Depending on the news source, Illinois state budget cuts are resulting in the closure of two dozen sites or 13 or 14 historical sites and 11 state parks and/or 25 overall historical sites and state parks.
But let's not get caught up in numbers even though we are dealing with a budget.
Part of Drawn Lots (one half to be exact) now calls the fine state of Illinois, home, so we feel compelled to react.
The closures were to originally take place on October 1 and November 1 for historical sites and state parks respectively, but those dates have been pushed back to November 30, 2008. Nonetheless there is not much time, so we are going to get working on drawing attention to this locations. You can read more about all this by following these links:
wikinews - has complete list of closures
AP article
Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
Landmarks Illinois - news about current status of bills to restore the cuts made in the budget
Stay tuned to Drawn Lots for more info.
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