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Article: KILEY BACKERS HAVE NO PLANS TO END FIGHT | BEYOND 2000?: MILLION DOLLAR REMODELING WILL START DESPITE EFFORT TO CLOSE FACILITY FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ADULTS

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The News-Sun - Waukegan (IL)
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July 12, 1997
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WAUKEGAN -- Even as plans to close the Ann M. Kiley Center for the developmentally disabled chug along, efforts to keep the facility open are trying to keep pace. Since 1995, when Gov. Jim Edgar announced his decision to close Kiley, fewer than 100 residents have been transferred.

The majority of Kiley parents aren't in a hurry to move their children and according to an agreement with the state, residents can't be moved without their guardian's consent.

Under a five-year compromise plan, the state has until the year 2000 to find homes for the remaining 332 residents.

Fifty or so residents were moved to other facilities this spring, and the state wants to move 72 more elsewhere by next ...

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