Monday’s vote to eliminate pensions for part-time elected officials in Orland Park intensified a simmering feud between reformist Mayor Keith Pekau and some old-time board members, most notably Trustee Jim Dodge.

Bloom Township High School District 206 hired a principal placed in “do not hire” status by her old employer, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the Chicago Heights Patch reports.

Planned Parenthood’s recent shots at a new pregnancy counseling center, Aid for Women, in Flossmoor shows “how radical” the abortion provider has become, former State Rep. Peter Breen (R-Lombard), one of Illinois’ leading pro-life advocates, told South Cook News.

On her monthly bill at the private Crystal Tree Country Club in Orland Park, former Cook County Commissioner Elizabeth Gorman is $873.48 past due.

A candidate for village trustee, Kelly O’Brien, is running on a ticket with two other trustee candidates close to the former mayor, and she is almost certainly in violation of the residency requirement of the state’s election code.

On Sunday, Feb. 24 in Flossmoor “a unique and inspiring display of unity” occurred around the ribbon-cutting ceremony of a pro-life support center for pregnant women.

Illinois pro-life leaders spoke in Flossmoor yesterday at the ribbon cutting and open house of an Aid for Women pregnancy center located on Governors Highway next door to a Planned Parenthood (PP) abortion clinic that opened in January 2018.

What organizers are calling a “life-affirming alternative” to the Planned Parenthood clinic in Flossmoor that offers abortions is on schedule to open later this month

Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau was the lone dissenter on a 6-1 vote by the village board to extend manager Joe LaMargo’s three-year contract for a year and increase his severance from six months to nine.

A proposed change in the bylaws of the Cook County Republican Party that would have allowed Democrats to serve as Republican ward committeemen fizzled at a meeting of party officials July 25 and county Republicans lacked a quorum necessary for a vote after nearly 30 committeemen boycotted the meeting.

Cook County Commissioner Sean Morrison (R-17th) demonstrated such poor judgment in requesting a judge allow an employee of his security firm, awaiting trial for the indecent solicitation of a child, to travel out of state that he should resign his Republican leadership posts, State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) told South Cook News.

"I bought a house in South Holland eight years ago for $250,000. The value went down to $137,000 but I still had to pay over $7,000 a year in property taxes. I had to put it up at a sheriff’s sale.”

The latest move by the Orland Park board still smarting over Keith Pekau defeating long-time Mayor Dan McLaughlin last April fizzled out at the May 7 board meeting.

The Flossmoor Planned Parenthood avoided public scrutiny in its planning stages, but the clinic is getting its share of attention now -- with State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) recently holding a press conference at the clinic and the launching of a pro-life group in response to its opening in January.

Republicans from at least one township in Cook County said that Tuesday's endorsement of Gov. Bruce Rauner was the outcome of a rigged process and not a reflection of grass-roots support within the party.

The mayor of Flossmoor told South Cook News that he and other village officials discovered only a few weeks ago that the health care center that opened on Jan. 16 at 1985 Governors Highway was going to be a Planned Parenthood clinic, one where abortions will be performed.

Planned Parenthood 'cashing in' on taxpayer-funded abortion law with new Flossmoor clinic and others