Downers Grove Township Suspends Peer Jury Program

DARIEN, IL — Downers Grove Township has suspended its peer jury program. According to its website, the program first launched in 2000, and was administered by the Human Services Department of the township.

"Townships constantly push to be the most efficient and responsive unit of local government. In trying to be so, the Township’s Human Services Department has administered a Peer Jury Program for the residents and on behalf of the municipalities of the Township for many years," Township Supervisor Mark Thoman said in a release. "Now due to a reorganization of the Human Services Department, compelled upon the township by funding cuts by the state of Illinois, the township can no longer provide the longstanding Peer Jury Program to our township residents."

According to the website, before its suspension, the peer jury program was at three different sites and had anywhere from 175 to 225 trained high school student jurors.

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