We pull from municipal websites, meeting platforms, state comptroller filings, crime databases, tax revenue reports, and licensing systems. Parsed, structured, reconciled.
About MyTownView
Every public record that shapes a community — in one clear view.
Every municipality in America is legally required to publish meeting agendas, minutes, financial reports, and public records. Almost nobody reads them. MyTownView exists to change that.
Why this exists
Local information is scattered. We pull it together.
The information is scattered across dozens of government websites, buried in PDFs, and posted without context. According to Northwestern University’s State of Local News report, over 3,200 local newspapers have closed since 2005 — leaving 50 million Americans in news deserts with no local coverage at all.
Local decisions still get made every week. MyTownView is where they become legible.
Three moves, repeated every day.
AI transcribes meeting recordings into timestamped, searchable summaries. Financial reports become interactive charts. Crime data becomes trend analysis. Every claim links to its source.
One page per town: meetings, finances, safety, business activity, community events. Calm, authoritative, free to explore.
A hometown kid who wanted to know what was happening.
Hi, I’m Tony Grollo. I’ve always believed local government matters more than anything happening at the state or national level. These are the decisions that directly affect your street, your kids’ school, your property taxes, your neighborhood. And unlike federal politics, you can actually show up and have a voice.
The problem is that staying informed is unreasonably hard. Government websites are scattered, clunky, and built for compliance rather than residents. Meeting minutes are buried in PDFs. Financial data is locked in portals nobody knows about. I spent years digging through this stuff on my own just to understand what was happening in my own town.
I’ve lived in Villa Park since I was three. It’s the only hometown I’ve ever known. That’s what made it the testing ground — aggregating meeting agendas, digging into budgets, tracking crime stats, piecing together a picture of what local government was actually doing. Eventually I realized other people might want this too.
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Villa Park is where we started — the deepest coverage and the testing ground for every feature.