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BGA – Too Many Boards for us to Support
Illinois is home to more than 300 separate tax-payer supported boards and commissions, many of them costly and of dubious value. It’s a poster child for government excess — watchers watching watchers — that should have been streamlined years ago. Run a business? Perform a public service? Have a civic interest? Enjoy a hobby? Then […]
New Tolls already planned for Elgin-O’Hare Route
Although the long-awaited, $3.4 billion Elgin O’Hare Western Access Project will not be completed until around 2025, Federal officials have already signed off on plans to convert the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway into a wider, longer, “all-electronic” tollway with an estimated 20 cents a mile toll that would access the western edge of O’Hare Airport by 2018. The […]
Local Scholarships Offered
UNITY IN COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS The Unity in Community Foundation, will be awarding $4,000 in scholarships to Leyden High School Seniors. Once again we will be awarding the Lucia Ramirez Community Involvement Scholarship to an East and West campus senior in the amount of $1,000 each. New this year is the Smerz-Horvath Athletic Scholarship for $1,000 […]
SALUTE TO OUR SOLDIERS – Feb., 2013
CUP OF JOE FOR A JOE PROGRAM Green Bean Coffee offers a program where you can purchase a cup of Joe that will then supply a troop or troops with Green Bean Coffee. You are also able to send a personal message to the troops and the troops can respond back, if they choose, to […]
MELROSE MUSCLE THERAPY
New Menu of Massage & Spa Offerings Melrose Muscle Therapy reveals a new menu of offerings to include new body treatments, featured products, packages, and signature favorites. Melrose Muscle Therapy introduces all new body treatments with options designed to provide an array of beauty outcomes. For silky smooth, replenished skin, there is the Chocolate Indulgence […]
No Snow Streak Ends
No Snow Streak ends after a record 335 Days! Winter has finally arrived! The Chicagoland area has been spoiled for a record 335 days without any measurable snow. That came to an end on Friday, January 25 when 1.1 inches was recorded at O’Hare International Airport officially breaking the area’s snowless streak, according to the […]
All In Favor – Schiller Park Village Board Meetings January, 2013
Schiller Park Village Board Meetings January 8, 2013 Called to Order 8 pm Adjourned 8:18 pm Absent: Trustees Clementi and Desecki Vicent L. Cavalieri was sworn in as a Police Office. Probationary Police Officer Russell Zagorski resigned to join the Chicago Police Department The Board approved the following: Payment of $9,499.00 to Rag’s Electric Company […]
Quigley Named to Powerful House Appropriations Committee
Committee approves spending for nearly all federal programs U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) was appointed by the Democratic Caucus to the powerful House Committee on Appropriations, which is responsible for approving the federal government’s annual spending levels for nearly all federal programs. Rep. Quigley will be the only member from Illinois to serve on the […]
Quigley Announces Staff Changes
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) named Mary Ann Levar as his new District Director and Laura Sisemore as his new Communications Director following the departure of District Director and longtime communications advisor Aviva Bowen. “Mary Ann has provided outstanding constituent services, and Laura has been instrumental promoting efforts at home and in DC. Our district […]
QUIGLEY INTRODUCES BILL TO COMBAT FLOW OF ILLEGAL GUNS
TRACE Act improves the ATF’s ability to identify the source of illicit guns and pursue gun traffickers. WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) will reintroduce the Trafficking Reduction and Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act, which cracks down on the illegal gun market by improving gun tracking data. The bill also repeals the Tiahrt Amendments, […]
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