Here are some articles that you may have missed this past weekend: State’s Attorney Candidates Set Dueling Events Thursday Write-Ins for Precinct Committeeman Regna Picks Up $6,125 Lincoln Day Dinner Scheduled for Feb 6th Schofield Reports $14,200 Government Budgets Can’t … Continue reading
11-13-15 Tax Protest Suit against McHenry County, Harrison School, CL Grade & High School, plus Alg & McH Townships 11-13-15 County Inmates Get Outside Road Work, Training 11-14-15 Tax Protest Suit against Wonder Lake’s Harrison Grade School 11-15-15 CL District … Continue reading
If you didn’t dip into McHenry County Blog this weekend, here are the articles you missed: D155 Plans to Store Dismantled Bleachers Behind Homes Rand Paul Campaign Seeks Delegate Candidates Rolling Thunder Recognize Sheriffs Bill Prim & Mark Curran “Are … Continue reading
Have you been ensnared in and prevented from posting by our malicious spam traps? Do you think that Cal Skinner is preventing you from the ability to comment on a story or has it in for you in some way? … Continue reading
Here at McHenry County Blog, we have been working hard to provide citizens with interesting and informative community and political news for almost ten years. However, being the area’s “go-to” political blog comes at a price, both in the amount … Continue reading
Throughout the debate on township consolidation, proponents have watched opponents dominate every meeting. Proponents have argued that all but one of the meetings were held during the day when only township officials and their friends could attend, that regular voters … Continue reading
Today Capitol Fax reveals that variations of its name,e.g., capitolfax.org, capitolfax.net lead to the web site of the Illinois Policy Institute. Since I didn’t reserve other variations of McHenryCountyBlog.com, I decided to check out a couple. I typed in McHenryCountyBlog.org … Continue reading
8-28-15 Franks’ Tax Hike Proposal 8-28-15 Walsh Endorses McConchie 8-28-15 Judicial Applicants 8-29-15 Reader Urges Tax Revolt 8-29-15 Lots of Comments on Township Government 8-29-15 Cemetery District Study 8-30-15 Prim Asks for Jail Rental Extension 8-30-15 McConchie Rally at Walsh … Continue reading
8-21-15 Rauner Signs Fed Funds Bill 8-21-15 Zielinski on FOIA 8-21-15 Missing CL Teen 8-21-15 Baptist Minister Arrested for Child Porn 8-21-15 Rauner Vetoes 8-22-15 Behind the Scenes in Springfield 8-22-15 Possible New Tax Rates Under Township Consolidation 8-22-15 Criminal … Continue reading
You can read about the Illinois Supreme Court case here. You can read about Lou Bianchi’s suit here. … Continue reading
McHenry County voters stayed home in droves on April 7th. Only 10.9% of those registered to vote did so. That’s about 22,496 people. In a two-way race, that means just over 5% of the voters could decide who rules. In … Continue reading
As of 5:45 a.m. CST on Tuesday, February 24 we have moved the site to its new and more capacious quarters. There are bound to be a few growing pains, so if you notice anything out of the ordinary, please … Continue reading
As readers may have noticed at one point or another, McHenry County Blog has had its share of technical problems, often going down several times a week over the past several months. This has been due in part to the … Continue reading
Lakewood joined the parade of municipalities that want Tax Increment Financing Districts. Since McHenry County Blog was created in reaction to Crystal Lake’s proposal to create the Vulcan Lakes TIF District and since I’m a resident of Lakewood, I felt … Continue reading
There’s been problems with accessibility with McHenry County Blog today. When I reported it to Site5, I got the following reply: The teck “found that IP ‘50.151.207.106’ had made over 15000 hits today (one third of today’s amount). Is that … Continue reading
The Illinois Attorney General notified McHenry County late yesterday afternoon that it is investigating whether the County Board’s Transportation Committee operated within the limitations of the Open Meetings Act at its September 3rd meeting on Randall Road. The question was … Continue reading
Before I go on about the issues that have affected this site for a while now, I wanted to take a moment to (sort of) introduce myself. My name is Richard, and I’m the webmaster, cook and bottle washer for … Continue reading
McHenry County Blog must be doing something that disturbs somebody. It was under cyber attack yesterday, resulting in the need to install a more robust and expensive firewall. Sorry for the inconvenience some readers had. … Continue reading
We started the weekend with an article about Woodstock’s rejection, then later passage of a Prevailing Wage Ordinance. Lots of comments. Woodstock Rejects Prevailing Wage Ordinance, Approves It the Next Meeting Then, State Rep. Jack Frnaks invited people to ice … Continue reading
A friend of McHenry County Blog was on jury duty recently and tried to read it while waiting. You can read the message that popped up below: “Access to mchenrycountyblog.com is not permitted by McHenry Countys (sic) security policy,” the … Continue reading
