On May 26, Senate Democrats advanced a Fiscal Year 2025 budget that includes record spending and nearly $1 billion in tax increases. In response to the Senate’s passage of the budget, State Senator Craig Wilcox (R-McHenry), who voted against it, released the following statement:
In McHenry County districts, 113 Am. Indian students were enrolled in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
On May 22, 2024, Matthew Lorr, aged 35 and formerly of Woodstock, Illinois, was sentenced to 35 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections. The sentencing follows a negotiated plea for the offenses of Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child and Criminal Sexual Assault.
On May 22, 2024, the Second District Appellate Court issued a ruling that has sparked considerable debate. The court found that while the defendant posed "a real and present threat to the community," the McHenry County judge erred in concluding that no set of conditions could mitigate that threat.
Floyd T. Cannon has been sentenced to six years in the Department of Corrections for burglary charges related to an incident on October 10, 2016. On that date, officers from the Crystal Lake Police Department were dispatched to an address on Commercial Road in Crystal Lake, Illinois. At the scene, officers discovered that several storage lockers had been broken into and various power tools stolen.
On May 15, hundreds of members from the Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU) utilized a taxpayer-funded day off to travel to the Capitol, demanding an additional $1 billion in state funding for Chicago Public Schools (CPS). This move was met with resistance from Senate Republicans who highlighted the special funding CPS already receives, unavailable to other schools in the state.