What Jacky Grimshaw noted locally about Kendall County is a reality in other areas too - the further you are from good mass transit the more costly the commute - which, according to NPR is where in some locales you will find housing discounted and not selling. In Kendall County it seems sales and […]
Jacky Grimshaw, VP for Policy, Transportation and Community Development at Center for Neighborhood Technology, wrote an important Letter to the Editor in Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune:
“With a reported median selling price of $227,000, homebuyers feel they can get the most home for their money in Kendall County (”Kendall nation’s fastest-growing county; Locals proud despite area’s growing […]
Progress Illinois has a great discussion of DuPage urbanization based on this Boston Review article. I have some mixed thoughts about what’s there - but they’re certainly worth reading.
A report from the State House:
The Franks-Froehlich Bill (HB4717), requiring collar county boards vote to receive the quarter point sales tax increase that passed with the recent Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) Act, was dealt a major setback today in the House Mass Transit Committee. Collar counties normally supporting local control appear not to want […]
DuPage State Representative Paul Froehlich is a chief co-sponsor of HB4717, a bill that amends the recently passed Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) Act, forcing the DuPage County Board and other collar county boards to “consent to the imposition of” the new quarter cent sales tax increase that they may use for mass transit or public […]
Both the Illinois House and Senate passed the half-billion dollar state transit funding bill today averting a mass transit crisis by days. The bill of necessity included Governor Rod Blagojevich’s last minute amendatory veto demand that seniors 65 and older ride mass transit free. As reported in Capitol Fax, the General Assembly is […]
Democratic State Representative Paul Froehlich (56th District) reports that at today’s Mass Transit Committee meeting the majority (a 16-5 margin) “held our noses” and accepted Governor Rod Blagojevich’s amendatory veto. The amendatory veto, without prior discussion with legislators, requires free rides for senior citizens on mass transit as the price for passage of the […]
DuPage has a public safety sales tax referendum on the ballot February 5th. It proposes a quarter of one cent sales tax increase to fund public safety staff and programs that are otherwise slated to be cut in the current DuPage County budget. Today’s transportation bill is a game changer if it’s passed […]
The Illinois House and Senate passed a transportation bill today that will increase mass transit funding and provide it with more stable revenue, according to the Chicago Tribune (hat tip Capitol Fax). The new revenue comes from an increase in the sales tax (a quarter point in Cook County and half a point in […]
I take no pleasure in the DuPage County Budget mess - it hurts real people through no fault of their own through cuts in critical programs and services, and job losses. But in thinking about it a bit last night, and about how angry DuPage State’s Attorney Joe Birkett has been about the budget […]
