By Benjamin BarrOn April 4, Bull Valley will ask an important question of its residents – should Home Rule authority be enacted? While home rule means a lot of things, […]
Voters in the April 4 consolidated election will decide whether the village of Bull Valley becomes a Home Rule community.What is Home Rule? Illinois Home Rule is the constitutional grant of […]
Voters in Bull Valley will be asked in the April 4 election to approve home rule authority that would give the village more flexibility to raise money for a number […]
The City Council will hold a public hearing next month on a proposal to increase the sales tax in Woodstock. The hearing will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. […]
As Woodstock officials weigh whether to increase the city’s sales tax rate, local entrepreneurs are divided over how a hike would impact their businesses. A proposal to raise the sales […]
The city of Woodstock will have slightly lower budgeted expenditures and slightly higher revenues in the next fiscal year if the City Council approves the budget presented to them March […]
Woodstock shoppers might pay more in sales tax in exchange for a property tax cut. The Woodstock City Council voted unanimously March 7 to reduce the city’s property tax levy […]
The Woodstock City Council re-adopted and amended the city code Jan. 17 to include Woodstock’s new status as a home-rule municipality. The action had little practical effect on the city’s […]
It turns out Woodstock is a little larger than the U.S. Census Bureau initially thought. The final tally from a special census completed in September shows the city with a […]
Woodstock’s population is 25,357, according to the preliminary results of a special census, a figure that will give the city home-rule status. Numbers compiled by the United States Census Bureau […]
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