Ill. Dems Want To Lower Threshold For 'Home Rule' Towns

By Hannah Meisel (February 27, 2018, 10:04 PM EST) -- A group of Democratic Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday announced they would push to amend the state's constitution in order to lower the population threshold of so-called "home rule" communities from 25,000 to 5,000 so that nearly 170 more municipalities in Illinois would be able to determine more or their own laws beyond state statutes....

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