Our view: Prison sale is good news for Illinois
The Illinois Department of Corrections finished building the Thomson Correctional Center in November 2001.
For much of the nearly 11 years since then, the maximum-security prison has sat empty, its promise of hundreds of state jobs unfulfilled.
Those frustrating days appear to be over.
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