New Tribune Format Minimizes Impact of Island Lake Mayor's Arrest

In the old Chicago Tribune, this story would have been on the front of the Metro section.

In the new Chicago Tribune, it is buried inside.

So the impact of the story is less now than it would have been a couple of weeks ago before the Tribune “went Sun-Times” (as in “went ballistic”).

“What's next? What else don't we know?" Laurie Rabattini, who blogs about Island Lake at “What's Happening in Island Lake? is quoted as saying by reporters Courtney Flynn and Susan Kuczka.

That's after reprising the arrest of Vietnam Vet Greg Kachka for wearing a threatening tee shirt and pointing his finger to make a point, plus Bob Wargaski's pig farm to stop a water tower from being erected across the road from his unincorporated property.

Mayor Tom Hyde, who leads the Democrats who control the village board, was arrested for forgery and official misconduct for using Wite-Out on a liquor license so he could change the name of the licensee.

Just before that happened, the Tribune reports,

“...the village clerk filed a lawsuit claiming the village owes her nearly $200,000 in back pay.”

The man Hyde beat for village president almost four years ago, Tom Martin, gets in this delicious quote:

"The Hyde group are like the black cats that came into town to take over."