After months of sometimes acrimonious debate, the Gillespie City Council on Monday night voted 4-3 to reject the Assembly of God Church’s offer to transfer ownership...
Meeting in special session Monday night, members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education voted unanimously Monday night to rescind its long-standing policy...
Administrators updated school board members on the impact of an online academic improvement platform during a meeting of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of...
In a relatively brief meeting Monday night, members of the Benld City Council agreed to pay for a recently completed structural engineer’s assessment of a former...
Macoupin County Clerk Pete Duncan announced that new voter cards are being mailed to every registered voter in the county in the next few weeks. Duncan...
Gillespie City Council members on Monday set a public hearing on a new proposed Tax Increment Financing district for 5:30 p.m., Monday, March 14, at Gillespie...
The Illinois State Police (ISP) Firearms Services Bureau (FSB) is announcing several changes to the Firearm Owner Identification (FOID) Card program based on statutory changes to...
Administrators from each of Community Unit School District 7’s three schools analyzed data from the Illinois State Board of Education’s annual report card during the regular...
Members of the Benld City Council on Monday night approved a property tax levy of slightly more than $113,000, approved a new ward map, approved a...
Macoupin County has been issued a tentative property assessment equalization factor of 1.0000, according to David Harris, Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue. The property assessment...
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 59,312 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including an increase of...
Members of the Gillespie City Council on Monday night took significant steps toward establishing a second Tax Increment Financing district, the objective of which will primarily...
SPRINGFIELD – Beginning January 1, 2022, the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) will be responsible for maintaining a database that allows the public to search certified payrolls...
Members of the Community Unit School District 7 Board of Education on Monday night tentatively approved a property tax levy for taxes to be collected next...
Members of the Benld City Council on Monday night approved resolutions to declare two properties as public nuisances, hired a third Maintenance Department employee, and reorganized...
The much-anticipated vote on whether or not to take possession of the former Canna Theater was tabled until next month by the Gillespie City Council on...
Gillespie City Council members voted on Monday night to start the process for establishing a new Tax Increment Financing district and ratified a long-awaited contract with...
An ad hoc committee appointed by Gillespie Mayor John Hicks to investigate whether or not the city should accept donation of the 100-year-old Canna Theater building...
The Macoupin County Board will soon be deciding on the district lines for the next ten years of each County Board district as well as possible...
The Benld City Council on Monday night authorized a local yoga instructor to use the Civic Center to offer community yoga classes, voted to return a...
