The Village of Downers Grove is reporting on its website that Laborers’ District Council of Chicago, Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers and a consortium of local contractors have reached a tentative agreement.
Local 150 workers went on strike July 1, days before the scheduled closure of the Belmont crossing. That project is [...]
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Belmont work to resume
July 21st, 2010 · 16 Comments · Public Safety, Public Works, Stormwater, Village Hall
Village budget: 2011 edition
July 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Village Council, Village Hall, budget, government
Tuesday was the Long Range Financial Planning meeting (see Required reading for background, as well as category budget for DGreports extensive posts on past budgets). Barnett and Beckman were unable to attend. All the curve balls and budget sucker punches thrown by the state we’ve already discussed. There was a general agreement among council members that the existing [...]
Strike stops village projects
July 1st, 2010 · 19 Comments · Breaking News, Stormwater, Village Hall
Just what we didn’t need…
Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers went on strike at midnight Wednesday against contractors all over the greater metro area of northeast Illinois. The unions’ three-year contracts with construction companies expired May 31. The strike effects hundreds of summer construction projects, from the Eisenhower Expressway down to Downers Grove.
That work [...]
Storm damage
June 20th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Breaking News, Public Works, Village Hall, Weather Events
Friday’s one-two punch left considerable damage and widespread power outages.
These photos were taken in the immediate aftermath of the afternoon wave of high winds and heavy rain.
In my neighborhood, the area north of Prairie and west of Main seemed hardest hit, with many big limbs down.
The village public works department was out as soon as [...]
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Weed season
June 1st, 2010 · 20 Comments · Neighbohoods, Public Works, Village Hall
The recent rain, heat and humidity have generated a bumper crop of weeds, as is particularly evident on certain unoccupied properties around town.
Pictured at right (click to enlarge) is a commercial property on Ogden Avenue at Prince Street, where the weeds have grown tall enough to obscure the fire hydrant. Another formerly shaggy downtown commercial [...]
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Village explains its slice of tax pie
May 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Taxes, Village Council, Village Hall, budget
Updated: 4 p.m.
The village has added a page to its website explaining its share of residents’ property tax bills and linking to tax bill information presented by Assistant Village Manager Mike Baker at the May 4 council meeting.
The village also uploaded a video of Baker’s presentation to YouTube, which can be accessed by clicking here: [...]
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Open book
April 24th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Village Hall, Village Manager
Open government gets a lot of topic time everywhere nowadays. Here’s a shining example of walking the walk put right under your nose.
If you want to know what’s going on right now, this is a good place to start…
Required reading
April 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Village Hall
The Village of Downers Grove 2009 Annual Report summarizes a wide variety of information pertinent to the village.
Clicking on the cover or the title will take you directly to the village website copy of the report.
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Through the roof
May 3rd, 2010 · 7 Comments · Commentary, District 58, District 99, Education, Taxes, Village Hall, state politics
Our 2009 tax bill is officially through the roof, breaking through the $6,000 barrier for the first time. That’s right, $6,000-plus for an 1,875-square-foot, 85-year-old residence on a 50-foot lot.
And that’s it for me. This year, I finally will file the appeal I’ve threatened so many times in the past. This year, I’ll stay on [...]
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