Over the last year, the City Council pushed Decatur’s boundaries outward, annexing hundreds of properties despite vehement objections from new residents whose spacious houses and half-acre lots contrast sharply with the smaller, aging homes in neighborhoods closer to downtown.
Just read in the Rockford Register Star that with a stroke of a pen Rockford added 2,400 residents. The city annexed 2 large apartment complexes with 1,200 apartments away from Cherry Valley requested by the owners who are based out of Michigan. Now Rockford has to provide police/ fire and ambulance. They will also collect much more in tax’s and the increase of residents means they will be counted in the new census which means more money from the state This in general is low income housing and a high crime complex according to many. Many shootings in the news… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Just read in the Rockford Register Star that with a stroke of a pen Rockford added 2,400 residents. The city annexed 2 large apartment complexes with 1,200 apartments away from Cherry Valley requested by the owners who are based out of Michigan. Now Rockford has to provide police/ fire and ambulance. They will also collect much more in tax’s and the increase of residents means they will be counted in the new census which means more money from the state This in general is low income housing and a high crime complex according to many. Many shootings in the news… Read more »