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Bids Solicited for Illinois Courthouse

SYCAMORE, Ill. — Officials in Dekalb County are seeking bids for a $14.5 million expansion of the Dekalb County Courthouse.
 
Gilbane Building Co. of Chicago is the construction manager for the project, which consists of approximately 36,000 square feet of additional courthouse and office space on four levels that will adjoin the existing courthouse structure.

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Illinois Prison Could Go Up for Auction

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The largest public employee union in the state of Illinois recently has called for Gov. Pat Quinn to avoid selling the Thomson Correctional Center, just north of Thomson, Ill. and use it to ease overcrowding in other Illinois prisons.
 
The Quinn administration has set December 21 as the date the prison will be auctioned off in Chicago.
 
The prison was once targeted for Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects.

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