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Posted by First Reading
Chatham Police Chief John Holm will be the featured speaker at this month’s Chatham Area Chamber of Commerce business luncheon.
The event is scheduled for Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Fulgenzi’s Trattoria in Chatham.
The luncheon cost...
Posted by First Reading
Everybody loves Girl Scout cookies, and the Rochester Village Board is no exception.
Trustees were treated to a box of Thin Mint cookies during their meeting Monday night, compliments of Girl Scout Troop 6582.
The troop, comprised of fifth-graders from Ro...
Posted by First Reading 2 days 17 hours ago.
Berns, Clancy and Associates – an engineering, surveying and planning consulting firm based in Urbana and Danville – has compiled municipal property tax data for 80 communities in central Illinois.
The list was sent to Chatham Village Presiden...
Posted by First Reading 5 days 23 hours ago.
Calling it “personal business,” Mayor Tim Davlin today wouldn’t answer questions about a vacation his took last week as the fate of dozens of city employees’ jobs remained up in the air.
Asked this week about a specific rumor that the mayor was in...
Posted by First Reading 6 days 17 hours ago.
With spring fast-approaching, the burning period for yard waste has resumed in Sherman and Williamsville.In Sherman, residents now may burn landscape waste from 9 a.m. until sunset on each Wednesday and on the first and third Saturdays and Sundays of eac...
Posted by First Reading 1 week 1 day ago.
The Sherman Village Board surprised North County Teen Court co-founder and executive director Bob Hoffek with a distinguished service award during its Feb. 17 board meeting.
Hoffek attended the meeting to solicit support for the Teen Court. But, Village P...
Posted by First Reading 1 week 2 days ago.
Missing from the Springfield entourage in Washington to lobby for federal funds: Mayor Tim Davlin.
The mayor decided not to go on the annual trip.
“There’s just too much going on here,” said Ernie Slottag, the city’s spokesman. “He d...
Posted by First Reading 1 week 6 days ago.
The University of Illinois Springfield’s baseball program hopes to call Chatham’s South Park its home field.
Coach Brian Grunzke made the request to village trustees during last week’s public properties committee meeting. He said the fie...
Posted by First Reading 2 weeks 19 hours ago.
Springfield Ward 5 Ald. Sam Cahnman can wait at least another three months before facing a jury on allegations he solicited sex from two undercover police officers.
According to court records, Cahnman requested a continuance of his trial, which was schedu...
Posted by First Reading 2 weeks 2 days ago.
Chatham Village Manager Del McCord and Trustee Tom Kavanagh are in Washingon, D.C., this week to attend the American Public Power Association’s annual legislative rally.
“We’ll go to our different representatives and push the different a...
Posted by First Reading 2 weeks 6 days ago.
With the clock ticking, union representatives are meeting with Mayor Tim Davlin today to discuss ways to avoid the layoffs of dozens of city employees.
The meeting comes after three of the city’s largest unions — police, fire and three locals of the A...
Posted by First Reading 4 weeks 1 day ago.
As Chatham officials draft a new liquor license classification that would allow the village’s Walgreens store to sell beer and wine, one local resident is speaking out.
Anita Bedell, a 34-year Chatham resident and executive director of Illinois Church A...
Posted by First Reading 1 month ago.
Springfield Mayor Tim Davlin has already been mentioned as a possible candidate to replace lieutenant governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen, The Bloomington Pantagraph is reporting.Read the story here.
Posted by First Reading 1 month ago.
Tonight’s Williamsville Village Board meeting has been canceled.
The cancellation is unrelated to the heavy snowfall expected tonight and early tomorrow.
The next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. To view the agenda, click here.
Posted by First Reading 1 month ago.
Ward 3 Ald. Frank Kunz spent about eight minutes on a Chicago AM radio station this morning talking about how Springfield is still owed money for hosting a 2008 campaign stop for then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama.
Kunz got the attention of AM 560 WIND after ...
Posted by First Reading 1 month ago.
The village of Chatham is working to become compliant with the National Incident Management System.
The program was developed by the federal government to help national, state and local agencies cohesively respond to large-scale emergencies.
Police Chief ...
Posted by First Reading 1 month ago.
A retired battalion chief with the Springfield Fire Department told aldermen Tuesday night that the city’s budget, which calls for furlough days, will cost lives.
“I believe the budget you’re about to vote on will in fact compromise the ability of f...
Posted by First Reading 1 month ago.
Representatives from the Chatham Area Chamber of Commerce and Chatham Jaycees have volunteered to help raise money to repair the deteriorating tennis courts in Chatham Community Park.
The village board put out a call for volunteers last month after learni...
Posted by First Reading 1 month ago.
A now-retired engineer in public works received the largest paycheck from the city of Springfield in 2009, according to a list from the city.
City officials today posted a list of employees and the amount of money each earned during calendar year 2009 on ...
Posted by First Reading 1 month ago.
The Rochester Village Board is holding a special meeting tonight to award a contract for the Black Branch Creek sanitary sewer replacement project.
The upgrade is the first phase in a roughly $1.5 million project to improve sewer capacity on the village...
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