From Wirepoints:
From the Lake in the Hills Police: How sad.
From the Lake in the Hills Police:
McHenry County publishes salary and fringe benefit estimates for those over 1200 employees. Aberle, John ETSB Network Systems Manager $92,827.54Acevedo, Amber Laundry Worker $12,359.88Acevedo, Daniel Corrections LT $138,980.14Adams, Angelica Registry – RN $21,840.00Adamson, Melissa Public Health Administrator $191,795.61Adkins, Deanna Clerk I $48,632.66Aguilar, […]
From Lee County, Florida, comes this headline about restaurant inspections: There is no easy way to extract information referenced in the Florida headline. One has to search the Food Establishment Inspection Reports at the bottom of this page.
From the Illinois Department of Public Health: New Laws, Rules Impacting Public Health to Take Effect in 2025 Strengthened rules on childhood lead testing, requirements for long-term care facilities among changes in the New Year SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health […]
From the Algonquin Police comes information of retail theft arrests at Kohl’s: In addition, similar arrests were made at Jewel with the arrest being made during a traffic stop:
A Chicago area band marched in the Rose Bowl Parade. It was from Lincoln Way High School.
Dorr Township has provided the compensation for its elected officials for the upcoming term. They follow: Additional compensation for the Supervisor, Assessor and Highway Commissioner;
Every fifteen years Hanukkah coincides with Christmas. This is such a year. For eight days candles are lit. Tonight is the eighth day.
From the Health Department: McHenry County Department of Health launching rapid point-of-care testing MCHENRY COUNTY, IL – Beginning January 6, 2025, through the end of respiratory season (typically late March or early April), the McHenry County Department of Health (MCDH) will offer free […]
From Wirepointts:
Caught some photos from the Rose Bowl Parade today. The musicians blasted out “Twist and Shout.” Performers danced on the street. The float contained representations of Wrigley Field’s sign, the Sears Tower, the City Hall Picasso The reason for the entry was […]
From the Illinois Institute’s cartoonist Eric Allie: Only missing is Governor Pritzker fanning his pension crisis..
That was the take by a reader when he read of the closure of the marijuana dispensary on Route 31 in Crystal Lake. From a Northwest Herald email:
From The Center Square: Violent Venezuelan gang members expanding operations in Midwest Tren de Aragua members arrested in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin (The Center Square) – Members of the violent Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua (TdA), continue to expand criminal operations […]
Legislators like to make people think they are providing new benefits under health insurance. What they don’t want people to now or, perhaps, don’t know themselves, is that most people are not covered under state-regulated health insurance plans. Most medical pans are […]
Time to start thinking about preparing to file income taxes. From Unleash Prosperity Hotline – Weekend Edition – Issue #1164 comes this encouragement for those of us whose property tac bills have topped $10,000: Note that the sub-headline leaves out the State of […]
From the Lake in the Hills Police:
You can read the logic on Liberty Unyielding in an article by its staff. They point out that Republicans received of the national vote for members of the House of Representatives. Republicans got four million more popular votes than Democrats in House races, so […]
President Ronald Reagan was scheduled to speak to a Joint Session, but he was shot the day before.
From Brewster Rockit: Space Guy:
Orders of Protection can be obtained easliy. One person can go into court, allege fear of another and obtain one. The person whose activities are to be restrained gets no day in court. Not even close to what one learns about the […]
After I graduated from Crystal Lake Community High School in 1960, I worked the counter at McDonald’s for the summer. The calculator as too slow, so I added up the prices in my head. And, there was only one hamburger picked off […]
From Wirepoints:
From the McHenry Township Fire Protection District: Armistead Lane Fire On Monday, December 30th, at approximately 1:20 p.m., the McHenry Township Fire Protection District (MTFPD) was dispatched to a reported structure fire in the 1000 block of Armistead Lane in McHenry. MTFPD […]
From the Coroner: McHenry County Coroner, Dr. Michael Rein, announced that his office was contacted on December 27, 2024, by the McHenry County Sheriff’s to investigate the death of Joseph M. Depner, age 49 of Wonder Lake, IL. Mr. Depner was involved […]
FromJB Pritzker; Illinois Minimum Wage Increasing on January 1 Most hourly workers will see an increase of $1 an hour on their paystubs SPRINGFIELD – The minimum wage in Illinois is increasing on January 1st, 2025. Workers will see an increase of $1 […]
From the Sheriff: Man dies in two-vehicle crash near Wonder Lake A 49-year-old Wonder Lake man was pronounced dead, and a 65-year-old Naples Florida man was injured following a two-vehicle crash in the 7300 block of Barnard Mill Road in unincorporated Wonder […]
From the Sheriff: Man injured in crash near Harvard A 39-year-old Harvard man was injured following a single-vehicle crash in the 9500 block of US Route 14, in unincorporated Harvard. On Friday, December 27 at 5:56 p.m., members of the McHenry County […]