Just when we thought all possible damage had been done – i.e. enshrinement of 1960s collectivist policies into Wilmette’s comprehensive zoning plan and the Pyrrhic victory of the Mallinckrodt development project financed by the taxpayers of Wilmette (thankfully emerged recently out of bankruptcy) – up pops our very own seasoned welfare housing advocate to take on the deliciously blank property the village…
Is Northfield joining the country of Malaysia? The national flag of Malaysia replaced the American flag outside a Northfield, IL public park district building Saturday, an action that appears to violate the traditions of the U.S. Federal Flag Code. A group gathered at Clarkson Park on Willow Road, presumably to celebrate Malaysian Independence Day, erected…
LOCAL CORRUPTION BEAT If New Trier Township, Illinois, Republican voters thought they were going to be able to sleep through the primary election tomorrow (or play 9 holes of golf), today’s news will change everything. New Trier Republican Committeeman Bill Cadigan, who was appointed to fill Tolbert Chisum’s position, was peremptorily fired today by the chairman…
The First Amendment must have been uncomfortably stuck in the craw of one North Shore government official for the past 17 years. It seems as though former Wilmette Village President John Jacoby felt a need to cough that annoying chunk of Constitutional inconvenience right out when he read about the vehicle sticker design kerfuffle in…
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that New Trier’s administration is looking at supplying some students with iPads–not just in the classr oom but for their 24/7 personal use as well. With this technology solution in hand, now they just have to come up with a curriculum need to match. Maybe they should check with Wilmette District…
Letter published 12.14.11 in the Wilmette Beacon and Winnetka Current (*unedited version*) by Eva Sorock For several years, the Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs, led by executive director Gail Schechter – a longtime Wilmette liberal community activist with every appearance of being schooled in Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals – has been campaigning…
