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City Council emergency session Sunday to consider new video gambling tax

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Woodstock is joining other McHenry County towns in a rush to beat a midnight Sunday deadline to enact a “penny per push” tax on video gambling machines. The City Council is scheduled to meet in a special emergency session at 4 p.m. Sunday in City Hall to consider legislation passed Thursday on the final day […]

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Larry Lough

Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
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Picture of Larry Lough

Larry Lough

Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.
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