The Geneva City Council approved creating a fourth tax increment financing district that includes the area of a 211.43-acre annexation petition from Midwest Industrial Funds.
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A petition from Midwest Industrial Funds to annex 225 acres between Route 38 and Kautz Road, south of Fabyan Parkway, will be the subject of a public hearing at 7 p.m. Thursday at Geneva City Hall bef.
Activists trying to save a stand of 300-year-old bur oak trees near Geneva say crews began cutting them down Tuesday, in what they allege is a violation of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit.
A local effort to oppose the removal of roughly 75 burr oak trees in a proposed warehouse development near Geneva now includes a website and an online petition with more than 1,000 signatures.