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Founded in 1967, the PTAB was originally a panel of final administrative appeal for property tax assessment cases from the 101 counties of Illinois other than Cook County, Illinois's largest county in terms of population and property value. In 1997, the Illinois General Assembly expanded PTAB's jurisdictions to cover Cook County. PTAB, by ...
Citizen Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting, also known as CLEAR, is a system of relational databases used by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in Chicago, Illinois. These databases allow law enforcement officials to easily cross-reference available information in investigations and to analyze crime patterns using a geographic information ...
Illinois Public Interest Research Group (Illinois PIRG) is a non-profit organization that is part of the state PIRG organizations. It works on a variety of political activities, including childhood obesity , reducing the interest on student loans, and closing tax loopholes.
The Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA / ˈ f ɔɪ j ə / FOY-yə), 5 ILCS 140/1 et seq., is an Illinois statute that grants to all persons the right to copy and inspect public records in the state.
The Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) a free market nonprofit think tank with offices in Chicago and Springfield. [2] Founded in 2002, it is active in the areas of education policy, pension policy, and state budget issues. [3] IPI advocates for smaller government and lower taxes. [4] [5] It has an affiliated lobbying arm and legal arm. [4]
The John Patton Log Cabin is a log home located in Lexington Park District Park in Lexington, Illinois. The home was built in 1829 by John Patton, an early settler of McLean County . Patton, who was originally from Switzerland County, Indiana , came to a Kickapoo village in the area; he built his cabin with the tribe's assistance three months ...
By 1944, the P&PU was switching 14 major railways that ran into Peoria, an unusually high number of railways for a city the size of Peoria. The P&PU currently switches trains for 8 other railways, handles over 170,000 cars per year, and is owned jointly by the Canadian National Railway , Norfolk Southern Railway , and Union Pacific Railroad .
The Illinois chapter of the ACLU responded negatively to this use of I-Pass data, referring to it as "mission creep". [ 3 ] After reading the WBEZ report, state representative Margo McDermed introduced a bill to prevent the release of tollway records for drivers involved in lawsuits, and to require law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access ...