From the State’s Attorney: OAKWOOD HILLS MAN SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS FOR VICIOUS ATTEMPTED MURDER OF HIS WIFE McHenry County State’s Attorney Randi L. Freese announces that on November 3, 2026, Pablo Contreras, 51, of Oakwood Hills, Illinois, was sentenced to eighteen […]
Hard to believe, but both Democrats and the President have the same strategy, summed up by the headline below from Salem: McHenry County Blog has shown the evidence of what Illinois Democrats are doing: Here is the sign: Both sides are trying […]
The Daily Herald reports that even though anyone looking at the odds of Darren Bailey’s winning being about as close to nil as one could imagine even if one were voting on the merits of whether JB Pritzker has been a good […]
Just vote a big “D” are the Daily Herald’s recommendations for how one should cast his/her ballot. Who is the exception? State Rep. Marty McLaughlin. Last time he won by 47 votes. This year the Democrats have poured on the support for […]
An article in the Chicago Tribune about immigration detention centers has a man who has lived in Chicago since childhood bemoaning the conditions of a detention center in Miami, Indiana; Now 49, Omar recalled during a phone interview with the Tribune his […]
From the Village of Huntley comes the names of those who have taken out petition packets: Filing begins on November 16 and ends on November 23. Candidates do not have to pick up packets from City Hall. The documants are available on […]
Voters at the Nunda Townshipj Hall had to encountert these signs: There were some signs that not candidate signs. This one between a Laurie Parmen for State Representative and a Darren Bailey for Governor sign says. “McHenry County is not a Sancturary […]
Found in the Chicago tribune yesterday:
Here is what District 1 Country Board Republican Matt Kunkle is handing out in his campaign: Another campaign piece was mailed, presumably to Republican households: Strangely, there is no mention that Kunkle is a Republican.
When David McSweeney was running for State Representative against deceased Sttate Rep. Mark Beaubien’s wife, he was hammered for being against killing inutero babies up to the dy before birth. He did not ignore the attack, rather returning the attacks in-kind. No […]
A stand alone ad coming via email from the Northwest Herald and paid for by the McHenry County Democratic Central Committee can be seen below: The County Board did raise the salaries of elected officials. But the the “deficit” to which the […]
Most politicians have stopped advertising in newspapers. .The last time I did, the Northwest Herald put my fairly large ad on the obituary page. The only political advertising I’ve seen has been stickers on the front page. Now, undoubtedly in a move […]
State’s Attorney Randi Freese held a fundraiser in a massive barn last night. Regular readers know that I try to take photos of public officials in attendance. A woman asked me to take her picture and I told her my goal swas […]
Last Saturday, my Republican Precinct Committeeperson Tiffany Wendt placed a bag on my door knob. On top was the palm card for McHenry County Board candidate Dan Hickey. Second was the palm card for State Senate candidate Danielle Penman. A voter guild […]
The ticket from the Huntley Police:
Here is rhe yard sign, which also is appearing on electronic billboard: Good issue, if it were true. And I guess it’s a good issue even though it is demonstrably false. Yes, the budget presented by the bureaucrats had a $7 million […]
The Senator in question is Dave Syverson, the longest serving State Senator. Below is the text forwarded by a Friend of McHenry County Blog: Just as I am not a Facebook person, I rarely look at texts, so if you see one […]
I’m not a Facebook person. So I depend on others who spend their time on that website. A Friend of McHenry County Blog sent the following attack on Priztker, Ndeebla Syed and Maria Peterson:
From Repblican United States Senate candidate Don Tracy: Don Tracy: Stratton Not Only Attacking Republicans, She’s Attacking Traditional Democrats SPRINGFIELD — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Tracy today responded to Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s attack on Michigan Democrat Congresswoman Haley Stevens […]
It was costume day at the Friday afternoon McHenry food distribution of the First Church of Crystal Lake and The Capel in The Chapel’s McHenry location on Route 31. One woman, a very creative one, knitted (maybe crocheted) an outfit that looked […]
From the Illnois Policy Insrtitutes’s cartoonist Eric Allie:
From a Friend of McHenry County Blog, Darren Bailey vs. Aaron Del Mar Feud? Tension builds as their mutual ally Tom DeVore melts down Patrick Pfingsten of The Illinoize caught something on Darren Bailey’s campaign website that looked like drama between Darren […]
Polls closed to make it safe for elected officials from the Telegraph:
From the Internal Revenue Service: Tax Cuts Benefiting Working Americans Last year, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the Working Families Tax Cuts, landmark legislation that ushered in a new era of tax relief and prevented the largest tax increase in […]
Found riding bicycles on Lake Shore Drive in Lakewood last Saturday were girls and women dressed as witches. Some were playing Halloween-type music.
From the Chicago Tribune’s “Brewster Rokit: Space Guy” cartoon strip:
For better or worse, I’m always looking at campaign techniques legislators use. I’m particularly looking at approaches I see for the first time. This one is obviously not new to Pennsylvania since the innovator served for over three decades. But it was […]
From Crystal Lake Citizen Sally Munn: To the Editor Why is the Mayor running unopposed? Perhaps because the City has been incorrectly communicating that the date for candidates to submit paperwork closed 10/26/26. In fact, the actual filing period is Nov 16-23, […]
From Wonder Lake’s Bob Anderson comes this lletter to the Editor Why tiny townships don’t add up, should be dissolved. Eye on townships with fewer than 500 residents, Illinois has 362 such townships. One example would be Clark County with a population […]
Fair or, as the Friend of McHenry County Blog wrote, “This is what an absolute Pimp J.B. is. He has had signs printed like this to place in Cook County to drive Trump-hating sentiment toward Bailey. “I saw them yesterday all around […]