Charles Selle

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Like sharks shadowing a watery blood trail, they sought prey in neighborhoods across Lake County. These trackers weren’t foraging for fish. Their quarry was wind and hail damage. After the squalls that blew through two weeks ago, leaving behind downed trees from wind damage, power outages in some areas and widespread hard hail, the storm-chasing sales folks were out in force.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Just when Illinoisans thought they were getting a break from paying the highest taxes in the nation, disappointment came calling like a spring thunderstorm. After all, government can giveth and government can taketh away. That’s what’s happened to the grocery tax, which Gov. JB Pritzker touted as a tax break for Illinoisans, especially poor folks, when he signed a bill last year to repeal the state’s 1% levy on groceries. Groceries are taxed at 1.75%, with 1% returned to municipalities.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

There’s an overall consensus that Waukegan Ald. Keith Turner exhibited bad taste last May when he posted a photo of a human body part on social media. But is that crass move worthy of a $500,000 claim against the city? An attorney for the family of the Milwaukee woman whose severed arm was found on the city’s public beach is contending it could be. Turner surely didn’t see a possible lawsuit coming as the family of Sade Robinson seeks closure in her grisly death.

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Charles Selle

Share Many of us can’t wait to get into our gardens, turn over that fine Illinois loam and plant. For a little sweat equity, we should have a wealth of vegetables in a few months.Apparently, I’m not the only one raring to go since warm weather rolled in, getting those planting juices flowing.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Many of us can’t wait to get into our gardens, turn over that fine Illinois loam and plant. For a little sweat equity, we should have a wealth of vegetables in a few months. Apparently, I’m not the only one raring to go since warm weather rolled in, getting those planting juices flowing. A reported 1,000 visitors from across Lake and Cook counties were at the Spring Plant Sale and Farm Festival at Liberty Prairie in Grayslake earlier this month.