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Progress on the massive restoration project at the Gustave Korner House in Belleville has been slow and challenging, but community leaders are looking toward the city for help.
Volunteers say raffles, concerts, silent auctions and trivia nights can’t raise the kind of money needed to finish the job.
“We love our relationship with Scott Air Force Base and our military families. ... But I do think this act had some unintended consequences.”
Illinois quit collecting property taxes on disabled veterans in 2015, but that has cost Metro East school districts and other taxing bodies near Scott Air Force Base hundreds of thousands — or sometimes millions of dollars.
(The Center Square) – With six days of veto session planned for the Illinois General Assembly this fall, legislators will have their hands full dealing with the state’s energy policies.