Government - Local

Record appeals spur effort

WOODSTOCK – Elected leaders have started a campaign to ask state lawmakers to allocate $4.7 million toward improving the southern intersection of Routes 47 and 176.

LAKE IN THE HILLS – The village’s new finance director is a familiar face.

Cary gives Clark a 3 percent raise

Former Republican McHenry County Board member Robert Bless has been fired from his job as a Cook County Sheriff’s Office deputy after its disciplinary board concluded that he had violated several rules regarding his other employment.

WOODSTOCK - The McHenry County Board granted Chairwoman Tina Hill one of her two requests regarding the embattled Mental Health Board.

WOODSTOCK – McHenry County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill will not pursue a vote tonight to replace a member of the Public Health and Human Services Committee.

CARY – Whether District 26 will help pay for a study on the future of the closed Maplewood School property is uncertain.

Views split on Health Board vote

CARY – A proposed ordinance to prevent littering, motivated by the distribution of unwanted publications, is being considered by the village.

CARY – The village needs to fill one seat on its police pension fund board.

A bill stripping pension and insurance benefits from future appointees to Chicago-area mass-transit boards is on its way to Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk.

WOODSTOCK – A vacant Mental Health Board seat has sparked a showdown between County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill and the committee in charge of filling it.

McHENRY – For the first time in her life, Pauline Applegate was excited to mow her lawn.

McHENRY – The city of McHenry inched closer Monday to a new aquatic and recreation center.