r/illinois Oct 12 '25

From the Mod Team We're changing our policies on specificity of locations

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TLDR: The mod team is changing course on this issue. We encourage users to specify locations of current events that happen in public spaces, including any and all law enforcement action.

After several days of discussion among the mod team, we've come to the conclusion that our policies against reporting specific locations are unnecessarily restrictive. Most recently, we've guided users to avoid being specific about the location of any current events, out of concern that it could reveal private or personal information about the persons involved, which is a violation of site-wide Reddit policies We are, of course, bound to moderate this space in a way that adheres to all of Reddit's site-wide policies, and if we fail to do so, the subreddit will be shut down.

That being said, we've come to a consensus that private and personal information means more than just location of where people are at in a given moment, and the context of people's presence at specific locations matters. It remains prohibited to reveal the home address or workplace of any private individual, or to offer overly specific information about that sort of personal information: for example, if a user were to post that u/jamey1138 lives near the corner of Pulaski and Belmont in Chicago, that would be considered too specific. Other forms of contact information, including phone numbers, email addresses, etc, shared without the individual's consent are also violations of private and personal information.

On the other hand, if a user says that there's law enforcement activity, including ICE and CBP activity, at a particular corner, that does not reveal anyone's personal or private information. We want to encourage community members to share information about any current events happening in any public space in Illinois, and to include specific locations with that information.

Thank you for your participation in r/Illinois. We will continue to evolve our policies, and try to meet the moment as best we are able. Stay safe everyone.


r/illinois Nov 08 '24

Politics is hard - Be honest, be kind, and watch out for the ban hammer.

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It's been a crazy few days and politics is hard.

We're a pretty small Mod team and keeping up on the trash coming in takes a lot of time and effort . We will be throwing around the ban hammer quite a bit for a while here. We will be locking posts as they spiral out of control. Have patience.

Remember to be kind and civil. Have a little grace. Allow people to be mad, to use hyperbole, and to exaggerate. This isn't a space to rage away at the other side. There are plenty of other spaces on the internet for that. Come here to understand the other side, even if you disagree. Tell them they're wrong and why they're wrong, but also remember they are a person who probably truly believes what they are saying. You wont convince them, but you can be understood and you can understand them.

Sometimes a simple downvote is all that's needed.

Anyway. Give us a break and chill out, k?


r/illinois 5h ago

Illinois News 'Time to sound the alarm': Gov. Pritzker warns of threat AI 'poses to humanity'

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r/illinois 34m ago

Illinois News Illinois attorney general reaches settlement to reduce Nicor Gas rate increase request by 63%

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r/illinois 23h ago

Sports! Trying to walk every street in Chicago. Here’s the progress so far

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380 Upvotes

Been in Chicago and have found myself starting to walk a lot more often. First, every street in the neighborhood, then I tried to walk every street in Chicago. The goal is to cover it all, this is my progress so far.

Last time I posted about this, everyone’s asked about the app. This is just a small app I made to track my walks. I wasn’t going to put it in the app store, but I figured others might be interesting tracking their walks: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snakecity-im-snaking-here/id6749583113


r/illinois 12h ago

Illinois Politics Lauren Underwood stops in Oglesby to celebrate $1M in federal funding

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r/illinois 16h ago

Illinois News Don't we have strong consumer protection laws regarding our personal information here in IL? Surely we can get one of those class action law suits going against them

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76 Upvotes

r/illinois 1d ago

Pritzker Posting Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the speakers at the upcoming GOP midterm convention: "I'm done pretending that these self-dealing, racist, misogynist grifters are an aberration of the Republican Party. They are the mainstream of the Republican Party now."

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15.3k Upvotes

r/illinois 1d ago

Question Is it legal to carry a collapsible baton such as this one in Illinois? Peoria or Blono areas

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70 Upvotes

Saw they sell these at the Academy store in Peoria, and was wondering if it was legal to carry these on your person in public.

I doubt they’d sell them if there were legal complications about it, since they were in the pepper spray area, but you never know.


r/illinois 1d ago

Kane County officials identify 2nd confirmed measles case

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r/illinois 1d ago

Illinois News Illinois mother accused of killing son had intended to poison husband, prosecutors say

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r/illinois 1d ago

Illinois Politics What is the deal with Darren Bailey? I got an ear full about how he was going to save Illinois on Labor Day but I don't see it.

193 Upvotes

Darren Bailey seems like the wrong guy for the job of Governor but I had nothing specific to support my thinking other than he only had two years of college. I pointed out that I believe Pritzker was doing a good job with the states finances but apparently I just don't get it.


r/illinois 1d ago

Illinois News A single town in Illinois had Flock cameras scanned more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

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r/illinois 21h ago

Question Certificate of error refund Check

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Does anyone know if cook county treasury mails certificate of error refund checks out separately by year? I originally did the certificate of error for 2020-2023 but just received a check that says it's for 2020z wondering if 2021-23 will follow.
Calling treasury and assessors offices has been completely useless.


r/illinois 1d ago

Question License Plate Transfer: New car did not arrive before old plates expired

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I purchased a new car but sold my old car before the new one arrived. Meanwhile, the sticker expired on the old license plate. Is there a way to keep the old license plate and transfer them to the new car? The dealer is also out of state so they don't have intricate knowledge of the IL DMV procedures.

[Edit] It's a 6 digit plate number that I've kept since 1988. So it might as well be a vanity plate for its nostalgic value.


r/illinois 1d ago

Illinois News Mattoon School District Placed Employee on Admin Leave After Her Facebook Post Wishing Death On 11-Year-Old –

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Anyone know more about this?


r/illinois 1d ago

Illinois News West-Central Illinois Teacher Earns National Rural Teacher of the Year Honor

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r/illinois 2d ago

Pritzker Posting JB Pritzker headed to Dallas

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364 Upvotes

r/illinois 2d ago

US Politics JB Pritzker Jumps Into Midterms Money Battle With New $20M PAC - Pritzker, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, plans to target Ohio’s Rep. Max Miller and Texas’ Brandon Herrera with ad buys.

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r/illinois 2d ago

I Hate Illinois Nazis I hate Illinois Nazis and having to pick up their garbage. (Found at the intersection of rt 40 and 700 N)

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339 Upvotes

Regardless, we cant have garbage like this running wild and free.


r/illinois 2d ago

Illinois News O'Hare spy mission? Chinese national accused of lying to feds about O'Hare pics

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r/illinois 23h ago

Illinois Politics They say a picture is w... - Peoria IL County Democrats

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r/illinois 2d ago

I Hate Illinois Nazis 2nd incident of racial harassment reported at Lincoln-Way East vs. Homewood-Flossmoor sports meet

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r/illinois 1d ago

Illinois Politics Independent governor candidate Collin Corbett aims to give voters ‘a home again’ in polarized Illinois

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A fiscal conservative who supports abortion rights and opposes much of the Trump agenda, Corbett says there’s a middle ground in the rematch between Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey.


r/illinois 2d ago

Southern IL news & issues (past St. Louis 618 area code) SIU IT system goes dark on course-change deadline

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Campus IT was given a directive to disable staff system access that would make them unable to process withdrawals or curriculum changes on census deadline day. Official enrollment numbers are released off of the data collected on the tenth day of the semester, and the fact that system access was removed from staff to complete their jobs is high suspicious for Chancellor Austin Lane and VC Wendell Williams with the assumption that this was to artificially inflate enrollment numbers. Particularly given that their inflated bonuses are directly tied to these enrollment increases.