McHenry County Coroner Anne Majewski reports that a witness saw Grant Jacobson walking into the train coming from Woodstock. Her press release follows: … Continue reading
Category Archives: Metra Station
First a car hit a Metra train near Chicago and a passenger was killed. Now word is that a train hit a passenger at Crystal Lake’s Downtown Station. A Flight for Life was reported called, but cancelled. Crystal Lake Police … Continue reading
A Friend of McHenry County Blog sent the photo you see below: The message accompanying the picture follows: “This guy was walking on the opposite platform with a huge sign that said, ‘Trump loves the Cubs.’ smiling away… “He turned … Continue reading
The parcel of land on County Club Road north of Ridgefield that was once scheduled to become a Metra station is now up for auction, a sign on the property says. The last time I checked it was owned by … Continue reading
A press release from McHenry County Coroner Anne Majewski: The site of the event was just east of the Pingree Road Metra station. … Continue reading
The rush hour is over, so the Fox River Grove Warming Station, just in time for summer, should be dedicated by now, according to the press release that follows: METRA Warming Shelter to Open Wednesday, June 5th On Wednesday, June … Continue reading
The following arrived from the Village of Fox River Grove: Village Officials Review Spring Construction Projects Fox River Grove, IL. Village Officials recently reviewed a report summarizing active construction projects in the Village. The report summarized activities for the following … Continue reading
A really early commuter send me this email about campaign activity at the Crystal Lake Metra Station this Monday morning: “Mary McClellan, District 3 County Board, was at Crystal Lake Metra station before 5:00 a.m. handing out campaign literature. “Usually … Continue reading
A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office: OWNER OF DEFUNCT AZTECA SUPPLY CO. AND HER HUSBAND SENTENCED TO FEDERAL PRISON IN CONNECTION WITH MINORITY CONTRACT FRAUD CHICAGO — The owner of a defunct Chicago company once certified as a … Continue reading
Phil Pagano is gone as Executive Director of Metra and, under his replacement Alex Clifford, the agency has decided to drop the Ridgefield train station option. “We are allowing the option on the land to lapse,” said Metra Board member … Continue reading
Jim Roden, owner of the Framery in Ridgefield has sent the following letter to Metra Chairwoman Carole Dovis. A copy was sent to the railroad commuter agency’s Inspector General Hillard Heintze. Metra Board Chairman, Carole R. Doris 547 W. Jackson … Continue reading
When I was picking up my son from Bernotas Junior High this afternoon a little after 2, I had to wait a long time to get through Woodstock Street. Tree trimmers were out in force on Oak Street holding up … Continue reading
Yesterday I drove a friend to Belvidere for medical treatment. I had about an hour to wait, so I went exploring in the city I represented in the Illinois House of Representatives for eight years in the 1970’s. Since I … Continue reading
Previously McHenry County Blog has looked at the questions on the Healthy Communities 8,000 household survey concerning Parks & Recreation and Citizen Desires for More Services Today we look at the transportation questions: TRANSPORTATION 37-39. If you were to choose … Continue reading
By train even. Here’s his itinerary for the day, provided by Green Party candidate for McHenry County Sheriff Gus Philpott: May 21ST 8:16 am Rich Whitney takes the Metra west from Arlington Heights (8:16am). 9:01 am Rich arrives by Metra in … Continue reading
Unless former Metra Executive Director Phil Pagano drove east on Hillside Road before committing suicide on the East Hillside Road tracks, he wouldn’t have seen the signs in opposition to one of his last significant decisions. After giving Craig Steagall … Continue reading
That’s what Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting online. Phil Pagano lives in Covered Bridge Trails, which is located north of Hillside Road in rural Crystal Lake. At a salary of $269,625, I can’t imagine any public official/servant living in McHenry … Continue reading
The Crystal Lake Planning and Zoning Commission gave preliminary approval to Metra’s proposed Ridgefield Train Station, but conditioned it on making multi-million dollar road improvements recommended by city engineering firm Patrick Engineering. The improvements, most overdue, according to Patrick engineers … Continue reading
Yesterday, I commented on the Northwest Herald’s recommendation that the McHenry County Board move forward on enacting some form of the Alliance for Land, Agriculture and Water’s proposed conflict of interest ordinance. I disagreed with the NW Herald editorial writers’ … Continue reading
There were only seven McHenry County Board candidates who did not complete the ethics questionnaire proposed by the Alliance for Land, Agriculture and Water. Leading up the list is District 2’s representative and McHenry County Board Chairman Ken Koehler, who … Continue reading