Pulse

It looks like Will County Clerk Nancy Schultz Voots finally bought herself a vowel.

For years, the clerk's Web site address was www.willclrk.com, with no "e" in clerk. But Voots has a newly remodeled Web site now, complete with an "e" in clerk. The address is www.thewillcountyclerk.com .

That could make the site easier to find for voters looking for the latest information about candidates filing for the Feb. 2 election.

Voots will post updates on the site as candidates file their nominating petitions. The deadline is 5 p.m. today.

Joliet Chamber CEO Russ Slinkard said he wasn't sure what ex-Bear Tom Thayer will talk about during Wednesday night's annual chamber dinner at Syl's 150 West. Thayer is the guest speaker. Slinkard assumes Thayer, who grew up in Joliet, will touch on his days with the Chicago football team that went on to win Super Bowl XX.

Not to dwell on the past, but Thayer also played with Joliet Catholic High School state championship teams in 1977 and 1978, which also might provide more stimulating food for thought than the so-far mediocre Bears team of 2009.

Thayer has kept ties with his home town. In recent years he has served as the official spokesman for the city as part of a marketing campaign run by the Joliet Visitors Bureau.

Maybe it's reminiscent of the Public Works of Art Project, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs that funded artists during the Great Depression.

The Friends of Community Arts in Joliet received federal stimulus funding to work on a mosaic of the late Louise Ray , the Joliet community activist who started and ran the Forest Park Community Center. Ray died in January.

Tony Ray (no relation), now executive director of the Forest Park Community Center, said the mosaic will be unveiled in a ceremony being planned for Nov. 12.

Best wishes to Will County Judge Stephen White and his wife Barb on the birth of their first grandson.

Michael Stephen Sallese , eight pounds, two ounces, arrived Tuesday. Proud parents are Meghan and Mike Sallese of Mokena, the Whites' daughter and son-in-law.

The grandparents are spoiling him already. After leaving the hospital, they went straight to Macy's, Pottery Barn for Kids, TJ Maxx.

Here's one from the political joke book of Joliet comedian James Hood , who goes by the stage name "Jimmy the Hood": "The problem with socialism is it's always great until you run out of other people's money."

Pulse contributors included Cindy Wojdyla Cain, Bob Okon and Stewart Warren.