We have a third entrant into the 2025 Naperville City Council race, Naperville Public Library Board President, Ashfaq Syed. Syed will make his second attempt at the dais after…
One by one, longtime Naperville stakeholder groups and civic organizations continue to fall by the wayside. The latest being the Naperville Area Homeowners Confederation (NAHC). NAHC for decades did an…
After a couple year hiatus, we finally have a Naperville official sticking their neck out to try and move 5th Avenue along. At the last council meeting, McBroom received council…
You can just hear it. A freshly unmasked City Manager Doug Krieger bellowing “we would’ve gotten away with it too if it weren’t for that meddling Watchdog!” as he is…
Our second Naperville city council campaign kickoff is in the books as Jennifer Taylor held what appeared to be a very successful campaign launch last night at Quigleys in Naperville.…
The organizers of Salute gave Naperville a nice Fourth of July weekend of music and entertainment. The Watchdog was there most of the weekend and was impressed. Salute does not…
Yesterday the City of Naperville held its annual Fourth of July ceremonial events in Naperville’s Brookdale neighborhood and neighborhood marches in Will County. Noticeably absent from these important community events…
The court mess that Naperville needlessly wandered into when it passed a local ordinance banning the local sale of “assault weapons” isn’t going to end soon. Once it is finally…
There is often a disconnect between what officials view as their community’s number one issue and what residents view as their number one issues. Officials think it’s taxes, or crime,…
Last week, many Naperville residents received political polling phone calls and texts on matters relating to the next April local election. This is somewhat remarkable given that the election is…
Jennifer Taylor announced on social media that she will seek re-election to City Council…bringing the known field of council candidates to two. Bansal’s campaign kicked off tonight with an event…
Residents continue to come to City Hall and demand a Ceasefire in Gaza resolution be passed by Naperville. This has been going on for months now - and to the…
In the home stretch of the last municipal election news broke that both Councilman White and Councilman Holzhauer had filed paperwork that exempted their homes from real estate taxes. The…
PSA: The Watchdog blocks fake profiles or what appear to be fake names. We make some exceptions for those who make substantive comments through such accounts. Generally speaking, anonymous trolls…
The radically far Left activist group named the Southern Poverty Law Center just published a list of nearly 1,000 groups it self-defines as “hate groups”. It included the Naperville-based Awake…