By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead One way or another, the majority of Americans will survive COVID-19. It remains to be seen, however, whether our freedoms will survive the tyranny of the government’s heavy-handed response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, now that the government has gotten a taste for
By Sarah Mansur The Illinois House passed a bill Thursday, March 18 that would make permanent some vote-by-mail and curbside voting expansions that the state adopted ahead of the 2020 presidential election due to the COVID-19 pandemic. House Bill 1871, sponsored by Democratic Party representative Katie Stuart, of Edwardsville, passed
March 15, 2021Dear editor; Spring was my mother’s favorite season. Spring meant new life and hope for brighter days after Winter’s dreary cold and snow. Spring is upon us now after a year of sheltering in our homes, hoping and praying for a way out to share time with family
By Jason Crane An Aurora mayoral candidate forum Monday, March 1 through the Zoom video conference platform, allowed viewers to learn more about the three candidates seeking the job as mayor of Aurora for the next four years. An election will be Tuesday, April 6. League of Women Voters Aurora
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, members agreed to postpone a vote on a plan to build a gas station at the northwest corner of Farnsworth Avenue and Molitor Road on the East Side. The resolution has been
Two early voting locations are available in Naperville for the April 6 General Municipal Election for residents of DuPage and Will Counties. Early voting will end Monday, April 5. Election Day is Tuesday, April 6. • Early voting for DuPage County Naperville residents will take place in Meeting Rooms A
By Sarah Mansur Less than a week after a deadly attack on Asian Americans in Atlanta, governor JB Pritzker and members of the General Assembly’s Asian American Caucus spoke out against the murders and against discrimination generally toward the Asian American community. “I do not pretend to know the pain
The Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Court (Kane County) is excited to announce a new Eviction Mediation Program, set to launch in April. With the eventual lifting of eviction moratoriums, the courts are seeking to mitigate the severe housing and financial impact the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic fallout is having on
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Databit by databit, we are building our own electronic concentration camps. With every new smart piece of smart technology we acquire, every new app we download, every new photo or post we share online, we are making it that much easier for the
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, the names of the nine members of Aurora’s Civilian Review Board (CRB) were revealed. Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin established the CRB to review, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning the
By Jason Crane An Aurora mayoral candidate forum Monday, March 1 through the Zoom video conference platform, allowed viewers to learn more about the three candidates seeking the job as mayor of Aurora for the next four years. An election will be Tuesday, April 6. League of Women Voters Aurora
March 8, 2021Dear editor; I am running for Village of Oswego Trustee. There are six of us candidates running for three open seats. If elected, my plan is to get up to speed as quickly as possible, and fill in the gaps between what I think I know and learn
By Tim Kirsininkas Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) director, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, said on Monday the State is “getting close” to the next phase of reopening amid increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates and decreasing positivity rates. Speaking in a Senate Health Committee meeting, Ezike said the State has been working
March 15, 2021Dear editor; I am writing as a proud member of the Waubonsee Community College Faculty Council. We have unanimously endorsed Giselle Gonzalez and Sandra González for two Trustee seats in the upcoming April 6 election. Ms Giselle Gonzalez, @giselleforwcc, is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, a former student
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Tyrants don’t like anyone who speaks truth to power. Indeed, the American Police State has shown itself to be particularly intolerant of free speech activities that challenge its authority, stand up to its power grabs, and force it to operate according to the
The League of Women Voters (LWVCKC) and the Geneva Chamber of Commerce will be partners for a candidate forum at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at Geneva Public Library, 227 S. Seventh Street, Geneva. The candidates for mayor of Geneva, Kevin Burns and Tom Simonian, have been invited to participate.
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, through the Zoom video conference platform, the City Council unanimously approved $1.2 million dollars for Aurora businesses struggling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resolution authorizes Marty Lyons, Aurora’s chief financial officer/city treasurer to disburse payments
By Jason Crane An Aurora mayoral candidate forum Monday, March 1 through the Zoom video conference platform, allowed viewers to learn more about the three candidates seeking the job as mayor of Aurora for the next four years. An election will be Tuesday, April 6. League of Women Voters Aurora
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitles them,
Did you know that Illinois is one of only 20 states with a township form of government? There will be more such information in the second part of the two-part Civic Education Series, Township Government: What does it do and why do we need it? Aurora Township trustee, Brenda Hernandez,
