Legislation approved by the Illinois General Assembly this week should end the months-long stalemate between the DuPage County clerk and the DuPage County Board over competitive bidding and bill payment procedures. The amendment clarifies language in the existing law regarding when contract bids are required and how payments are to be submitted for payment by […]
CHICAGO — A former DuPage County prosecutor accused of making threats against state lawmakers and the Illinois Attorney General over social media has been charged. 30-year-old Samuel Cundari, who was an Assistant State’s Attorney in DuPage County, has been charged with transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure another person, according to the U.S. […]
A former DuPage County prosecutor was arrested and charged with threatening two Illinois state representatives in a social media post earlier this year, federal prosecutors announced. Authorities also connected Samuel J. Cundari with another social media post imagining someone leaving a bomb at an LGBTQ event in the state capitol. Cundari, 30, of DuPage County, […]
The DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office plans to file a civil lawsuit against DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek and her office over $224,000 in invoices submitted for purchases not properly approved or made without going through a bidding process. Kaczmarek threatened similar action in a May 7 memo to DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy […]
DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. – Twenty-one people have been charged with stealing from businesses in DuPage County since Jan. 1, prosecutors said Tuesday. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin released the most recent incidents this week. They included the following: Jorge Gimenez-Sanchez, 21, of Chicago, is accused of stealing approximately $328 worth of merchandise from the […]
In 1994, the then president of Benedictine University, a private Roman Catholic university in Lisle, Illinois, Dr. William J. Carroll organized the first of what would become a yearly celebration of the life and works of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in DuPage County. The annual breakfast came to an end in 2015 following the […]