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Jim Oberweis and Chris Lauzen interviews

Friday, December 7th, 2007
Filed under: kanecounty, politics

Each of the 14th District candidates sat down with Jeff Berkowitz for one-on-one interviews:

Jim Oberweis interview on YouTube.
Chris Lauzen interview on YouTube.

If you dig through the related videos list, you’ll also find interviews with other candidates including Geneva mayor Kevin Burns, John Laesch and Jotham Stein. There’s also an interview with Elgin’s former state […]

On the heels of moonshine

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Filed under: business, kanecounty

The Times published a nice story about specialty liquor production:
With its abundance of grain and fruit, the Midwest stands poised to capitalize on the confluence of trends unlike any other region and could, in time, come to rival California, currently the leader in small-scale distilling, experts said. (source: New York Times 11/25/07)
This is an interesting […]

Finish the condos

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
Filed under: citycouncil, downtown, kanecounty

Looking out from Brewfest at Festival Park last week, it was unsettling to see that a lot of the houses at River Park Place are still vacant. Interior construction appeared to be finished in all of them, so it looked like they were unsold units. The housing market is not in […]

Kane part-timers

Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Filed under: kanecounty, politics

By state statute, a delay in any one of the county’s 15 townships postpones tax bills being sent to all the county’s taxpayers…
Late assessments mean late delivery of property tax bills, and any postponement in tax collections means Kane County loses the revenue it would have collected as interest if it could deposit the $900 […]