The Public Investigator

NEWS ALERT: The Lake County Health Department expects to continue to receive more allocations of H1N1 vaccine in the coming weeks. Future clinic dates, times and locations will be posted on the Lake County Health Department’s H1N1 web page as soon as they are scheduled. The bilingual flu hotline (847.377.8350) will also have continual updates.

In addition to the Health Department clinics, vaccinations will be available from many community health care providers, pharmacies and clinics. The Illinois Department of Public Health also has a list of public sites in Lake County that will offer the H1N1 vaccine this season. 

Why this news is important to you: This is quite literally a matter of life and death. Timely distribution of the H1N1 flu vaccination to priority at-risk groups will save lives. Long vaccine shortages and distribution failures can cause death.

Subscribers can read The Public Investigator’s news report on why only a fraction of Lake County’s at-risk residents have received the H1N1 flu vaccine and where the next public clinic will be located.

NEWS ALERT: Preliminary construction work has begun on Sheridan Road in preparation of an active Illinois Department of Transportation construction project to get under way next spring.

Why this news is important to you: Sheridan Road is the primary arterial of economic development in northeastern Lake County, along with the easternmost thoroughfare of vehicle transportation along the North Shore.

Subscribers can read The Public Investigator’s news report to find out what communities will be affected when a 6.52-mile segment of Sheridan Road gets resurfaced during the first half of 2010.

Under the light: Individual contributions to the campaign fund of Lake County Board member Pat Carey of Grayslake

Why this news is important to you: Politicians might deny it, but money buys influence in privately-funded elections. To cast informed votes for public servants, taxpayers need to know what special interests and corporations are bankrolling the campaigns of candidates for public office.

Subscribers can access this Power Source Report to get a list of individual contributors to Pat Carey’s campaign fund.

Back in the day, when the press actually did what it’s supposed to do in monitoring government of the people, media outlets used to do these things called “follow-ups,” or “updates,” which kept the citizenry informed of developing local news they needed to know and was relevant to their lives. In fact most media report little real news in depth anymore, including most newspapers.

But for now, residents of Lake County can still find real news and follow-ups here at this site. In an update of the “Fighting the Powers” series, subscribers can find out how the Powers That Be have responded to The Public Investigator’s series in court and what evidence has been disclosed that discredits a bogus felony charge made against North Chicago police officer Carl Sain.

One of the county’s top police officers is fighting for his professional life as a result of a personal incident involving the Waukegan chief of police and a subsequent biased investigation and prosecution by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office. The officer’s statement has not been taken by the prosecution; nor has any media reported his side of the story — until here and now. Read the first part of FIGHTING THE POWERS.

One of the county’s top police officers is fighting for his professional life as a result of a personal incident involving the Waukegan chief of police and a subsequent biased investigation and prosecution by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office. The officer’s statement has not been taken by the prosecution; nor has any media reported his side of the story — until here and now. Read the second part of FIGHTING THE POWERS.

One of the county’s top police officers is fighting for his professional life as a result of a personal incident involving the Waukegan chief of police and a subsequent biased investigation and prosecution by the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office. The officer’s statement has not been taken by the prosecution; nor has any media reported his side of the story — until here and now. Read the third part of FIGHTING THE POWERS.