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  2. Will County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Will County is a county in the northeastern part of the state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 696,355, an increase of 2.8% from 677,560 in 2010, making it Illinois's fourth-most populous county. [1] The county seat is Joliet. [2] Will County is one of the five collar counties of the Chicago–Naperville–Elgin, IL–IN–WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. The ...

  3. Government of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    WPA poster for the Cook County Public Health Unit (1941) The administrative divisions of Illinois are the counties, townships, precincts, cities, towns, villages, and special-purpose districts. Illinois has more units of local government than any other state—over 8,000 in all. The basic subdivision of Illinois are the 102 counties.

  4. Lottery scratch-off ticket wins $1M for Illinois man - AOL

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    Kevin Weaver, of Fairview, bought the $1 million winning scratch-off ticket at County Market, 1090 E. Fort St. in Farmington, Illinois. "I scratched the ticket in my truck in the parking lot of ...

  5. Illinois Tollway - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority ( ISTHA) is an administrative agency of the U.S. state of Illinois charged with building, operating, and maintaining toll roads in the state. The roads, as well as the authority itself, are sometimes referred to as the Illinois Tollway. [a] The system opened in 1958 in the Chicago area, and has subsequently expanded to include the eastern and central ...

  6. $1M winning Illinois Lottery ticket sold in suburban Chicago

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    A Lotto Million 1 ticket worth a cool $1 million was recently sold at a BP gas station, located at 39105 North Highway 41 in Wadsworth, a statement from Illinois Lottery officials said. The ticket ...

  7. SAFE-T Act - Wikipedia

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    The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections. [1] [2] The Act's section on pretrial detention, which took effect in full on September 18, 2023, is also known as ...

  8. A $50K Powerball lottery ticket sold in southwest Illinois

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    February 4, 2023 at 12:03 PM. LM Otero/AP. A $50,000 Powerball ticket was sold at a Collinsville convenience store, the Illinois Lottery announced ahead of the drawing for a $700 million jackpot ...

  9. List of counties in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    What is now Illinois was claimed as part of Illinois County, Virginia, between 1778 and 1782. Modern-day county formation dates to 1790 when the area was part of the Northwest Territory; two counties—St. Clair and Knox—were created at that time. Knox would later become a county in Indiana and is unrelated to the current Knox County in Illinois, while St. Clair would become the oldest ...