With the contract problems between owners and players, the NBA might be looking for institutional advertising. What better place that the four $16,000 Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District boundary markers? = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck … Continue reading
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What a perfect ad to place on Crystal Lake’s $16,000 credit-financed TIF monuments: one for MasterCard. = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck of a Guy blogster Allan Showalter. … Continue reading
Coca-Cola has deep pockets. Maybe the company would help pay the $16,000 that the TIF District monuments each cost on Crystal Lake’s Virginia Street. = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck of a Guy blogster Allan Showalter. … Continue reading
Of course, if it were a contested Crystal Lake City Council election, the Council members up for re-election might not want to remind people to cast ballots, if they voted for the monument Tax Increment Financing District expenditures. And, it … Continue reading
Public service announcements don’t bring in any revenue to help pay for the four $16,000 monuments, but they would establish that ads could be purchased. = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck of a Guy blogster Allan Showalter. … Continue reading
If men arrange to ask their fiancés to marry them on billboards and electronic signs in baseball parks, why not with an ad on Route 14’s TIF District monuments? And, it could help pay for the four $16,000 stone pillars. … Continue reading
There’s a lot of profit in gambling, so maybe the Illinois Lottery might be interested in advertising on one of the four Crystal Lake Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District monuments. Who knows? The Lottery might rent all eight sides. … Continue reading
Crystal Lake used to get a lot of money from sales taxes? To keep the dollars flowing, the Crystal Lake City Council voted to hike the city’s rate by 75%. Advertising shopping opportunities in the city might help repay the … Continue reading
If the Crystal Lake wants to pay off the $64,000 that the four Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District stone pillars cost, maybe car manufacturers would be a place to try to sell ads. = = = = = Photoshopping … Continue reading
Yesterday, I suggested that maybe the Crystal Lake City Council could recoup some of the $64,000 it spent of our money on four stone monuments telling people they were on Virginia Street. I say “our” money because the $16,000 apiece … Continue reading
Besides increasing parking fees and fining people $100 for speeding past a camera, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has come up with an idea that might work in Crystal Lake. He suggests selling space on public places, such as bridge monuments. … Continue reading
I listen to NPR, but only when I get out of range of Chicago’s WBEZ do I switch to the NIU station in DeKalb. I have to be pretty close to Rockford not to be able to hear WBEZ. … Continue reading
“Broader brand awareness of MCC” is the goal of $29,400 of advertising on Crystal Lake’s FM radio station. President Vicky Smith’s memo says it’s part of “My MCC’s” branding campaign. Fits right into the “influenc[ing] the public perception of the … Continue reading
Hobby Lobby is an unabashed Christian store. Christian songs are played on the craft store’s PA system. On Easter it publishes full-page Christian ads. You see this year’s above. The message was HE DIED WE LIVE Click on the image … Continue reading
Imagine my surprise when I opened up Sunday’s Northwest Herald and found a political ad on page 3. It was from the folks opposing the construction of the McHenry County SportsPlex in their neighborhood west of the southern intersection of … Continue reading
Saturday night McHenry County Blog gave reads an advance look at the $5,000 “Boss Hog” ad to be run in Monday’s Northwest Herald. This version is easier to read, but below you see what I saw when I put it … Continue reading
Those endorsing Kurtz are Pam Althoff the Daily Herald Alliance for Lake, Agriculture and Water Pam Althoff Mike Tryon Marc Munaretto Scott Breeden Jeff Thorsen Brett Hopkins Carlyn Schofield Ray Bogdanowski Steven J. Harflinger John Heisler Jan Polep Pat Floeter … Continue reading
McHenry County Clerk Katherine Schultz doesn’t go out of her way to publicize her service to citizens, but the Northwest Herald what looks very much like a half page ad encouraging encouraging citizens to vote. Democratic Party opponent Mark Freund … Continue reading
The following two-page is scheduled to appear in the Northwest Herald Monday. If the image on your screen is not large enough, click on it and it will get bigger. The ad is obviously intended to assist someone other than … Continue reading
That’s where the 14th congressional district is, of course. The ad is an attack on Foster actions which Randy Hultgren says has hurt the job creation in Illinois. Here’s aspirant Randy Hultgren’s press release: Hultgren Campaign Releases New TV Ad: … Continue reading