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Meeting Summary and Briefs: Will County Board Executive Committee for June 11, 2026
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | June 11, 2026 The Will County Board Executive Committee met Thursday, June 11, 2026, in Joliet, advancing a slate of items to the full County Board after a meeting that ran more than three hours. The committee’s marquee action was recommending creation of a Will County Land Bank…
Read MoreWill County Mental Health Board Touts Crisis Program in Quarterly Report
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | June 11, 2026 Article Summary: The Will County Community Mental Health Board’s quarterly report to the Executive Committee on Thursday, June 11, 2026, highlighted a new countywide counseling and crisis-referral program and a roughly $5 million grant cycle serving tens of thousands of residents. Mental Health Board Key…
Read MoreWill County Coroner Reports Nearly 8,000 Death Investigations in 2025
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | June 11, 2026 Article Summary: Will County Coroner Laurie Summers presented her 2025 annual report to the Executive Committee on Thursday, June 11, 2026, detailing 7,992 death investigations and cost-saving review practices, before a procedural disagreement over whether the report should go to the full County Board. Coroner’s…
Read MoreWill County Committee Advances Three New Assistant State’s Attorneys
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | June 11, 2026 Article Summary: The Will County Board Executive Committee on Thursday, June 11, 2026, recommended increasing the authorized number of assistant state’s attorneys from 90 to 93, sending the measure to the full County Board over one dissenting vote amid a debate about rising felony caseloads.…
Read MoreWill County Committee Pulls Single-Member District Referendum
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | June 11, 2026 Article Summary: The Will County Board Executive Committee on Thursday, June 11, 2026, removed a proposed referendum on single-member county board districts after learning the question would have to be binding rather than advisory. Single-Member Districts Key Points: The committee voted to remove Resolution 26-4989,…
Read MoreWill County Land Bank Clears Committee With Two Amendments
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | June 11, 2026 Article Summary: The Will County Board Executive Committee on Thursday, June 11, 2026, recommended creating a Will County Land Bank Authority — a tool to return blighted, tax-delinquent properties to productive use — after adopting two amendments and forwarding the measure to the full County…
Read MoreMeeting Summary and Briefs: Will County Board Executive Committee for May 14, 2026
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | May 14, 2026 The Will County Board Executive Committee held a four-hour-plus meeting on May 14, 2026, dominated by a deeply contested vote on the 6,099-acre Pride of the Prairie commercial solar project in Manhattan, Green Garden and Wilton townships, which the committee recommended for approval to the…
Read MoreWill County Executive Committee Splits on Whether to Ask Voters About Single-Member Districts
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | May 14, 2026 Article Summary: The Will County Board Executive Committee on Thursday, May 14, 2026, took the temperature of members on a proposal to place an advisory referendum on the November 2026 ballot asking voters whether they want to move from 11 two-member districts to single-member districts,…
Read MoreWill County Executive Committee Backs Funding Pursuit for $2.33 Million Harris Drive Property Buyouts
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | May 14, 2026 Article Summary: The Will County Board Executive Committee on Thursday, May 14, 2026, agreed to pursue state and federal grant funding for a recommended property-buyout plan to address chronic flooding and septic backups along Harris Drive in unincorporated Plainfield Township, where Baxter & Woodman engineers…
Read MoreWill County Hears Proposal to Establish County-Focused Land Bank for Distressed Properties
Will County Board Executive Committee Meeting | May 14, 2026 Article Summary: The Will County Board Executive Committee on Thursday, May 14, 2026, heard an introductory presentation from Will County Center for Economic Development official Doug Pryor on the possibility of establishing a Will County-focused land bank to return tax-delinquent, abandoned and vacant properties to…
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