From the State’s Attorney: AZMI S. IBRAHIM SENTENCED TO 13 YEARS IN THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FOR THE OFFENSE OF ARMED ROBBERY The McHenry County States Attorney’s office announces that on December 5, 2024, Azmi S. Ibrahim, 21, of Waukegan, was […]
From Mark Glennon of Wirepoints: Awful and worse: Illinois jobs and employment numbers badly lag the nation A nonpartisan Illinois commission last week reported some dismal numbers on the state’s lagging job growth. Bad as they were, it’s worse if you look […]
From the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District: Patient Airlifted with Critical Chest Wound On December 9, 2024, at 11:17 a.m., the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District responded to a 911 call reporting a man with unknown injuries at the Shell gas station at 110 N. Eastwood Drive […]
If you want to know, listen to the Tuesday night meeting because this is on the agenda: Here is the memo from Police chief Mike Roth: On 08/24/21 the Village Board approved a lease agreement with Enterprise to lease (3) Dodge Durango […]
From the U.S. Attorney: CRIMINAL CHARGES UNSEALED IN CHICAGO AGAINST TWO FORMER HIGH-RANKING SYRIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FOR WAR CRIMES AGAINST AMERICANS AND OTHER CIVILIANS CHICAGO — An indictment was unsealed today in Chicago charging two high-ranking Syrian officials under former President Bashar al-Assad with […]
From Legal Insurrection, republished with permission: U. Illinois-Chicago Dept. of Art History: Too Many White Scholars is “Ethically Problematic” The two main goals of the university, teaching and research, are improved first and foremost by cultivating diversity of thought. Doing so would […]
The Riley Elementary School District was not required to publish a Black Box ad, but did so anyway. The Board decided to publish the ad, even though it did not need to, to be completely transparent. Superintendent Jason Grey said cutting the […]
From the State’s Attorney: KENNETH PRICE GUILTY OF ARMED HABITUAL CRIMINAL, POSSESSION OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WITH INTENT TO DELIVER, POSSESSION OF CANNABIS WITH INTENT TO DELIVER AND ENDANGERING THE HEALTH OR LIFE OF CHILD Randi L. Freese, McHenry County State’s Attorney, […]
Black Box ad from the Union Fire Protection District;
From the minutes of the McHenry County Board’s Committee of the Whole meeting from mid-November: Mr. [Joe] Gottemoller provided a comprehensive analysis of the county’s fiscal management over the past decade. He highlighted that the county’s property tax levy has decreased from […]
From the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission: In re Zangara, Frank John, 2024 PR00028 Disposition Suspension for a specified period. Suspension stayed in part. Effective Date of Disposition 12/10/2024 End Date of Disposition 04/10/2025 Scheduled termination date. Note that termination date […]
The McHenry County Board heard the annual report from Metra at its November meeting from John Morris, Metra Chief Financial Officer. Below are the minutes: Mr. Morris presented the agency’s 2025 operating and capital budgets to the McHenry County Board. For the […]
From the Illinois Republican Party comes this email: It’s happening again It’s happening again. Springfield Democrats are gearing up to push another tax hike onto hardworking Illinois families. They want to take more of your money to fund their reckless, radical agenda. […]
From Illinois Institute cartoonist Eric Allie:
Black Box ad for Wonder Lake’s Harrison Grade School District 35: Let this be a lesson for anyone who says, “Growth pays its own way.:
Black Box ad for the Marengo Park District:
One of the villains is the Dick Tracy cartoon strip created by Bull Valley’s Chester Gould was Pruneface. He appeared in black and white Saturday: Today’s Tribune cartoon reminded reprised the character in a costume party of the “Rogues Gallery:” And that […]
Prices are going up when Don Trump takes office, the mainstream media warns. The pounding of that message is relentless. There was even a major threatening piece the day after Mexico and Canada capitulated to Trump’s threat to raise tariffs 25% if […]
Here is what Regional Transportation Executive Director Leanne Redden told the County Board at its November meeting: Leanne Redden, Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) Executive Director, joined for the presentation. The RTA was presenting its 2025 budget to the McHenry County Board’s Committee […]
From Crain’s comes this information:
Nominated at a Tuesday caucus of the McHenry Township Republican Party are the following: No candidate was nominated to oppose Democrat Mary Mahady. All are incumbents but Rode, who was selected to replace Clerk Danielle Aylward.
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From the minutes of the November McHenry County Board Committee of the Whole meeting comes this information from Erin Smith, who serves on the Pace Board despite the fact he has not be Lakewood’s Village President for almost two terms: Erin Smith, […]
Filing for the February Grafton Township Republican Party Primary Election are the following: All are currently in office and seeking re-election, except Watson, who was appointed to fill a vacancy.
From McHenry County: McHenry County Wins GFOA Financial Reporting Award WOODSTOCK, Ill. – McHenry County has again earned national recognition for its excellence in financial reporting. The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada has bestowed a Certificate of […]
WLS-TV discovered that the University of Illinois Chicago Analytical Forensic Testing Laboratory may have provided bad test results used to convict people of driving-under the influence of marijuana. The defense attorney challenging the conviction of his client says that thousands of cases […]
The nearest nursing home son Newsweek Magazine’s best nursing home list are in Elgin, Lake Zurich and Rockford.
My first township meeting was while I as in college My father took me to one in the Algonquin Township garage where the paving of roads in the Silver Lakes Subdivision was being discussed. Developers often did not construct roads that were […]
From the Lake in the Hills Polilce: