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The Springfield City Council passed an ordinance authorizing a development agreement with the Springfield Park District for improvements in parks in the Enos Park and Madison Park tax-increment financing districts during a special meeting Tuesday.
The final adoption came with an amendment: The park district won t get money from the city until it makes improvements on the parks, and the money doled out will be on a project-by-project basis.
The amendment further limited the park district to spending any leftover money on two parks Comer Cox and Chamberlain both in the Far East TIF District, which is contiguous to both the Enos Park and Madison Park Place TIF districts.
The gunman in a fatal shooting at Comer Cox Park in Springfield in 2017 pleaded guilty to first-degree intentional murder in Sangamon County Court on Wednesday.
Rashod D. Postlewaite, 21, was sentenced to 35 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections by Circuit Judge Ryan Cadagin.
Postlewaite was one of four men charged with the murder of Andre Booker III on May 31, 2017, while the 19-year-old Booker was playing basketball at the east-side park.
Based on police statements at the time, Booker was shot in retaliation for the shooting of Sheena Malone the night before because Booker was “associated with the group” involved in Malone’s death.