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The city of Rock Island announced Friday it has selected Galesburg City Manager Todd Thompson to fill the same position in Rock Island.

With COVID-19 positivity rates falling, Buffalo Grove is returning to in-person village board meetings and reopening village facilities, officials announced Monday.

Buffalo Grove requires village employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but village trustees will not yet extend the mandate to themselves or other elected and appointed officials.

Buffalo Grove village board members decided Monday not to extend proof-of-vaccination requirements already in place in Cook County portions of the village to the Lake County areas of town.

Buffalo Grove announced two promotions within its leadership team Monday. Public Works Director Mike Skibbe will become deputy village manager, and Nicole Woods was named community development director.

Buffalo Grove officials are poised to approve a deal to facilitate the redevelopment of the villages Town Center property with a national grocery store chain, retail shops, restaurants, apartments and entertainment venues.

Buffalo Grove officials are poised to approve a deal to facilitate the redevelopment of the villages Town Center property with a national grocery store chain, retail shops, restaurants, apartments and entertainment venues.

Police body cameras could cost Buffalo Grove $300,000, chief says   Buffalo Grove Police Chief Steven Casstevens Paul Valade | Staff Photographer, 2019   Updated 5/4/2021 5:43 PM Buffalo Grove Police Chief Steven Casstevens told the village board Monday that the body camera mandate in the states criminal justice reform bill will cost the village at least $300,000. Among its many provisions, the legislation requires every law enforcement agency in the state to equip its officers ...

Buffalo Grove gears up for summer event adjustments Kids scream with glee on a ride at Buffalo Grove Days. The fate of this years festival is uncertain. Daily Herald file photo/September 2010   Buffalo Grove officials are already planning for summer events. But its looking like Buffalo Grove Days might be drastically scaled down, even dead on arrival.   At Mondays committee of the whole, trustees pondered the options for summer events. The Farmers Market is a shoe-in for this su...

Buffalo Grove negotiating with new vendor after website crash   Updated 2/17/2021 11:49 AM Buffalo Grove is negotiating with a new vendor after its website went missing in action more than a week ago. At Tuesdays village board meeting, Evan Michel, assistant to the village manager, said the site was down from Feb. 4 through Feb. 9, for a total of more than 110 hours.   Michel said the current vendor, Intrado, suffered a catastrophic hardware failure, and the cloud backups were also ...