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A law abolishing cash bail will take effect in Illinois on Sept. 18. The change makes Illinois the first state to eliminate the practice and a nationally watched testing ground for whether such a change can work.

Been great to be an Illinoisan the last couple years!

R. Buckminster Fuller, creator of the buckyball, was a professor at SIU in Carbondale in the 1960's. At that time, he built and lived in a large buckyball home, which has been restored and will soon be a museum to the man and his legacy.

A small town in southern Illinois reaches racial parity in their city council makeup, with a black mayor and equal number of black and white members. Oh, and they also have an openly trans council member as well...

This from a part of the state where some people still fly Confederate battle flags.

Last week a recent highschool graduate was shot and killed by a Rantoul police officer.

There was gun fire at the vigil held the next day for the person that was killed.

Then the day after that there was a standoff with armed suspects at a mobile home park in Rantoul.

Now the village administrator has resigned after being arrested for Domestic battery and preventing the reporting of Domestic battery.

There's already a community for the Chicago area (!chicago@midwest.social), but there's more to Illinois than the Windy City. Chicagoans are welcome, but I'd like to try to keep news and things related to outside the northeast corner of the state.

Join us at !illinois@midwest.social