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Grants to renovate Recreation Center, add outdoor fitness court to Nature’s Way Park

March 5, 2024

Staff Report news@the woodstockindependent.com Woodstock is getting even more millions in grants to upgrade facilities, this time $2.79 million to renovate the city’s 35-year-old Recreation Center plus $50,000 toward an outdoor fitness court in a new inclusive playground as part of an intergenerational complex in Emricson Park. The bigger grant will come from the Illinois […]

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$60 million in state grants includes $600,000 for Woodstock

March 1, 2023

By JERRY NOWICKICapitol News Illinoisjnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – Woodstock will get a maximum $600,000 grant as part of $60 million in state funding announced Wednesday to help local governments develop public parks and open spaces. That is one of five grants to government units in McHenry County announced by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Although the purpose of the […]

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Cannabis sales still face hurdles; solar farm developer asks extension of special use permit

September 27, 2022

Given the chance to make it easier to put a cannabis dispensary in Woodstock, the City Council decided not to do it. Despite a unanimous vote earlier of the Plan Commission to allow a dispensary to open with a city permit rather than a special use exception to the zoning ordinance – which requires the […]

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Opening planned for Woodstock Walk Nature Trail in Emricson Park

July 5, 2022

Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com The city of Woodstock has won a $22,950 grant to create an intergenerational environmental education nature trail in Emricson Park in partnership with The Land Conservancy of McHenry County. According to a news release, Woodstock is among 260 recipients nationwide from among 3,200 applications for a 2022 AARP Challenge Grant designed to […]

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