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Chicago Tribune: Rauner to shutter 'terrible,' outdated part of Stateville prison
Gov. Bruce Rauner announced Friday that his administration would close a controversial section of the Stateville Correctional Center known as the “roundhouse,” the latest move in the Republican governor’s efforts to reshape the state’s prison system.
The decision to shutter the F House at the Crest Hill prison was praised by prison watchdog groups that noted the design, marked by a central watchtower surrounded by several floors of cells, had long been abandoned in the United States.
Leonard Cavise, DePaul University emeritus professor of law, called the closure long overdue.
Chicago Tribune: 2 Chicago cops still on paid desk duty a decade after police scandal
A decade after one of the most damaging scandals in Chicago police history broke, two of the officers accused of wrongdoing remain on desk duty at full pay, filing papers or answering phones as they await the outcome of the city’s slow-moving and much-criticized disciplinary process.
The two are just a fraction of about 85 officers who remain on the force but are barred from working on the street because of ongoing disciplinary cases that can take years to close.
As Chicago police fight surging violence and Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledges the need for more police on the street, these sidelined officers are taking a toll on finances and available manpower.
Daily Southtown: Orland Park mayor's pay raise would spike pension
If Orland Park trustees vote yes on a plan more than tripling the mayor’s salary to $150,000 a year, it will lead to a big spike in Mayor Dan McLaughlin’s future pension, a Daily Southtown analysis found.
Village officials are considering whether to raise the mayor’s annual salary from $40,000 to $150,000 and expand the office’s responsibilities, a move the village casts as a cost-saving measure in lieu of hiring two other administrators. The measure could be approved at Monday’s Village Board meeting.
But if the deal goes through, McLaughlin’s pension would soar.
Sun-Times: Long a Madigan man, now a county commissioner
The rise of the Cook County Board’s newest commissioner starts, as so many good political stories in Chicago do, a long time ago in the old neighborhood.
Ed Moody and his twin brother Fred Moody were teenagers hanging out at West Lawn Park on the city’s Southwest Side when they met a politician named Mike Madigan.
Herald & Review: Madigan movie to be shown on Decatur TV today
A campaign-season film that takes a critical look at Democratic Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan of Chicago is coming to the small screen this weekend.
The film from Illinois Policy Action — the advocacy arm of the conservative Illinois Policy Institute, which has close ties to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner — will begin airing in the Decatur television market at 7 p.m. today on WBUI (The CW).
Showings are scheduled in the Quad-Cities, Bloomington and Southern Illinois markets in the coming days, and there are plans to make it available online later this month.