The Ten Commandments for 21st-Century America: “I am The Donald thy President, which have brought thee out of the land of liberalism, out of the house of Obama. “Thou shalt have no other President but me. “Thou shalt not make any graven image or any likeness of anything, unless it
Governor JB Pritzker has signed a measure into law sponsored by State representative Keith R. Wheeler, R-Oswego, to remove the statute of limitations on prosecuting sexual assault offenses and thereby give law enforcement and prosecutors the ability to conduct an investigation and bring charges against a suspect without a time
By John W. Whitehead “But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin…they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” —Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
AOC “Squad”: Who in the media is responsible for this term in the reference to four members of the House of Representatives? MEDIAite Colby Hall addresses this issue in the following article: “Among the many horrible news trends that have occurred of late, near the top of that list is
How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” has none? You persuade the people that the menace they face, imaginary or not, is so sinister, so overwhelming, so fearsome that the
New and returning members of the Library Board of Trustees were sworn into their term of service at the Sugar Grove Public Library District May 22. The Board of Trustees is composed of seven members who serve four-year terms in the valuable role of stewardship and governance to the Library.
Members of the Aurora City Council pose for photos following their being sworn into office Tuesday evening at the Paramount Theatre by Judge Vincent Cornelius of the Will County 12th Judicial Circuit Court. From left, Michael Saville, Sixth Ward; Theodoros Mesiacos, Third Ward; Carl Franco, Fifth Ward; Patty Smith, Eighth
April 20, 2019 Dear editor; I say, all you Democrats who want to see Donald Trump’s income tax records, don’t you think you might first quit stumbling over your own dirty door step? How about asking about the Clinton Foundation’s activities, and exactly about all that money that Horn Dog
Steve Chirico, mayor of Naperville, takes the oath of office for a second term Sunday at the Special City Council ceremony at the Naperville Municipal Center. Judge Kavita Athanikar presides. She is the 18th Judicial Circuit of DuPage County Associate Judge. Mayor Chirico’s family serves as witness. A video of
North Aurora Village trustees Mark Carroll, Mark Guethle, and Laura Curtis are sworn in by Village Board president Dale Berman at the Village Board meeting Monday. All three trustees were re-elected. • The Board approved a new traffic signal controller for the Ice Cream Drive and Randall Road intersection for
The Oswego Village Board poses for photos after being sworn in by Kendall County 23rd Judicial Circuit Judge Timothy McCann. Judge McCann swears in first-term Village president Troy Parlier.
Homeowners are invited to receive one-on-one assistance understanding and appealing their property tax bills at an event presented by State representative Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, and Naperville Township assessor Warren Dixon III at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 16 at the Aurora Public Library Eola Branch, 555 S. Eola Road, Aurora. “Skyrocketing
By Grant Morgan – Special counsel Robert Mueller’s recently released his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election which repeated what many Illinois leaders already knew: That it suffered the worst election data breach of any state in the country when Russian agents stole the personal information of more
Spring finally has sprung…somewhere. That’s how I started last time, but it seems the appropriate way to begin again I sit here and wait for a massive amount of snow to be dumped on us in the next few hours. Whatever happened to March coming in like a lion and
By Deena Sherman – My mother and I don’t always agree. In fact, we sometimes vehemently disagree, especially about politics. When I mentioned to her that her grandchildren are thrilled that Bernie Sanders is running for president again, there was a long pause. She finally broke the silence with: “You
Time for another Bold New Idea. It has to do with the Senate of the United States, that so-called gentlemen’s club and greatest deliberative body in the history of the world. Of late, however, very few Senators have behaved as gentlemen, more like louts, in my humble opinion, and the
A reception for outgoing Oswego Village Board members at Oswego Village Hall Monday prior to a special Village Board meeting offers a salute. From left, Luis Perez, Joe West, Judy Sollinger, Village administrator Daniel Di Santo, Pam Parr, Karin McCarthy-Lange, Ryan Kauffman, Gail Johnson. Outgoing Board members are West, McCarthy-Lange,
Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL 11th District) issued a statement after the U.S. Department of Justice released a redacted copy of the Mueller report last week: “The Mueller report outlines disturbing behavior by president (Donald) Trump, including attempts to ‘curtail’ the special counsel’s investigation. The report makes clear that the facts
By JERRY NOWICKI – Capitol News Illinois Jnowicki@capitolnewsillinois.com Stakeholders from northern Illinois added to the State’s list of capital funding requests Monday, April 22 when lawmakers from both sides of the aisle acknowledged more revenue would be necessary to get the State’s infrastructure back in working order. “The need
By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com A key supporter of an initiative to legalize adult recreational marijuana in Illinois said substantial bill language will be filed soon, and the issue could be one of the first discussed by State lawmakers when they return to the Statehouse in Springfield
