Passing legislation has often been compared to making sausage: No matter what the end product looks like, you probably don’t want to know everything that’s in it. That’s pretty much the perfect description of the “penny per push” bill that emerged from the Illinois General Assembly on the final day of the fall veto session […]
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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