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by Ashlee Rezin
7:11pm
Thu May 16

Pressure Against Joliet's Proposed For-Profit Immigrant Detention Center Escalates (VIDEO)

Pressure is mounting against a proposal to open a for-profit immigrant detention center in Joliet. Activists submitted 4,000 petitions against the facility to the Joliet City Council Thursday, just one day after four Illinois congressional delegates sent a letter asking the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Janet Napolitano, to reject the prison’s proposal.

U.S. Reps. Mike Quigley (D, IL-5), Tammy Duckworth (D, IL-8), Brad Schneider (D, IL-10) and Bill Foster (D, IL-11) were behind the letter sent to Napolitano on Wednesday.

“Bringing an immigrant detention center to Joliet would mean overwhelming fear for this city’s immigrant community,” said Jesse Hoyt, an organizer with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). “The pressure that’s on the city and the county to do something to stop this is getting much more intense.”

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by Ashlee Rezin
3:32pm
Mon Apr 8
1 comment

Hundreds Protest Potential Immigrant Detention Center In Joliet (VIDEO)

Immigration

Hundreds of protesters took the streets of Joliet Saturday to voice their opposition to a for-profit immigrant detention center in their town.

PI Original
by Matthew Blake
4:40pm
Thu Oct 11, 2012

Jackson Jr.'s Absence Brings Uncertainty To Illinois' Second Congressional District

Election 2012

It is a mystery to 2nd district residents as to whether they will get an experienced and high-profile representative with the clout to bring money and jobs to the area, a representative weakened by both his medical condition and a still pending ethics investigation, or a special election for a new representative after the November general election.

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by Angela Caputo
5:04pm
Thu Nov 13, 2008

IL Foreclosure Notices Keep Rolling In

Dupage Co.

More bad news emerged on the Illinois foreclosure front today. The number of homeowners slapped with bank repossessions, foreclosure, default or auction sale notices came to 12,681 in October -- a 24 percent increase from September and a 31 percent increase over the same ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:06am
Fri Nov 7, 2008
2 comments

Obama Dominates The Collar Counties

Kane Co.

As Josh noted yesterday,
the most dramatic change in the Illinois presidential map between 2004 and 2008 is the blue-ing of the collar counties. Solid Bush terrain
four years ago, every single county swung for Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Here's a data comparison (click &...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
1:04pm
Fri Mar 28, 2008
1 comment

What To Do About Stateville?

Will Co.

Gov. Blagojevich knows how far $100 million could go in the state budget. So it's no surprise that last month, he announced his intention to close the maximum-security wing at Joliet's Stateville Correctional Center instead of spending approximately that amount to make ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
11:15am
Thu Mar 20, 2008
4 comments

Blue-ing The Collar Counties

Will Co.

Amy Tauchman had no special affinity for DuPage County. In some ways, she just ended up there. It was the late 1980s and she and her husband were looking for some more space for their budding family. They considered moving to Evanston, a town whose residents largely aligned ...