Income and spending will jump about 25 percent in the 2020-21 Woodstock city budget – both inflated by the $9 million in major street improvements being made this year.The City […]
Twenty-six Woodstock businesses have received a maximum $5,000 check from the city’s small-business loan program, and 74 loans are still available to help local merchants deal with fallout from the […]
175 ‘segments,’ 19.43 lane miles targeted in city’s 2020 program
City Council continues to expand aid program for businesses
Loan program, fee waivers aim to cushion effects of virus
Woodstock’s package to ease the financial effects of the coronavirus will not include a delay in the city’s new motor fuel tax of 3 cents a gallon, which goes into […]
Woodstock announces further restrictions on facilities.
Local small businesses in Woodstock would benefit from a $500,000 emergency loan program the City Council will consider in a special meeting Wednesday afternoon. The council ‘s emergency session at […]
Establishing a small-business loan program and suspending the city’s new single-use bag fee are on the agenda for an emergency meeting of the Woodstock City Council at 2 p.m. Wednesday. […]
In response to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s announcement Friday ordering all Illinois residents to “stay at home,” and the closure of all “non-essential” businesses, Woodstock officials announced further restrictions on city […]
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