The old-fashioned town meeting, where local citizens vote directly on the affairs of town government, may seem like a thing of the past. But they are an annual affair, right here in Illinois, and the state’s township governments will be holding them, Tuesday evening, April 10.

​Townships are a part of local government that Illinoisans often forget they have ---- until there’s a controversy, like that one that flared up in early January in Urbana.