
Cannabis causes code change
City Council to weigh rules for growing, infusing, selling


By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on today signed the three final bills of the 599 sent to him by the Illinois General […]

Misunderstanding. Lack of communication. Those were words used to describe the recent conflict over funding for co-curricular programs in Woodstock School District 200. The issue arose last month during the […]

For months the guys at Holzlager Brewing Co. have been teasing potential customers with an opening date. “We’re getting close,” President Mario Cortez said last week as he and brewmaster […]


A mosquito batch collected last week from a mosquito trap in Harvard tested positive for West Nile virus, the McHenry County Department of Health reported today. According to a news […]

By Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rallied Illinois Democrats on Wednesday, Aug. 14, issuing a call for party unity and citing the state party’s recent […]


In February, the City Council eliminated “aggressive panhandling” as a violation of city ordinance, renaming that section of the code “Peddlers and Solicitation.” Last week, the council repealed the ordinance […]

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