Northwest Herald | McHenry County Board to ponder referendums

How many referendums?

The McHenry County Board will decide Thursday whether to put a referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot to make the board chairmanship popularly elected.

The move is meant to challenge a referendum placed on the ballot by state Rep. Jack Franks to change to a county executive form of government. And the potential second referendum by the county has raised the opportunity for a third.

Board members not only will decide whether to add their referendum, but also an advisory referendum requested by anti-township activist Bob Anderson.

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IEPA waiting for response to complaint about odor in Garden Prairie| Belvidere Daily Republican

Written by Bob Balgemann

He said the facility, found to have 25 violations, had 15 days left in a 45-day window to respond to the state’s notice. “We will either accept or reject it,” he said.

Jacobsen was quick to say the company was “trying to do their best to rectify the situation.”

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Daily Chronicle | With Illinois Cares Rx gone, elderly struggle with drug costs

 

Illinois Cares Rx program ended just weeks after Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation axing it in an effort to save $72 million and help fill a $2.7 billion hole in the Illinois Medicaid budget – giving seniors and the disabled, who also qualified for the program, little time to plan.

At the time, some agencies advised worried seniors to get a 90-day supply of their prescription drugs.

Now they’re bracing for another surge of calls when seniors need medication refills they can no longer afford.

. About 168,000 seniors and disabled people were enrolled in the program when it ended. Of those, about 143,000 are 65 and older and about 25,000 are disabled people younger than 65.

They include individuals who make less than $22,340 a year and couples who make less than $30,260 a year.

Because the program had no restrictions on assets, people could have large bank accounts and still be eligible.

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