Tazewell County Board

Thirty-year-old chairs in the James Carius Community Room at the Tazewell County Justice Center will be replaced. The county board, which meets in the room, approved the purchase of 91 new chairs.

After a vigorous debate Wednesday, Watts Copy Systems of Springfield won out over NCI Business Systems of Morton for a five-year contract to supply and service Tazewell County's 56 copiers.

Animals and humans alike will benefit from a new Tazewell County Animal Control facility that has opened on the county's Tremont campus. The old facility, built in the 1990s, was described as a "dungeon."

The Tazewell County Board voted Wednesday to freeze County Clerk John Ackerman's salary at $101,069 for the next four years, rejecting a 3% annual raise in a meeting that became a prolonged public airing of grievances.

The board on Wednesday approved a zoning code amendment that prohibits "any use of land which is not explicitly allowed under the code or as adopted by supplemental ordinance."

A monument and a new flag pole will soon grace the grounds of the Tazewell County Courthouse. The monument honors the county's Medal of Honor recipients: John Ayers, Thomas Murphy and William Reed.

Thirteen open seats on the 21-member Tazewell County Board need to be filled this year. Candidates running for 11 of those seats cleared the first hurdle when they won races in the Republican primary.

The Tazewell County clerk’s office is making it easier to find information in certain historical documents by using artificial intelligence.

A year of transition for the Tazewell County Board has become a bit more unsettled. Aaron Phillips, who was appointed to the board last year, resigned last month.

Tazewell County Board members were told Wednesday that Pekin has the sole authority to make decisions about a proposed data center in the city.