"Any suburban legislator that votes to consolidate the transit boards ... will be voting against the interest of the residents that they have been elected to represent," write McHenry County Board Chairman Michael Buehler and county council of governments President Rick Mack.




Since the dawn of time, it seems, parents and grandparents have been regularly socking away spare money for their grandchildren to help with the cost of a college education.




Here is the original transcript of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.