McHenry County High Schools Making Top 100 Illinois List

From Chicago Now Staff Blog: Niche’s 2018 Best Public High Schools rankings are “based on rigorous analysis of key statistics and millions of reviews from students and parents using data from the U.S. Department of Education.” … Continue reading

Local Hospitals Score 3’s and 4’s Out of 5

Medicare has put out patient reviews of hospitals. There’s a five star rating system and local hospitals got 3’s and 4’s. Friday the Chicago Tribune had a huge article about the new program, including a list in descending order of … Continue reading

CL Restaurant Sanitation Ratings – The Pizza Place – X-Treme Wheels

Restaurant customers may be on the verge of being able to figure out how clean their favorite establishment is. The Public Health Committee of the McHenry County Board discussed making the Health Department’s quarterly inspections much more friendly to those … Continue reading

CL Restaurant Sanitation Ratings – Portarelli’s – The Morning Grind

At its last meeting the McHenry County Board’s Public Health Committee looked favorably on more transparency concerning sanitation reports of area restaurants. The Committee split four to two with Chairwoman Donna Kurtz, John Hammerand and Paula Yensen coming down on … Continue reading

Rating CL Restaurants on Cleanliness – Kumi Sishi – Pizza Hut

This is page three of the spreadsheet of sanitation rankings of Crystal Lake restaurants. The most recent inspection and the one before it have been listed by the McHenry County Department of Public Health. Making the results of these inspection … Continue reading

Crystal Lake Restaurant Sanitation Ratings – CL Country Club – Krystal Thai

Yesterday I wrote of the McHenry County Board’s Public Health Committee having given a thumbs up to posting sanitation reports for restaurants. Donna Kurtz, John Hammerand and Paula Yensen were in favor. Mary McCann and Anna May Miller were opposed. … Continue reading

Telling Customers Cleanliness of Restaurants, CL Ratings 1776 – Crystal Brewing

Led by McHenry County Board members Donna Kurtz, John Hammerand and Paula Yensen, the Public Health Committee supported having restaurant inspections made more public than they are now. Opposing the proposal were Mary McCann and Anna May Miller. You may … Continue reading

Local Hospitals’ Five Star Ratings

Chicago Crain’s Business has hospital ratings by HealthGrades. There are a number of categories which were judged. In descending order from a score of 22 Five Star ratings for Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, the list descends to … Continue reading

Cary-Grove, Prairie Ridge and Marengo High Schools Make Top 50 Chicago Area Schools

The Chicago Sun-Times ranked grade schools, middle schools and high schools using average scores on state achievement tests. The paper’s analysis ranked the percentage of students who met statewide standards. I scanned the results and found no grade or middle … Continue reading