The New Chicago Park Board and New Chicago Town Council meetings will be live streamed every month. This started officially with the February meetings. The meetings will be streamed to YouTube each month and stored there for later viewing. You can find these streams on the Town of New Chicago YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@TownOfNewChicago and view at any time. If you have a YouTube account, be sure to hit Subscribe on the page and then hit it again and select all so that you should get a notification 30 minutes prior to the stream starting and also when the stream starts.

Please note: The only meeting that is required to be streamed is the Town Council meeting. Also, comments that come in during the stream are not required to be read. Someone will try to monitor the stream for comments that come in stating that there is no audio so that issues can be fixed, but that will be the extent of it. If you would like to make a comment that is officially part of the record, please come in person to any of the town meetings.

As a reminder, the schedule of meetings for the town are as follows:

• Police Commission – 1st Monday of the month at 6pm
• Parks Board – 1st Tuesday of the month at 6pm
• Planning Commission – 2nd Wednesday of the month at 5pm
  • These meetings only take place when needed and may not happen every month.
• Town Council – 2nd Wednesday of the month at 6pm.

Meetings are subject to change due to availability to the various board/council members as an official meeting can only be held when a quorum is present and may also change due to holidays or in the case of the Parks Board, election days. If there is a change to the schedule of a meeting that was not already advertised at the beginning of the year in the local newspapers, a sign will be posted at the temporary town hall/water department, a reach alert will be sent out (sign up for Reach Alert for free at https://app.reachalert.com/network-select) and we will do our best to make a post here and also on the various Facebook pages. By state law, the only two required postings of a change of meeting are at the meeting location and to be advertised in the classified section of the newspaper.

All garbage pickup will be from the roadway on Friday, February 14th, 2025. No garbage will be picked up in the alley due to the snow fall on February 12th, 2025. Please contact the town hall or Total Disposal with any questions.

This notice is to inform the public that the Planning Commission and Town Council Meetings for February 12th, 2025 have been rescheduled to February 19th, 2025 due to the inclement weather forecasted for February 12th, 2025. Both meetings will be held at their regular times (Planning Commission at 5:00pm and Town Council at 6:00pm) on February 19th, 2025.

Please contact the town hall or your ward representative with any questions. Contact information can be found on the Contact Page of the website. The previously setup live stream for tonight’s town council meeting has also been rescheduled to reflect the new day.

Notices have also been placed at the town hall and sent to the newspaper for official reporting per state laws.

Thank you.

A boil order for all of Viking Village and part of North Lake Park is in effect for at least the next 48 hours due to the earlier main break.

Customers of the New Chicago Water System,

New Chicago has contracted with Abonmarche Consultants, LLC, to assist with our water service line inventory program. Authorized door-knockers will begin visiting residences and businesses throughout New Chicago to perform short assessments. Work will begin in October and is expected to continue for a few days.

If customers would prefer NOT to have an unexpected visit from a door knocker, they may inspect their service line material using the simple online survey at the link below.

Water Service Line Material Survey

Please note that this is the service line coming from the meter to the inside of your home. This service line is what would have been installed by the person who built the home originally or what the person had installed at the time of the water meter pit installation. The water main lines that feed the water to the meter before entering your home are all lead free.

The images below are for your reference. These employees will be going around door to door for those who have not completed the survey or do not feel comfortable with completing the survey on their own. It is vital that we complete this survey as it has been mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

SUPE: Substance Use Prevention Education is a non-profit organization providing education and resources to prevent substance use. They have created some great resources, available in both English & Spanish, to help educate parents and guardians about Fentanyl.

• Parent’s Guide to Fentanyl
  • This comprehensive guide equips parents with valuable information, including tips, warning signs, and helpful videos/articles. Ite empowers parents to protect their children from the dangers of fentanyl and make informed decisions regarding substance use.
• Protecting Children From Online Drug Dealers
  • This resource provides essential tools to safeguard children, including the “Emoji code” to identify online drug dealing, insights into the dark web, and other online safety measures.

As required per State and Federal requirements, the Town Water Department must complete a material inventory of all water service lines in the Town by October 2024.

You can find the map of the water service line inventory using the link below:

https://lead-service-line-inventory-newchicagoin.hub.arcgis.com

The pet clinic originally scheduled for 4/27/2024 at the New Chicago Town Hall has been canceled due to lack of an available veterinarian. Once we have a new date, we will let everyone know.

Total Disposal will be picking up both garbage and recycling from the street on January 19th, 2024. No alley pickup will take place due to the weather that is expected. Please contact the town hall with any questions at 219-962-1157.