Friday, December 1, 2023

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State Commission holds hearing on Tamms closure

Illinois state officials sit before the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability panel at Shawnee Community College Educational Center in Ullin Monday afternoon to argue in defense of Gov. Pat Quinn’s proposal to close the Tamms Correctional Center. The hearing, which lasted for more than four hours, took testimony from …

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Johnson County responds to Harrisburg disaster

On Wednesday, February 29 at 4:56 a.m., the City of Harrisburg was struck by a deadly tornado. While much of Johnson County was unaware of the severe destruction to its northeast early that morning, area emergency and law enforcement personnel were already responding. In the hours and days that followed, …

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Boots to Suits

Iraq War Veteran and Boots to Suits’ Executive Director Joshua Schiff begins pointing at his new office floor and hardly finishes a sentence before he is pointing off in another direction. Schiff and his partners recently opened their doors for business in a space on Locust Street near downtown Vienna …

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Two long time DNR employees retire

Tunnel Hill State Trail Site Superintendent Steve Graves, of Vienna, laughs at the suggestion of sleeping in once he is retired from a 33-year career of working for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR). “I haven’t really given it a lot of thought as to what I’m going to …

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