Most of Lake County’s largest communities are shrinking

By Austin Berg

07/09/2018

Many communities in the northern Illinois border county are having trouble attracting and retaining residents.

TAGS: Buffalo Grove, Gurnee, Highland Park, Lake County, Mundelein, North Chicago, outmigration, population, Round Lake Beach, Vernon Hills, Waukegan, Wheeling, Winthrop Harbor

Wheeling approves $7M handout to developer

03/09/2018

Despite residents seeing some of the highest property tax bills in the state, the Wheeling Board of Trustees approved a preliminary agreement giving a developer nearly $7 million to build apartments and retail space in the village.

TAGS: property taxes, TIF: Tax Increment Financing, Wheeling

Wheeling to use $1 million in TIF funds to build bridge to nowhere

By Amy Korte

10/05/2017

Wheeling village trustees have voted for a plan to use tax increment financing to build a bridge to a vacant piece of land.

TAGS: TIF: Tax Increment Financing, Wheeling

FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

Illinois students could soon benefit from scholarship money to help them find a tutor, attend ACT or SAT prep sessions, pay tuition, get special education services or assist with other academic needs. That will happen in Illinois only if Gov. J.B. Pritzker lets the state’s schoolchildren benefit from the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program, established...

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Most of Lake County’s largest communities are shrinking

Wheeling approves $7M handout to developer

Wheeling to use $1 million in TIF funds to build bridge to nowhere

FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

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