apparently nothing. $50 million is what the August 6-15 sales tax holiday will cost coffers. Democrats don’t seem to care. Two local Democrats … Continue reading
This is income tax day and this sign, while not local, is appropriate because TEA Party demonstrations are going to be held in Crystal Lake on Route 14 at Main Street and on Route 62 in Algonquin. For the Route … Continue reading
