Carroll County News

MT. CARROLL Citing job creation and stimulating economic growth, a County Resolution in support of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons purchasing the Thomson Correctional Center from the State of Illinois was approved at the November 19 Carroll County Board meeting.

Thomson Correctional Center is the leading candidate to become the U.S. detention center that will house about 100 Guantanamo detainees when that facility is shut down.

Put aside for a moment apprehensions about possible negative impacts on Carroll County posed by dozens of newly arrived Gitmo terrorist suspects, and the conversion of the little-used Thomson Correctional Center into a federal prison makes sense.

" November 15, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today joined U.S. Senator Richard Durbin to announce that senior Obama Administration officials will consider plans to use the Thomson Correctional Center.

Thomson, Ill., bait shop owner Todd Baker said a federal takeover of the prison there would be good for the town and surrounding Carroll County, where unemployment is 10.5 percent.

Once federal officials said they might move terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, to a nearly empty prison here, residents of this faded rural village began debating what they should fear most - the suspects or the downward spiral of the economy here.

Federal officials are at a prison in northwest Illinois that the government might buy to house Guantanamo Bay detainees.

It's the Thomson Correctional Center, located about 70 miles southwest of Rockford in Carroll County.

LANARK – Carroll County businesses will offer special holiday shopping opportunities Friday and Saturday during the Holiday Shop Hop in Lanark and Mount Carroll.

Harvest Season Permits. What can I say other than it is confusing!! I have heard rumor that some have bought "harvest season permits". Well here is what I can tell you about them.

How many property owners realize there is a new taxing authority in Carroll County? It's called the Upper Mississippi River International Port District sponsored in the Legislature by Sen.

MOUNT CARROLL – A camp for kids, sponsored by the University of Illinois Extension Carroll County office, will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Nov.

Carroll County Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy representatives met with Rep.

A Savanna businessman has been contacted by several of his customers about a representative from a fraudulent credit card processing company attempting to overcharge them for a service that would also cost thousands to cancel.

Greg Miller, Carroll County Coordinator for the Emergency Services Disaster Agency , speaks with local municipal leaders and emergency services personnel during the Wednesday, Oct.

Nick Smith at Steve and Jane Smith's farm next to the large ear of corn carved into a tree trunk in rural Milledgeville.

The Savanna 911 Center and the Carroll County Sheriff's Department received reports of an accident on Illinois 84, near the Seven Eagle Campground, south of Savanna, on Friday.

Rich Morthland Republican candidate for 71st District and his wife Betsy are introduced to nearly 40 supporters by Venita McConnel, who is Morthland's Carroll County Campaign Coordinator.

EAST MOLINE – State Rep. Mike Boland, the 8-term Democrat from Illinois' 71st District, will not seek re-election to the General Assembly.

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