Tours offered this week at Old Courthouse Center Final public tours of remodeling at the Old Courthouse Center will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 13. The Friends of the […]
“The highest property tax rate increase over the two-year period among the collar counties is the city of Woodstock, which increased by 8.3 percent to 3.51 percent, up from 3.24 […]
If preliminary numbers hold, the city of Woodstock’s portion of your tax bill next year will increase by 4.15 percent. That means a $150,000 home will pay $33.31 more than […]
Again this year, no one showed up for a public hearing on the largest local government budget in Woodstock and the biggest spender of property tax revenue. The 2022-23 budget […]
How did Woodstock get so lucky, people might think. We get $57 million from the Build Illinois fund for the widening and improvement (upgraded lighting and landscaping) of more than […]
By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Monday that Illinois taxpayers would soon start receiving rebates of their income and property taxes, either in […]
Tour construction zone inside Old Courthouse Plan to get a little dirty at the Dusty Boots Tour at the Old Courthouse, 101 N. Johnson St., from 11 a.m. to 1 […]
“How long can we continue to do this?” Mayor Brian Sager asked rhetorically during a budget workshop of the Woodstock City Council. He was talking about the council’s decade-long practice […]
Recent proposals for solving the $160 million bond debt of Woodstock School District 200 avoid property tax increases, which was the wish of more than 79 percent of respondents to […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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