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Homeowners push ahead in fight against truck stop

A plan to bring a largescale truck stop to the southwest corner of Interstate I-80 and Briggs Street in Joliet remains tied up in court despite it being previously approved in 2018 by the City Council – albeit by a somewhat slim majority vote at the time. A Will County Circuit Court Judge has yet to rule on the injunction filed against Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores on behalf of the Neighbors Opposed to Annexation of Parcels (N.O.A.P.) group in 2018. A hearing on the case is scheduled for January 19, 2022. A property at 1314 New Lenox Road, in unincorporated Joliet, which is owned by Jaquenette and Wesley Cottrell would need to be annexed into Joliet for the project to move forward. Both are members of N.O.A.P. and are apposed to annexing into Joliet. Jaquenette has launched a new website (www.neighborsopposedtoannexationofparcels.com) to keep residents and the community updated on progress to the proposed truck stop. Cottrell and other neighbors have been fighting the proposal since 2018.

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Pandemic’s adverse impact on students

It will likely come as no surprise that the COVID pandemic had an adverse impact on student learning and for many students put them behind in their academics.
Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 officials just released a report showing that high school student state academic achievement dipped in 2020-21, “at least partly because students did not have direct, in-person instruction for much of the last school year.”
The State Board of Education on December 2, released the first round of 2020-21 academic achievement data as part of the new State Report Card. More detailed information reflecting actual assessment data from last spring’s state testing is expected in April 2022.
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) updated information on the Illinois School Report Card website for school districts to the public. District- and school-level data can be found at illinoisreportcard.com.

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