At the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Wednesday, the City of Crystal Lake received a $1.4 million grant to construct a second left-turn lane from Virginia Street Road to Virginia Street, otherwise known Route 14. That’s what McHenry County’s member … Continue reading
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A press release from the Crystal Lake Police Department: Subjects charged after investigation of stabbing incident On April 3, 2017, Crystal Lake Police responded to the 400 block of Virginia Street for a report of a stabbing involving several people. … Continue reading
It was last April when I noticed that the decorative street lights financed by the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing. Look at the ones you see in the photo below, taken on a good day in November, 2011. Then compare … Continue reading
Here’s the response to my request for information about the decorative Route 14 street lights paid for with money from people all over McHenry County through the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District: … Continue reading
A year and a half ago in November of 2011, Crystal Lake city officials gathered in McCormick Park to dedicate the improvements along Virginia Street financed by that street’s Tax Increment Financing District. Among the improvements were low and high … Continue reading
These $16,000 Crystal Lake City Council-approved Tax Increment Financing District boundary markers were made for advertising. Unfortunately, the west wind-blown snow has obliterated the message of whomever is advertising today. The advertiser should ask for his or her money back. … 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 wonder how much the first lawsuit’s going to be for.” That’s what one person said about the blocking of the sight line from the Pizza Hut parking lot. At least when the snow from last February’s blizzard blocked views … Continue reading
The new monuments marking the edges of the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District cost $16,000 each. There are lots of questions, one set of which begins with “Why?” Let me give you a sample: “Why were they thought necessary … Continue reading
The first one I saw was near Pizza Hut. What was it? It looked like it belonged in a cemetery. Friday, I learned city officials actually call them “monuments.” On the monuments is the Crystal Lake City emblem or symbol: … 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
There’s still some 30th Anniversary cake at Andy’s Family Restaurant as I write this story at about 10 AM. My Emmaus Reunion Group meets there Saturday morning’s at 7:30 and Angie Angelos, the founder’s daughter who runs the place, had … Continue reading
The following information has been received from the Crystal Lake Police Department. Crystal Lake Traffic Crash January 30th, 2010 On Sunday, January 30th, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Crystal Lake Police and Crystal Lake Fire Departments responded to the intersection of … Continue reading
The introduction to Stimulus Watch, a new web site listing all sorts of “shovel-ready” projects across the country. It “was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to … Continue reading
The introduction to Stimulus Watch, a new web site listing all sorts of “shovel-ready” projects across the country. It “was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to … Continue reading