The leader of the opposition to Hinsdale 86’s proposed $166 million referendum that the voters rejected in November says the Board of Education has resorted to scare tactics to keep hopes of a referendum alive.

Burr Ridge Mayor Michael “Mickey” Straub said that his effort to defeat Hinsdale D86’s $166 million referendum had nothing to do with his Nov. 12 announcement that he was stepping down from office. A Nov. 14 Chicago Tribune article cited Straub’s being “under fire from supporters” of the referendum as at least a partial factor in his resignation with two and a half years still left in his term.

Opponents of a $166 million Hinsdale District 86 ballot initiative have asked police to investigate social media posts threatening them.

A grassroots movement that on Tuesday defeated Hinsdale District 86’s proposed $166 referendum is now looking to run candidates for four school board seats that will be contested in April.

The local teachers union has entered the battle over Hinsdale D86’s $166 million referendum in a big way, donating about $30,000 to the “Yes” in the days before Tuesday's election.

A woman caught on videotape Oct. 26 taking down signs of a grassroots movement working to defeat the school’s $166 million referendum will not face charges.

An election guide posted on the Communist Party USA’s (CPUSA) website said that the party is “deploying its resources” to unseat U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), as part of a larger effort to flip 24 Republican seats the Democrats need to capture control of the House.

Like some other single 30-year-olds, Bridget Fitzgerald still lives with her parents, in Western Springs.

The U.S. Department of Education’s dismissal of a discrimination complaint against Hinsdale High School District 86 has hardened the battle lines between school officials and a group of residents vowing to erase what they view as inequity between the district’s two high schools, Central and South. It has also escalated a war of words between the two sides.

Morton College is on a slippery slope of losing its accreditation, and its president and director of operations are placing at least part of the blame on the school’s attorney, Michael Del Galdo, a source close to the situation told West Cook News.

A $166 million referendum approved in early August by Hinsdale High School District 86 has a slim chance with the voters in November without school attendance boundaries for Central and South high schools in place, says Zach Mottl, a Burr Ridge trustee and co-chair of a citizens group fighting for parity between the schools.

A proposed change in the bylaws of the Cook County Republican Party that would have allowed Democrats to serve as Republican ward committeemen fizzled at a meeting of party officials July 25 and county Republicans lacked a quorum necessary for a vote after nearly 30 committeemen boycotted the meeting.

Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel said that a juvenile arrested recently for stealing a motorbike is why carjacking legislation introduced earlier this year in Springfield was no “overreach” as some have claimed.

Hinsdale Township High School District 86 voted on Monday night to eliminate the buffer zone between its Central and South High Schools.

Boundaries governing which of two highs schools -- Central or South -- students attend in Hinsdale Township High School District 86 could change now that the school board has decided to place the controversial issue on its June 18 meeting agenda.

Chicago-area law enforcement got a portion of what they wanted in carjacking legislation approved on the last day of the spring session in Springfield when a few days before it appeared as though they would get only a watered-down change in the law.

Laura Durkin, a sister-in-law to House Republican Leader Jim Durkin, last worked in 2001 selling office furniture before landing a $80,000-a-year job last spring with the Illinois Tollway as general manager of Engineering.

Republicans from at least one township in Cook County said that Tuesday's endorsement of Gov. Bruce Rauner was the outcome of a rigged process and not a reflection of grass-roots support within the party.

Burr Ridge has taken the first step in defending its fiscal reputation in the face of accusations from House Republican Leader Jim Durkin’s re-election campaign that the village finances are nothing short of a disaster.

Burr Ridge Mayor Mickey Straub said he hopes that Rep. Jim Durkin’s sister-in-law cleared all the proper channels in getting her job last April as general manager of engineering at the Illinois Tollway, but a recent story by the Chicago Daily Herald raises suspicions that she did not.