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Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Corrections announced in March the state intended to tear down and rebuild two prisons in poor conditions: the Stateville Correctional Center for men in Crest Hill, outside of Joliet, and the Logan Correctional Center for women outside of Lincoln.
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It was standing-room only at the City of Bloomington Township special meeting on Tuesday where more than 100 people gathered to discuss and vote on whether to place a question on the November ballot concerning U.S. military funding to Israel. The measure failed, and the question will not appear on the November ballot.
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Weeks after two high-profile resignations at the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday appointed the first-ever executive director to help lead the beleaguered agency.
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Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe has been informally telling friends and people who have asked him that he will seek a second, four-year term for a couple months. It's now official.
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County Clerk Kathy Michael apologized for the treatment of Tres'von Milligan-Evans, saying election judges make mistakes but that the ballot was ultimately counted. The county board also formally passed some procedural rule changes.
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Governor calling for sweeping changes in regulation; report shows state facing skyrocketing costs.
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"We have to sustain the commitment — and, frankly, the accountability," Ward 7 council member Mollie Ward said about Bloomington's pledge to prioritize accessibility as work on revitalizing downtown Bloomington via the adopted streetscape plan unfolds.
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Bloomington City Council members voted unanimously Monday to approve the streetscape plan for improving downtown Bloomington that has been in the works for the better part of two years.
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County Board Chair Catherine Metsker said she thinks the county's behavioral health advisory group lacks structure, and she’s tackling the issue head-on. Her self-identified “ambitious goal” is to formalize policies and procedures for the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council — for the first time in its history — and she wants to get it done in under six months.
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McLean County State's Attorney Erika Reynolds said the Pretrial Fairness Act [PFA], which took effect last September as part of a sweeping criminal justice reform law, takes away too much discretion from prosecutors and judges to decide which defendants should remain in custody while awaiting trial.
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A seventh attempt to update the Dual Credit Quality Act has cleared an Illinois House committee, extending the deadline to successfully bring it to the full House. Strong opposition from community college faculty, including both faculty unions at Heartland Community College, curbed a vote last week.
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The full names, addresses and birthdates of some Illinois voters were published last week on a series of websites started by conservative activist Dan Proft. The state Board of Elections said it's asked the company that manages those websites — Local Government Information Services — to take the information down.