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Past Due: Counties Trying To Collect Decades-Old Fines

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Cash-strapped counties in Illinois are trying to call in old fines for offenses like speeding tickets. Some of their efforts have been criticized because the cases they are trying to collect on are two or three decades old.

  

Illinois Issues editor Jamey Dunn talked with Molly Parker, a reporter with The Southern Illinoisan, who wrote a story on the issue.  

You can read Parker's story here.

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