East Grove, Pleasant Valley and Viola top the list in Illinois with the highest spending per capita in 2017, Illinois State Comptroller financial reports show.
About 30,433 Northwest Illinois residents – or about 19.7 percent of the region’s population – were on food stamp rolls in January 2017, according to a Northwest Illinois News analysis of 66 Illinois welfare offices.
Reps. Brian Stewart (R-Freeport) and John Cabello (R-Machesney Park) had serious issues with recent Democratic-sponsored gun legislation, saying the bills were rushed and had negative Second Amendment rights consequences.
At a Feb. 27 House Judiciary Criminal Committee meeting, proposed legislation regarding firearm magazines, which was brought before them in honor of Chicago police commander killed earlier in the month, had some committee members calling the legislation rushed and disrespectful to the 53-year-old commander.
In the last election, 55 assessors in 36 counties, including two in Ogle County, were illegally placed on the ballot and elected, according to the Edgar County Watchdogs.