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The Will County Forest District Board voted 16-2 to approve the $50 million bond sale, with two Republican board members casting no votes.

Each of the Each of the 22 Will County Board members makes $23,000 a year. The last time the board approved a salary increase was Nov. 17, 2005.

When my husband and I married last summer, we started the day with a game of tennis. After our wedding lunch, a spontaneous football game occurred on the lawn; the youngest player was five years old, the oldest, 72. I can’t even kick a football, but changed back into my tennis shoes regardless.

Annette Parker of Crest Hill has taken over as president of Board of Commissioners for the Forest Preserve District of Will County.

A Naperville Democrat who serves on the Will County Board is denouncing a social media post promoting an "All Republicans are Racist" fundraiser, saying the post and the account it came from are fake.

Some in US Not Ready to Give Up Face Masks 4 hours ago Two women -- one with a mask, one without -- walk along Roosevelt Avenue in the Queens borough of New York, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:08:11 0:00 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. More than 120 million Americans are now vaccinated against the new coronavirus. Local officials across the United States are easing social distancing. And ...

Based on the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a growing number of stores, churches and other businesses are welcoming uncovered faces.

  Perspective by Dan O’Donnell When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last week that fully vaccinated people no longer needed to wear masks in nearly all situations, one would have expected this to be met with universal celebration. It wasn’t.  A sizeable number of people have seemed hesitant, unwilling even, to take off their masks.  Many of them, reported the Associated Press, are frightened of “breakthrough infections” of COVID-19 that have occurred in...

Like more than 120 million other Americans, Jan Massie is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can pretty much give up wearing a mask under the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But shes still covering her face, even as the temperature rises in her native Alabama, because of benefits she says are too great to give up. The retired educator didnt catch the illness caused by the new coronavirus, and she also didnt get the flu or her twice-yearly colds while mask...

Some aren’t ready to quit wearing masks despite new CDC guidance Jay Reeves View Comments Like more than 120 million other Americans, Jan Massie is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can pretty much give up wearing a mask under the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But she’s still covering her face, even as the temperature rises in her native Alabama, because of benefits she says are too great to give up. The retired educator didn’t catch the illness ...