Articles filed under Referendum
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Time for park board to find other optionsMar 26, 2012 5:00 am - We take little joy in having had to oppose this referendum. If the park board had been doing its job we would not have had to oppose this. The park board and the media h...
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Bartlett trustee key to aggregation defeatMar 23, 2012 3:55 pm - Only a few of the hundreds of Illinois communities voting on electric aggregation Tuesday rejected it. Bartlett was one of them, and the main reason may have been a Bart...
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Suburbs working to flip switch on electrical supplyMar 23, 2012 3:54 pm - Though suburban residents voted largely in favor of electricity aggregation in referendums Tuesday, the process of translating that into customer savings won’t be as qui...
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Across the state, voters approve electricity aggregationMar 21, 2012 8:17 pm - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Measures giving local officials power to negotiate for lower-priced electricity have passed in most of the nearly 300 Illinois towns where they were on...
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Elburn could consider service cuts to fund police pension obligationMar 21, 2012 4:59 pm - Elburn President Dave Anderson said Wednesday he was disappointed, but not surprised, by voters’ refusal to establish a property tax to pay police pensions. He said he u...
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Fox River Grove sales tax hike may not face challengeMar 21, 2012 4:00 pm - Success rates for referendums involving tax increases were split across the Northwest suburbs in Tuesday's election and none were closer than in Fox River Grove where vo...
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Bartlett, Barrington Hills alone in opposing electricity referendumMar 21, 2012 12:00 am - Bartlett and Barrington Hills were the only holdouts in Cook County's Northwest suburbs on a referendum allowing municipal leaders to negotiate with companies other than...
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Most DuPage towns want new electric optionsMar 20, 2012 10:48 pm - Nearly all of the 17 DuPage County towns that voted on shared electrical service want a change, based on Tuesday’s election results. Voters were asked whether they want ...
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Itasca residents say ‘no’ to home ruleMar 20, 2012 10:46 pm - Itasca voters told village officials they don’t want them to have home-rule power. With all 10 precincts reporting, about 55 percent of voters opposed the measure that ...
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Glen Ellyn voters say ‘yes’ to field lightsMar 20, 2012 10:32 pm - Glen Ellyn voters strongly support allowing Glenbard West High School to install and operate four 70-foot and two 60-foot light poles at Memorial Field. With all 38 pre...