Michael Lorge News Today

As the Skokie Village Board at its Dec. 18 meeting read through a routine ordinance establishing how much appointed officials should earn, tempers flared over allegations of impropriety leveled by the board’s sole independent trustee, James Johnson. For his part, Johnson said he would walk out in protest if the proposed ordinance passes at the next meeting Johnson said he was concerned that ...

Chicago native Rachel Goldberg, whose son Hersh Goldberg-Polin is held by Hamas, spoke at the rally. ‘We hostage families have lived the last 39 days in slow motion torment.’

Skokie’s mayor and five members of its village board have filed a motion urging the village’s Ethics Commission to fine the sixth village board member, James Johnson, $5,000 for filing a “frivolous” ethics complaint. Johnson said he is being retaliated against and the village is “perpetuating political corruption.” Johnson has filed four ethics complaints since 2021, and the village’s Ethics ...

Skokie village trustees voted July 3 to release some but not all the audio of a pair of private meetings of the Village Board which the Illinois Attorney General recently determined should be made public. The Attorney General’s Public Access Counselor, which enforces rules around citizen access to government meetings and records, ruled in April that the board had inappropriately discussed some ...

In a non-binding decision, the Illinois Attorney General found that the Skokie Village Board violated a law that requires meetings to be held in public view.

The Skokie ethics commission will proceed to a hearing for one of Trustee Jame Johnson's two complaints. Commissioners dismissed the other complaint.

The Mayor of Skokie and a village trustee are accusing one another of violating the Open Meetings Act.

The Village of Skokie told Carvana it must start over to apply to build a glass used-car sales tower, and face stricter rules that call for bird-strike mitigations for buildings.

Carvana is again allowed to operate in Illinois, but under strict conditions. The planned Skokie Carvana however, is stalled until further notice.

Carvana has run into legal and financial roadblocks that cast uncertainty on its plans to build a glass tower used car sales building in Skokie.