Spring Creek Association’s Committee of Architecture will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12, at the Fairway Community Center. The panel will accept nominations and elect a member to serve as vice chairman for the remainder of the term. Elko City Council has scheduled a […]

Two words rarely heard in politics these days but spoken Friday by several Bettendorf residents on opposite sides of the aisle. In a parking lot, they aired grievances about a parade, a social media post, water balloons, and perhaps, fallible memories and miscommunications.  At the […]

Banks and schools were closed. Federal and state offices were not open. But at the Cayuga County Office Building, it was business as usual.  Juneteenth, the anniversary of when the last enslaved people were freed in Texas, was officially observed on Monday. It became federal […]

WHAT WE KNOW: The city of Geneseo rents office space at City Hall to Republican state Senator Win Stoller. WHAT’S NEW: In agreeing to renew the rental Tuesday night, the council heard a concern from Alderman Martin Rothschild about renting to a partisan elected official. […]

The board that oversees Omaha’s public libraries voted Thursday to approve the creation of an advisory committee that will make recommendations on future library operations, including the proposed construction of a new main library. Omaha Public Library Board members and city officials have backed the […]

Nine Rock Island police officers have been honored by the city for exemplary actions, including a life-saving award for two officers who talked a man out of jumping off the Centennial Bridge in November.  “I’m very proud of all the work that we do,” Rock […]

Six Rock Island County elected officials are asking for a 7% pay increase that would put their salaries in the neighborhood of $100,000 per year.  The elected positions that would receive raises include the county treasurer, clerk, coroner, auditor, circuit clerk and recorder. Rock Island […]

Mark Schlinkmann ,  Jacob Barker ST. LOUIS  — John Collins-Muhammad on Wednesday morning abruptly announced his resignation from the Board of Aldermen. Collins-Muhammad, who was reelected last April to a second term from the 21st Ward covering the north St. Louis neighborhoods between O’Fallon Park and […]

The architects and engineers of Scott County’s planned new 40-bed juvenile detention facility said they prioritized a “calming and restorative environment” in designing the building.  Scott County Supervisors saw early designs from Illinois-based firm Wold Architects & Engineers on Tuesday of the floor plan and […]

Pima County’s election officials are readying to implement the first year of replacing precinct-based polling places with vote centers and electronic poll books ahead of August’s primary elections. The Pima County Board of Supervisors approved the locations of 129 vote centers in a 4-1 vote […]