As Lake County continues to dole out funding from its dwindling ARPA money pool, there has been quiet disagreement among County Board members about whether or not to fund a mental health building for first responders
Lake County officials are touting the elimination of an estimated one million pieces of single-use plastic that is being prevented from entering landfills as a result of the Lake County Board's decision to ban single-use plastics from county operations in cases where there are alternatives.
The Special Committee on COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery and Investment, a subcommittee that reports to the Lake County Board’s Financial and Administrative Committee, met Friday for a presentation and discussion of more than 79 project proposals.
Former state senator Melinda Bush has won an appointment to the Metra Board of Directors, and a $15,000 stipend to supplement her semi-retirement from political life, over the objections of Lake County Republicans who cried political patronage. Bush founded the Lake County Democratic Women, and at least eight Democrats on the Lake County Board took thousands in donations from the PAC.
(The Center Square) – With the most recent lawmaker charged with bribery pleading not guilty, statehouse Republicans are critical of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s pre-election push to purge embattled Democrats. After being indic.