By: Diane Benjamin This item is on the Omnibus Agenda. In case you forgot, those items are routine and don’t need to be discussed unless a Trustee pulls one. Since Stan Nord was elected the Council does pull items, mostly not to object, but more to praise staff for the great job putting it together. […]
The subject of this story is also the President of the McLean County Mayors Association. I hope he isn’t providing any advice to the other mayors. By: Diane Benjamin Corruption in small towns rivals any found in large cities. Dixon only had 15,000+ people and got taken for $50 Million by a trusted “public servant”. […]
By: Diane Benjamin A reader found this in the Illinois Municipal Code: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=006500050HArt.+11+Div.+67&ActID=802&ChapterID=14&SeqStart=200000000&SeqEnd=201100000 (65 ILCS 5/11-67-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-1) Sec. 11-67-1. Subject to a referendum vote, any municipality having a population of 75,000 or less, may acquire, construct, manage, control, maintain, and operate within its corporate limits a municipal coliseum with all necessary […]
