Shaw Local has reported that Kane County State’s Attorney Jamie Mosser has thrown her hat in the ring for an appointment to a vacant judicial seat after the ...

Budgets adopted by public bodies are supposed to have a purpose and accountability for spending by each elected office. When a county adopts its budget, it is a contract ...

During the December 2025 meeting of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Vermilion County (video here), it was clear the board of commissioners were unfamiliar with ...

In a unanimous 17-page ruling handed down by the Fifth District Appellate Court today, the court Order stated: “The circuit court erred when it held that the ...

We recently requested input on a matter regarding when a person’s pay stops (article here).  That question has direct ties to our original article ...

Macon County Deputy Andrew Ziegler was taken into custody on December 15, 2025, at approximately 2:00 a.m. and charged with speeding more than 35 miles-per-hour over ...

For years, we have been hearing talk of how well off the county is, to the tune of over $20,000,000.00. Those same people, some now county board members, took great strides in bashing the County ...

The big picture: An upper level trough is coming onshore in the Pacific Northwest right now. When that crosses the Great Plains tomorrow night, surface low pressure will develop. That low will lift ...

Yesterday, the Village of Dolton, Illinois was ordered to pay our attorney fees in the amount of $41,029.45, our costs in the amount of $1,494.02, and a civil penalty in the amount of $5000.00. Total ...

This appears to be yet another one of those times when all you can say is you can’t make this crap up. The Chairman of the Police Committee of Arcola, Illinois, according to a letter from the Chief of ...

The long-awaited jury trial of Jerry Willison, former trustee of Oakland Fire Protection District and father of now convicted former OFPD trustee Kyley Willison, is postponed to an undetermined date.