A living, cited, forkable model of the rules and money that touch a home in Pingree Grove. Built for the people who live here first, and for the staff and officials who run it. Every study leaves a public dataset behind.
Updated 2026-09-26Next review 2026-12CC BY 4.0
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study threads
The whole point, in one glance
Every layer that touches a home here
A single lot in Pingree Grove sits under six layers of authority at once. This series maps them, publishes the map, and then follows the money and the decisions that flow through them. Read it on the flat page below, walk it in the Grove sim, or fork the raw data.
The series
Four threads, one village
01
Released
The rulebook, as open data
The full Rules Stack corpus, the stacked regimes and every cited rule that governs a home here, published as a versioned, hashed, CSV and JSON download. A v1 curated slice, not an exhaustive codification.
Why it is useful. A resident can see every layer that governs their lot in one file. Staff and officials get a machine-readable map of their own authority stack. Anyone can fork it.
The property-tax bill split across the nine taxing bodies that share it. Per-district rates are the Kane County Clerk 2024 rate listing; the set of bodies is the Village's own tax explainer. School District 300 takes about 72 percent; the Village itself under 3 percent.
Why it is useful. The single most-asked resident question, answered with cited figures a resident can re-derive. Officials get a clean levy-share benchmark, and the whole thing downloads as CSV and JSON.
A structured, cited log of the ordinances and resolutions the Village Board adopts: what changed, when, the roll-call vote, and a link to the minutes. A v0.1.0 curated seed from published minutes, grown by the standing monthly FOIA request.
Why it is useful. What did they decide about X, without reading every packet. Staff get a clean adopted-actions index, downloadable as CSV and JSON.
What the Planning and Zoning Commission is actually considering: text amendments, rezonings, special use permits, and plats, transcribed from the Village's own public meeting packets. A v0.1.0 curated seed, not a permit-issuance count, grown by new packets as they post rather than a FOIA response.
Why it is useful. What is being proposed near me, and what P&Z recommended to the Village Board. Staff and officials get a clean case log they can point residents to instead of a packet PDF.
The full Rules Stack corpus, published as a versioned, hashed download. Every rule keeps its citation and a link to the source of record. This is a v1 curated slice, not an exhaustive codification of village law, and it grows as the corpus does.
Verify this release, in your browser
jurisdictions (20)
The stacked rule-regimes: village, county, township, fire and library districts, the SSAs, the HOA federation, and state and federal.
Lawrence, J. (2026). Pingree Grove Studies: the rulebook, as open data (v0.1.0). jakelawrence.xyz/research/pingree-grove.
Thread 02, released
Where your tax dollar goes
The most-asked question about a property-tax bill, answered with cited figures. On a representative Pingree Grove home, nine taxing bodies share the bill. For every $1,000 you pay, about $718.01 funds School District 300 and about $28.76 the Village itself.
Tax year 2024 (payable 2025). A representative owner-occupied Pingree Grove parcel in Rutland Township, not in a Cambridge Lakes Special Service Area. Shares are each body's rate over the composite rate, so they hold regardless of a home's value.
School District 30071.8%/ $718.01 per $1,000
Public K-12 schools for Pingree Grove and the wider Dundee-Carpentersville area. By far the largest line on the bill.
Fire District9.94%/ $99.36 per $1,000
Fire suppression, rescue, and emergency medical response for the village and surrounding area.
Elgin Community College5.92%/ $59.18 per $1,000
The regional public community college (ECC), District 509.
Kane County4.4%/ $44.04 per $1,000
County government: courts, sheriff, recorder, assessor, health, and county roads.
Village of Pingree Grove2.88%/ $28.76 per $1,000
The village itself: local roads, police services, code enforcement, administration. Under 3% of the bill.
Forest Preserve2.25%/ $22.46 per $1,000
County forest preserves and open space.
Ella Johnson Library1.64%/ $16.38 per $1,000
The public library district serving the area (Hampshire).
Township Road District0.74%/ $7.35 per $1,000
Maintenance of township roads outside village and county jurisdiction.
Rutland Township0.44%/ $4.44 per $1,000
Township government: general assistance, assessment, and township services.
Cambridge Lakes parcels also carry a Special Service Area (SBA) line, which the Village explainer describes separately. It is excluded from this representative composite.
Thread 03, released
The board's decisions
What the Village Board actually decided, from the Village's own published minutes: the ordinances and resolutions it adopted, when, the roll-call vote, and a link to the source. A v0.1.0 curated seed from the minutes processed so far, not exhaustive. The standing FOIA request below is what grows it.
Authorizing the release or retention of certain Executive Session minutes and the destruction of verbatim recordings, as permitted under the Open Meetings Act
agreementadoptedvote 5-0-1
Independent contractor agreement with Joyce Nardulli for lobbying services
ordinanceadopted2-3-1vote 5-0-1
Amending Title 2 (Boards, Commissions and Committees), Chapter 3 Community Events Committee, Sections 2-3-1 through 2-3-8
ordinancediscussion
Implementing snow-removal requirements for homeowners associations (discussion only, not adopted)
Completeness comes from the standing monthly records request for all adopted ordinances and resolutions, published in the FOIA log on this page.
Thread 04, released
Development pulse
What is actually being proposed near you, from the Village's own Planning and Zoning Commission packets: text amendments, rezonings, special use permits, and plats, what the Commission recommended to the Village Board, and when a public hearing is still open. A v0.1.0 curated seed from the packets processed so far, not exhaustive.
Every case is transcribed from the Village's own published Planning and Zoning Commission meeting packets, the primary record, not a permit database or a FOIA response. This tracks what P&Z considers and recommends to the Village Board: text amendments, rezonings, special use permits, and plats. It does not claim a permit-issuance count; that would need the building department's own records.
Not a permit-issuance count. A standing FOIA request for building-permit records (in the public FOIA log below) could enrich this thread later, but no longer gates it.
Gonzo, but cited
The public FOIA log
The sourcing, in the open. Every records request this series files is published here with its Illinois five business day clock (5 ILCS 140). Nothing here transmits a request: the log tracks the queue, and sending stays a human act. Right now every request is drafted, awaiting a send.
Village of Pingree Grove
draft
All ordinances and resolutions adopted since 2026-01-01, with adoption date and subject, in native electronic format. Standing monthly request.
The self-updating-corpus request from the roadmap FOIA kit (5 ILCS 140). Drafted and published openly; awaiting a human to send. Feeds the board-decisions thread.
Kane County (GIS)
draft
The following GIS layers as shapefile or GeoJSON with attribute tables: zoning, parcels, corporate boundary, SSA boundaries, floodplain. Include the layer metadata / data dictionary.
Non-commercial request. Parcels and footprints are already in /grove/map from the open portal; this asks for the layers not on the open portal.
Village of Pingree Grove
draft
All building and occupancy permit records issued 2023-01-01 to date, including parcel ID, address, permit type, status, and dates, in native machine-readable format (CSV or XLSX).
Non-commercial request for existing records in native electronic format (5 ILCS 140/6). Would enrich the development-pulse thread with a permit-issuance count; no longer gates it, since that thread now ships from public Planning and Zoning Commission packets instead. Drafted, not yet sent.
Ledger: 3 requests on file, 3 drafted. The Grove FOIA Clerk reads the same ledger.
Methods, and what this is not
How this is built
Public records only. Nothing here is private data about a resident. Thread 1 re-publishes the existing, cited corpus behind /rules; it does not add facts, it makes the facts already on the page downloadable.
A curated slice, not a codification. The corpus is a v1 selection of the rules that matter most to daily life here, each linked to its source. It is not the complete village code, and the conflict layer stays conservative: it names sources rather than declaring a rule unenforceable, except on the two confirmed, human-verified state and federal overrides.
Every figure traces to a real, cited document. The money, board, and development threads ship only because their figures are the Kane County Clerk's own rate listing, the Village's own published Board of Trustees minutes, and the Village's own published Planning and Zoning Commission packets, transcribed and cited row by row. Development pulse is not a permit-issuance count and does not claim to be one; that would need the building department's own records, a separate and slower source.
Recompute it, or it is not true. The counts on this page re-derive from the download, live in your browser and in the test suite. If they ever disagree, the build fails.
Shipped thread 4, development pulse: what the Planning and Zoning Commission actually considered, text amendments, rezonings, special use permits, and plats, transcribed from four Village meeting packets (September 2025 to September 2026). Built deliberately without waiting on the standing building-permit FOIA request: P&Z packets are already public. All four threads are now released.
2026-07-13
Shipped thread 3, the board's decisions: a cited log of the ordinances and resolutions the Village Board adopted, transcribed from three published meeting minutes (2025 to 2026), with the roll-call vote and a link to the source. A v0.1.0 curated seed, grown by the standing monthly FOIA request. Only the development thread remains planned.
2026-07-13
Shipped thread 2, the money layer: where your tax dollar goes. Property-tax shares across the nine taxing bodies on a Pingree Grove bill, from the Kane County Clerk 2024 rate listing, cross-checked against the Village's own figure that its share is under 3 percent. Published as a hashed CSV and JSON release; the board-decisions and development threads remain planned.
2026-07-12
Series launch. Shipped thread 1, the Rules Stack corpus as a versioned, hashed, CSV and JSON open-data release (84 rows across five tables), and opened the public FOIA log with three drafted standing requests. Registered the money, board-decisions, and development-pulse threads as planned.
Related
The Rules Stack - The source of record for thread 1. The full cited corpus, with an address lookup and a cited agent.
The Grove - The same corpus as a walkable civic sim. Its FOIA Clerk reads the ledger below.
The Grove, to scale - Pingree Grove rendered to metres from open parcel and footprint data.
The Legibility Gap - The sibling field-data study, and the content-as-code pattern this one follows.
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