Dupage Policy Journal

Ives: Naperville pol property tax exemptions "taking advantage of a law that was not intended for them."

By LGIS News Service | Mar 27, 2023

Former State Representative and U.S. Army veteran Jeanne Ives said a state law exempting disabled veterans from property taxes was intended to help the "severly disabled," not "marathoners" and "partners in law firms" with "$1 million homes."

Disabled from service as JAG attorney, Naperville City Council member Holzhauer living property tax-free

By LGIS News Service | Mar 21, 2023

Since he left the U.S. Air Force in 2014, 40 year-old Naperville City Council member Ian Holzhauer has completed the Chicago Marathon.

On $950K Naperville home, mayoral candidate White has property tax bill of $0

By LGIS News Service | Mar 20, 2023

Naperville City Council member and mayoral candidate Benjamin M. White says he wants to spend city taxpayer dollars on "green energy," mental health trainings and "diversity and inclusion" initiatives.

Naperville city council hopeful Ashley South is new to politics, but familiar with fast lane

By LGIS News Service | Mar 16, 2023

Ashley South is a banking technology consultant-turned-magazine publisher. But she might have been a race car driver.

"Feel free to reach out to me anytime;" Emails reveal Downers Grove H.S. superintendent plotting with Congressman's wife on school board race

By LGIS News Service | Feb 7, 2023

Before announcing her run for Community High School District 99 school board, the wife of U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-Downers Grove) sought to discuss her candidacy with the district's superintendent, who she would oversee if elected.

Analysis: 57 percent of DuPage County public high school students failed 2022 state English exam; Scores fell 15 percent from 2019

By LGIS News Service | Jan 7, 2023

Nearly six in ten DuPage County public high school students aren't at grade level in English. That's according to 2022 test score data compiled by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).

One year after vax scandal, Bloomingdale's Nizamuddin makes State House bid

By LGIS News Service | Nov 1, 2022

DuPage County lawyer and candidate for state representative Azam Nizamuddin took early COVID-19 vaccine doses that had been reserved for hospital workers and gave them to friends and family, at his Bloomingdale home.

With DuPage property taxes set to spike, Glen Ellyn voters to decide whether theirs should be even higher

By LGIS News Service | Oct 12, 2022

Already more than twice the national average, DuPage County property taxes are rising. Now Glen Ellyn school leaders want theirs to be even higher.

Jussie Sadowski? Village commissioner alerts Downers Grove to threat by “maga” mispeller

By LGIS News Service | Sep 30, 2022

A Downers Grove village commissioner is alerting community members to a "maga" threat by a purported Confederate sympathizer who conspicuously misspells common words.

Village of Glen Ellyn to host "LGBTQ+ pool party" for "people in the rainbow identity" ages 13 to 24

By LGIS News Service | Jul 27, 2022

Join your Young: Equal friends for an after-hours pool party!

Bipartisan PAC urges State’s Attorney Berlin to oppose SAFE-T Act

By LGIS News Service | Jul 27, 2022

DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin, a Republican, is being urged to join an effort to repeal Illinois’ controversial SAFE-T Act, which retools multiple parts of the criminal justice system, including the elimination of cash bail.

DuPage County school districts divided on conforming to state’s new sex education policy

By LGIS News Service | Jun 24, 2022

The 42 school districts in DuPage County are divided on conforming to Illinois’ new law that aligns sex education policies for grades K-12 with national standards.

Jim Ryan (1946-2022)

By LGIS News Service | Jun 12, 2022

Former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan passed away peacefully at home on June 12, 2022, at the age of 76 after several lengthy illnesses.

Hinsdale D86 parent on DEI: "We do not want to be a Lyons Township"

By LGIS News Service | May 16, 2022

A Hinsdale High School District 86 parent warned the district's board against promoting Marxist "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI) ideology upon students in the district, or else it risked becoming "a Lyons Township."

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Illinois LG candidate Trussell: Trump's "phenomenal speech" at CPAC a strong contrast to Biden's "America last" SOTU

By LGIS News Service | Mar 2, 2022

Illinois Lieutenant Governor candidate Stephanie Trussell of Lisle said President Donald Trump's

Online funder promises cash to Benet Academy if it will "redirect" school from Catholic teaching, back "LGBTQ" initiatives

By LGIS News Service | Feb 21, 2022

A Go Fund Me campaign is promising money to Lisle's Benet Academy if the school agrees to a new "vision" for the school that eschews Catholic teaching.

Glen Ellyn District 41 School Board votes down mask mandate; students to have uncovered faces on Feb. 22

By LGIS News Service | Feb 15, 2022

At a special board meeting tonight, the Glen Ellyn District 41 School Board voted 4-1 in favor of going mask-optional, allowing its 3,576 students to attend school for the first time in nearly two years with their faces uncovered.

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Glenbard 87 Superintendent Larson: Basketball games safe because fans "facing one direction;" "A dance is not safe for students."

By LGIS News Service | Feb 14, 2022

Glenbard Township District 87 Superintendent David Larson told high school parents he cancelled school dances because he believed they were "not safe for students," and that school basketball games were safe because "spectators at athletic events are seated, usually facing in one direction."

Glen Ellyn School Board member Loebach, student mask advocate, takes mask-less selfie at coffee house

By LGIS News Service | Feb 9, 2022

Glen Ellyn District 41 School board member Jason Loebach, an advocate of mandatory student masking of children in the district's classrooms, posted a mask-less selfie on social media this week.

"As someone with an actual law degree..:" Pro-mask Naperville lawyer Dave Nordsieck slams parents opposing them