[table id=31 /] 2004-5: No grants were allocated as such for these years but there were expenses listed as “contributions,” of $2,500 and $3,064, respectively. 2006: Yowza. 2007: There was rain and flooding. 2008: This was Corn Fest’s first year at the airport. 2009: Lady Antebellum probably saved their hash. Source: Grant Space Tools
Category: Community Resources
Town Hall Next Week at Conexion Comunidad
Third Ward Alderman Kristen Lash will hold a town hall meeting next Wednesday, August 31. So far, participants are: Kristen Lash, 3rd Ward Alderman Jim Luebke, DeKalb Township Trustee Paul Stoddard, County Board, District 9 Julia Fauci, County Board, District 9 Alderman Lash hopes also to include a representative of the District 428 school board.…
58 Banks Closed So Far in 2011
There have been 58 bank closures through July 22, five of them in Illinois, including one in St. Charles. Daily Markets looks at the current climate. Looking back, there were 157 bank failures in 2010, 140 in 2009 and 25 in 2008. While the financials of bigger banks have been stabilizing on the back of…
Feed’Em Soup Wins a New Toyota
DeKalb County’s Feed’Em Soup Community Project just won a new vehicle in the Toyota 100 Cars for Good program. After announcing 500 non-profit finalists in April, Toyota has been in the process of giving away one car per day for 100 days. The winners are selected by popular vote on Toyota USA’s Facebook page. Feed’Em…
Third Ward Town Hall
[Addition 6/2: DeKalb Township trustee Jim Luebke will also attend. Sorry for the oversight.] The first DeKalb Third Ward town hall meeting is Thursday, June 2, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Fourth and Locust at 6 p.m. Illinois Representative Bob Pritchard, DeKalb County Board members Paul Stoddard and Julia Fauci, and District 428 School…
Building Hope
Click here to access the Facebook page for Hope Haven’s Building Hope campaign.
Naperville City Council Asks Its Public Library to Make Cuts
An alert longtime CB reader took the time to send a link to a Daily Herald story about Naperville’s public library today: The library’s levy request of $12,450,000 for fiscal year 2012 was 3.15 percent, or $400,000 more than the previous year, but city council members asked the board to find and consider as much…
Boone County Watchdog Runs with Bank Post
Check out this local issues blog synergy. Boone County Watchdog took my December 31 post, “Bank Troubles 2010”, spotlighted Castle Bank (which has a presence in Boone County) and put it into the big picture with “Bank Issues which Received Little News Coverage”. Some of it was news to me, so thought I’d share. Thanks…
Re-forming the League of Women Voters Locally
As expressed by many in attendance at the DeKalb Area Women’s Center for the DeKalb County Candidate Debate night, there is interest in re-forming a local League of Women Voters locally. For those who are not already members, please join through: http://www.lwvil.org/ and clicking the Join Us button. There will be a state-wide issues briefing…
Bank Troubles 2010
The Washington Post reports that 2010 brought the largest number of bank failures since 1992. The total comes to 157 this year, the most since the savings & loan crisis. The Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation (FDIC) lists 16 Illinois banks with 2010 closure dates. The list of failed institutions at the FDIC is filled with…