Mothers of incarcerated people, joined by other prisoners’ rights advocates, stand in front of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s home in Lincoln Park on Friday morning, They want the governor to halt construction of the Illinois Youth Center and allow contact visits in Illinois prisons tor resume.
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Against a backdrop of bright pink tulips, protesters stood outside Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Gold Coast home on Friday with flowers, signs and a painted piece of cardboard that read, “Dear J.B., on this Mother’s Day, set our loved ones free.”
That oversized Mother’s Day card included demands that Pritzker sign clemency petitions to for prisoners they say have been wrongfully incarcerated and that he stop construction of a new youth prison at the Lincoln Developmental Center.
New $54 Million PX Shopping Center Opens at Fort Sam Houston Photo By Chris Ward | With the snip of a ribbon, a new era of shopping was launched at Joint Base San.. read moreread more Photo By Chris Ward | With the snip of a ribbon, a new era of shopping was launched at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston as the Army & Air Force Exchange Service formally opened its $54 million shopping center, the post’s first new shopping center in 50 years.
The 210,000-square-foot shopping center delivers the Exchange benefit tax-free shopping and military-exclusive pricing on goods and services to active-duty service members, Guard members, Reservists, military families, retirees and Veterans with service-connected disabilities in San Antonio.