Year-End Blooper Reel

Note to Ops: Being omniscient is a mixed blessing. You remember with crystal clarity all of your mistakes.

These are your LakeCountyEye's 10 boo-boos from 2022:

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Missing bison resurfaces in Hawthorn Woods: owners warn public not to go out without shoes

What the news media reported:

Missing bison resurfaces in Hawthorn Woods: owners warn public not to track, chase

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Canadian National plan to reduce train delays in Lake County plus $5.00 gets you a cup of coffee

What the news media reported:

Canadian National plan to reduce train delays in Lake County gets support from board

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

The Lake Villa GOP was supposed to raffle off five guns, including an AR-15 rifle. But an accidental shooting in a foot led to the event’s postponement.

What the news media reported:

The Lake Villa GOP was supposed to raffle off five guns, including an AR-15 rifle. But mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde led to the event’s postponement.

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Long Grove’s historic covered bridge has not been hit since 2020. ‘I cannot believe that people still avoid crossing that bridge.’

What the news media reported:

Long Grove’s historic covered bridge has now been hit 35 times since 2020. 'I cannot believe that people still attempt to cross that bridge.'

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Amen Bro! Mark Curran on Trump, election fraud and J6

What the news media reported:

Oppo dump! Mark Curran on Trump, "election fraud" and J6

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Lake County Board member does not call League of Women Voters' members 'hags'

What the news media reported:

Lake County Board member to apologize for calling League of Women Voters' members 'hags'

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Senate GOP Leader McConchie confident he will win re-election in a landslide

What the news media reported:

Senate GOP Leader McConchie decries "rigged system"

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Another in the many Uihlein grand slams

What the news media reported:

Another in the many Uihlein losses

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

As if someone gave a rat's ass, petition filing for school board and most municipal races begins Monday

What the news media reported:

Petition filing for school board and most municipal races begins Monday

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Route 53 task force asks "Is this still a thing?"

What the news media reported:

Route 53 task force gives green light to greenway as IDOT demurs

What your LakeCountyEye predicted:

Predicted Republican 'red wave' creates a Tidy-Bowl maelstrom in Lake County

What the news media reported:

Top Stories of 2022: Predicted Republican 'red wave' creates barely a ripple in Lake County

Eleven, but who's counting?

Take the Holiday Challenge

That one special day of the year that everyone is waiting for has nearly arrived. After months of painstaking preparations, holiday merrymakers everywhere are ready to celebrate boxing day -- when you can return all of the stupid stuff that Santa left under the tree for something good.

HaHa, j/k.

Of course, your LakeCountyEye is not referring to boxing day. No, your LakeCountyEye obviously refers to the final day for objections to be filed against candidates for 2023 election.

Normally that day would fall on Dec 26, erm, boxing day.

But since everyone was extra good this year, the deadline has been extended to Dec 28 for many school board contests:

The deadline to file objections to candidate filings for local school boards and the regional board of schools trustee positions has been extended to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28.
Candidate objection deadline in Lake County extended

A holiday tip from Old St Nick: Take the list and check it twice. Is someone on that list naughty?  Then by all means, load up your sleigh and fly that ballot objection straight down the chimney.  Ho Ho Ho!

Happy Birthday

Join your LakeCountyEye in sending a birthday shoutout to a fellow you may not have met, but whose name everyone in Lake County will recognize.

A political boss by any definition of the word, this go-getter rose to the highest echelons of his Party -- only to preside over the decay of that same once all-powerful Party and its eventual sad demise.

Your LakeCountyEye of course refers to General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev. (Dec 19 1906 – Nov 10 1982)

Fun fact: Brezhnev liked to drive fast sports cars, often to the disregard for public safety.

If Brezhnev were alive today he would be 116 years young.

Happy Birthday Leonid!

Watertowery McWatertowerface

Truth, they say, is stranger than the Lake County Gazette:

Name ideas are being accepted through Friday for a new water tower to be built by Lake County's public works department at 18534 W. Old Gages Lake Road near Grayslake.
Help name Lake County's new water tower

Your LakeCountyEye votes for:

God's Golf Ball

That's all your LakeCountyEye has. Drink a cup of kindness.

Trigger Warning

An actual unretouched screencap of a drawing executed by the Chicago Tribune Creepy Cartoonist™ ...

The latest from editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis

What could that possibly be? No one knows.

One thing is known: The Tribune's Creepy Cartoonist™ -- aka the Hieronymus Bosch vis-à-vis the Land of Lincoln -- excels at putting nightmare images down on paper:

A seasonal note: Your LakeCountyEye will be in trauma therapy over the balance of the year.

M4Lware

Your pop quiz today is an analogy question taken from an SAT exam:

Q) GRINCH : CHRISTMAS ::

A) Moms for Liberty : Your Local Public School
B)
C)
D)

The correct answer is (A).

HaHa, Moms for Liberty is a fake grassroots organization that is funded with MAGA dark-money and operates out of Florida. Their mission is to infiltrate your community and blow up your public schools:

The Right-Wing Mothers Fuelling the School-Board Wars

They operate by establishing a beachhead in your community with a local chapter:

School board elections are next year and the petition period is now. Moms for Liberty could be in your community at this very moment, plotting to take over your school board -- and you wouldn't know it before it was too late.

TICK ...

TICK ...

TICK ...

TICK ...

BOOM.

It's All About the Cheddar

The Lake County election has been certified, and the numbers are clear: more people have crashed into the Long Grove bridge than voted for the Republican Party:

In Lake County, Democrats won every competitive countywide race and secured 14 of the 19 county board seats up for election.
In the suburban counties, the blue wave spread further

What up with that GOP -- the Party that once owned Lake County's political terrain? A few Party officials blame Darren Bailey. They say the voters were not ready for some farmer riding in on his turnip truck from McHenry Clay County.

But the Republican Party produced some high-quality candidates who lost as well. Like Congressional Candidate Kash Jackson Max Rice -- he reaped a mere 28% of the vote, which is not significantly better than the rounding error. And Supreme Court candidate Mark Curran who, despite being Lake County favorite son Mark Curran, couldn't top 39% in Lake County.

If anyone is to blame that would be Lake County moneybags Richard Uihlein. Whilst being from Lake County and whilst riding in on the moneybags truck, Uihlein chose to send his campaign donations elsewhere:

The Uihleins live in Illinois and have focused much of their giving in Wisconsin.
Inside the Billionaire-Backed 'Hub for Election Denial'

One knowledgeable political scientist offered a theory to explain it all: "It's nothing personal. Only business."