As Carpentersville grows, the village’s tax rate declines. That was the message from village officials, who announced in a news release last week the details…
You might not have noticed, but the 2017 Kane County draft budget is published online right now, and available for your perusal. “Where do I…
As of the end of February, the state of Illinois is delinquent in more than $685,000 in payments that fund such Kane County programs as…
Kane County is set to freeze its property-tax levy for the fifth straight year. Before we go into some of the details on where and…
Metra this week proposed a $945.5 million budget that provides for $759.8 million in operating costs and $185.7 million to fund capital improvements in 2016….
Pace has proposed some changes this year, including the good news of about $1 million in service expansion as well as a proposal to modestly…
Part 2 of a Series. An old expression goes, “Victory has a thousand fathers … defeat is an orphan.” As I mentioned in last week’s…
In the best of all possible democracies, citizens would attend every local-government meeting or watch every meeting on cable TV or an Internet stream. Of…
State and local government agencies, politicians and media pundits have had much to say in the past 24 hours about Gov. Bruce Rauner’s Wednesday budget address, which…
Kane County’s Finance Committee unanimously recommended Wednesday that the full County Board decrease this year’s Sheriff’s Office budget by $225,000 to account for the revenue lost…
