Your Weekly Wrap-Up

WineStyles in Lake in the Hills is closing up shop.

The Lake in the Hills business, located at 319 N. Randall Road, is the second along that strip mall to close in recent months. The wine store offers a wide variety of wines, wine accessories, a wine club and held a free wine tasting every Saturday.

Huntley officials hope developers and businesses have the same feeling following the village’s first Route 47 Developer/Broker Forum where staff challenged them to “imagine the possibilities.”

“There are a lot of positive things happening in Huntley,” Village Manager Dave Johnson said.

The rhetoric from all the hospitals embroiled in Centegra Health System’s and Mercy Health System’s battle to build a hospital is confusing, but there’s a key issue that could affect a final decision: how a new hospital would affect services to the uninsured and the poor.

Mayor Suzanne Branding alleged, at Monday night's Village Board meeting, that four trustees have repeatedly violated the Illinois Open Meetings Act.

Trustees Jeff Halen, Rich Sustich, Jonathan Sprawka and Tom Poynton have met outside of village board meetings and discussed village business, according to Branding.

“I am requesting that Trustees Poynton, Sustich, Sprawka and Halen comply with the open meetings act, stop meeting as a group and stop issuing memorandums,” said Branding.

Wednesday night’s school board meeting had just begun when the first bombshell was dropped.

“I would like to know why the district’s business manager David Tylavsky told me last week in private on school grounds that he had been fired and we were just told by Superintendent Correll that he was not here tonight  because he had chest pains,” said board candidate Kip Evans during the public comment portion.

Audible gasps from the audience turned into shock and anger. Board president Mary Garcia then announced that the board was immediately going into closed session with the district’s attorney, Kevin Gordon, to discuss personnel matters.

Fifteen minutes later the board returned, but did not provide any further insight as to Tylavsky's whereabouts.