Democrats Offer Revised Illinois Legislative Map Amid Compromise
Democrats unveiled a revamped Illinois legislative map cutting down cross‑incumbent cuts and tightening long districts while preserving key Southern and Chicago‑area boundaries. The Bilandic plan aims to satisfy GOP concerns, shifts power toward Chicago suburbs, but faces court challenges and a pending legal battle over the commission’s four‑by‑four deadlock and lottery selection.
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State Supreme Court
Michael Bilandic
Bilandic
Legislative Redistricting Commission
Illinois
Senate
David S. Luechtefeld
Rokanville
William L. O’daniel
Mount Vernon
Larry D. Woolard
Carterville
Rock Falls
Chicago
Topinka launches loan program for mobilized Illinois guards
Illinois State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka announces Operation Protect & Provide to aid National Guard and reservists called to active duty. Eligible borrowers may obtain up to 10000 at 3 percent, with six month or deployment end repayment. Up to 10 million funded through local banks. program cost estimated 300000 in lost investment revenue. Topinka toured Milan to explain plan and urged other states to adopt similar measures.
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Rock Island
Illinois
National Guard
Judy Baar Topinka
Milan
Topinka
Treasuries
Treasury Department
Carbondale
Illinois Financial Institution
Treasurer's Office
Education funding survey flags tax reliance and equity
Preliminary results from an Illinois survey show near unanimity that property taxes fund schools too heavily and that equity should guide state funding. The Education Funding Advisory Board plans to use the input to shape a comprehensive per pupil spending framework, despite a low response rate from many organizations.
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Springfield
Illinois
Robert Leininger
State of
Marlen Trover
Vienna High
Toni Waggoner
Illinois State Board of Education
Leininger
State Board of Education
Terrorism suspect moved to New York after Chicago questioning
FBI moved Nabil Al-Marabh to New York under IN S custody after four days of questioning in Chicago. The 32 year old, arrested Sept. 19 in Burbank on an INS detainer, shares a name with a person sought over the Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks. Federal prosecutors plan to seek extradition of Nageeb Abdul Jabar Mohamed Al-Hadi in Toronto on passport fraud charges connected to the hijack period.
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New York
FBI
Nabil Al-Marabh
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Virginia Wright
INS
Pentagon
World Trade Center
Al-Marabh
Burbank
Massachusetts
Toronto
Nageeb Abdul Jabar Mohamed Al-Hadi
Randall Samborn
U.S
Al-Hadi
Samborn
Lufthansa
Frankfurt
Canada
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Lisa Madigan
Wisconsin
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Jacksonville
Galesburg
Jim Ryan
Rockford
Illinois Supreme Court
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Bert Docter
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