Will County cuts tax rate by more than 3.5% Brock A. Stein | 10/16/2015, 8:41 a.m. | Updated on 10/15/2015, 9:33 p.m.   Will County Board members approved a tax rate Thursday that reduces tax bills by more than 3.5 percent. While the...
Editors note: The Republican Party needs to accept the person the people want to represent them and stop going after Trump, and Carson. If Trump was not in the race Cruz would be the demon. We loose elections by...
Editorial Blind Leading the Blind David A. Lombardo   I'm not sure if The Penguin is still alive and maintaining my permanent record. The Penguin, a name we gave Sister Lucille because of her black-and-white Dominican habit, was certainly dedicated to entering every...
Ryan Zinke / House.gov Navy Seal commander to run for House speaker? 'Our phones are ringing off the hook' Published: 3 days ago (BREITBART) — Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), a former Commander at Navy SEAL Team Six before his election to Congress last...
John Niesman, 71, of Homer Glen. (Provided by family) Clifford WardChicago Tribune Homer Glen man reported missing on hiking trip near border of Michigan and Wisconsin is found alive A 71-year-old Homer Glen man who had been reported missing on a hiking trip...
  The May decision of the Illinois Supreme Court, which held that pensions for current government employees can’t be modified, has shifted the public’s focus away from the biggest driver of Illinois’ fiscal crisis. Illinoisans turned their attention away from the state’s ailing...
Posted on October 16, 2015 by Ben Crystal If you’re anything like me, then the members of the Democratic Party hate you. And I don’t mean they disagree with your politics. I don’t even mean they disagree vehemently with your...
Open the Books finds wasteful spending in the agency EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy / AP BY: Elizabeth Harrington October 12, 2015 5:00 am The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spent over $15 million on outside public relations consultants despite employing nearly 200 full-time...
By Matthew Besler   The Illinois Opportunity Project recently addressed growing dissension in the Illinois House, where several Democrats broke with their party to uphold Governor Rauner’s veto of a major union bill, indicating that House Speaker Mike Madigan was losing...

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