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"Libraries should be a place for people to become educated and informed:" Lombard Library Board challengers want more books, less politics

By LGIS News Service | Apr 2, 2023

Two Lombard library board candidates want the Helen M. Plum Memorial Public Library to be a place to go for books, not political sermonizing.

While on City Council, Naperville Mayoral hopeful White voted for $50K in taxpayer-funded grants to wife’s non-profit

By LGIS News Service | Apr 2, 2023

While on the Naperville City Council, Mayoral candidate Benny White voted to send more than $50,000 in taxpayer funds to a non-profit run by his wife, city records show.

Downers Grove school board candidate Renner directs $25K in donations from soccer club, to school leaders backing him

By LGIS News Service | Apr 1, 2023

On the eve of the April 4 consolidated elections, a Downers Grove school board candidate has directed $25,000 in funds from a local non-profit he controls to school leaders backing him.

Naperville City Council slate proposes transforming downtown with subsidized, low-income housing

By LGIS News Service | Mar 30, 2023

A slate of Naperville City Council candidates are running on a platform of bringing more low-income, Section 8 apartments to the city's downtown.

April 4 Voter Cheat Sheet: Who are the Republicans and Democrats running in 24 competitive DuPage school board elections?

By LGIS News Service | Mar 28, 2023

There are 24 competitive school board races in DuPage County, according to an analysis of candidate filings by 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

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