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Elgin Chief of Police Lisa Womack is expected to resign her position, local newspapers reported today. Deputy Chief Jeff Swoboda is now the acting chief.
No reasons have been given for her departure.
See the Courier and Daily Herald coverage.

Here’s your regularly scheduled monthly open thread. Discuss what you wish.

Here’s your regularly scheduled monthly open thread.

In the past couple of weeks in particular I noticed a pattern of comments left by a few members of this forum which were primarily personal attacks against one or more other members of this forum. This is a reminder to everyone to refrain from gratuitous remarks, sarcasm or ridicule directed at people who are just trying to discuss things on this site. If you engage in this sort of behavior, your comments will go into moderation, and I don’t plan on moderating comments often, which means if they pass …

Mike Robins suggested we do a monthly open thread instead of weekly, which sounds like a good idea to me. You can use this throughout the month of January to post whatever you want. If this goes well we’ll do the same thing at the beginning of each month. I guess we will discontinue the weekly open thread for now at least.
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Here’s your annual Christmas lolcat.

Merry Christmas