🌱 Barrington Hills lawmaker joins bipartisan push for ethics report release
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- Barrington Hills lawmaker joins bipartisan push for ethics report release
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• Illinois news in brief: House Democrat joins calls to release Benton report; State EV rebate program to begin Aug. 1; Member of armed robbery crew gets 15 years in prison (blackchronicle.com) — Barrington Hills is briefly in the spotlight as state Sen. Darby Hills joins bipartisan calls to release an ethics report on former Rep. Harry Benton. Other statewide updates include the next round of Illinois’ EV rebate program starting Aug. 1, a 15-year sentence for a suburban armored-truck robber, and major youth trapshooting championships in southern Illinois. 
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