Dolton “Dictator” Mayor Tiffany Henyard was ruthlessly jeered out of a municipal meeting she barged into minutes Monday night — marking another surreal moment for the beleaguered Illinois village.
The self-proclaimed “super mayor” arrived at the board meeting organized by sparring trustees an hour late — and when she tried to speak, the embattled pol was mocked, booed and shouted down, according to reports.
“I am the mayor of the village of Dolton,” Henyard said dramatically before a chorus of jeers rained down on her.
Mayor Tiffany Henyard faced an onslaught of jeers during a Monday meeting. abc7chicago
“Hold on, respect guys, respect,” she said as the commotion continued. “Let me make my statement or I’m gonna leave your illegal meeting.”
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But attendees didn’t seem to care as they continued to shout at her after she rose to her feet, clutched the microphone on the table and delivered an ill-fated speech.
Some residents even turned their back to her, the Chicago Tribune reported.
She said she was there to make a trio of appointments to fill vacancies, but after seven futile minutes, she ended up leaving.
“Another thing I want you to understand about the board of trustees is they are all corrupt, every last one of them up here is corrupt,” she claimed, leading up to her exit.
As She left the room, the crowd let out sarcastic cheers.
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Henyard, who is also supervisor of nearby Thornton Township, at first attended her own meeting at the village hall, but was forced to cancel it because only two other trustees showed, NBC Chicago reported.
“As you can see, the board did not show up, and these are the things residents are tired of,” she reportedly said at that meeting.
“They are tired of these games.”
The leader’s actions have led to constant controversy. Facebook / Tiffany Henyard
Henyard cryptically posted on Facebook on Tuesday, “I need all my black sheep to stand with me.”
“You are not alone if God is for us then who can be against us,” she wrote.
Henyard has faced the wrath of Dolton residents — with some calling her a dictator — and some of her fellow elected officials over allegations she misused taxpayer funds and mismanaged other aspects of the village.
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Subpoenas have been served in Dolton and Thornton Township as part of a federal probe.
A report undertaken by ex-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot revealed this summer the village’s finances are in shambles due to increased spending.
Henyard wants to name a new police chief, village administrator and village attorney, but a Cook County judge determined last month Henyard didn’t follow protocol when she tried to make the proposed appointments after trustees opposed to Henyard filed a lawsuit, the Tribune reported.
The meeting where Henyard waltzed in late was held in a park district fieldhouse after an Illinois attorney general’s office ruled the village violated the state’s transparency laws by not giving residents a large enough venue to all attend, according to the newspaper.
On Tuesday, she filed a lawsuit calling on a judge to force the opposing trustees to hold meetings at the village hall, accusing them of illegally holding meetings at the fieldhouse, ABC 7 Chicago reported.
BEECHER CITY, Ill. (WAND) – Farms were damaged in Effingham County Wednesday evening when a powerful storm swept through at around 8 p.m.
The McKay Farm in Beecher City was heavily damaged when the rapidly moving storm hit.
“Two buildings were totally destroyed,” Dan McKay told WAND News on Thursday. “We’ve got five grain bins and they’re all damaged.”
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The buildings collapsed onto farm equipment and a semi that were parked in the structures. A utility pole was snapped and ripped out of the ground.
In nearby Shumway, another farm was hit. A barn collapsed, with a grain bin being ripped apart and debris traveling several hundred feet through a nearby corn field. A house on the property was also damaged.
Powerful tornadoes leave behind devastation in Illinois – CBS News
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Violent tornadoes ripped through central Illinois on Wednesday, leaving behind swaths of destruction. One man described how he shielded himself and his family from the storms. Rob Marciano reports.
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Multiple rounds of severe storms impacted central Illinois on Wednesday bringing damaging wind gusts and very heavy rain. Our area was sparred from the worst of the tornadoes, but areas south of I-72 were not so fortunate with damage to homes and injuries reported.
An outflow boundary from our morning storms struggled to get any further north than highway 136, which was about 30 miles south of what was anticipated early this morning. This kept the risk of strong tornadoes just south of our local region, though we still had plenty of rain and instances of large hail and gusty winds roll through central Illinois.
The worst of the wind came with the storms in the morning. As the severe storms moved through the area they produced measured gust of 60-70 mph with localized gusts estimated to be around 80 mph. The winds resulted in tree, powerline, and structural damage from Knox through McLean County.
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Galesburg – Tree and power line damage Williamsfield – Roof partially torn off building Princeville – Tree damage Dunlap – 60 mph wind gust Bellevue – 60 mph wind gust Germantown Hills – Trees down Roanoke – 60 mph wind gust El Paso – Power poles snapped El Paso – Multiple semis and campers rolled on I-39 Gidley – 70 mph wind gust Chenoa – Semi rolled on I-55