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Speaker 1: From the WGLT Newsroom, I'm Courtney Conroy. An agency providing

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Speaker 1: legal support to immigrants in Central and Southern Illinois is

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Speaker 1: grappling with the severe reduction of a sixty-year program from

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Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. The recognition and accreditation program allows

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Speaker 1: anyone to become a DOJ rep, providing legal advice to immigrant.

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Speaker 1: The immigration Project's legal director Daniel De Winter says it

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Speaker 1: will be harder for immigrants to get the legal help

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Speaker 1: they need.

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Speaker 2: It caused

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Speaker 2: quite a bit of panic in my office, and I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure how many clients know the difference between a

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Speaker 2: DOJ rep and a legal aid, like on the face

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Speaker 2: until they're engaged with us and understand, um, the

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Speaker 1: process. The immigration Project has 30 DOJ reps.

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Speaker 1: The Bloomington Normal Economic Development Council has named an interim

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Speaker 1: chief executive officer. Tyler Cravens will hold the position while

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Speaker 1: the council does a national search for someone to succeed

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Speaker 1: Patrick Hoben. Cravens has served as chief operating officer of

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Speaker 1: the McLean County Chamber of Commerce for the last 3 years.

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Speaker 1: Cravens will continue in a limited capacity with the chamber

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Speaker 1: through a temporary arrangement.

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Speaker 1: Eastview Christian Church plans to donate its community center south

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Speaker 1: of downtown Bloomington to Home Sweet Home Ministries this summer.

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Speaker 1: The center is across the street from Home Sweet Home

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Speaker 1: Shelter Village. Eastview's lead pastor, Brandon Grant, says it makes

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Speaker 1: sense for Home Sweet Home to take over the building

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Speaker 1: to help it expand its work for.

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Speaker 1: In the unhoused, I think it's best that we would

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Speaker 1: partner with Home Sweet Home in a significant way. They

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Speaker 1: do a great job of really walking alongside of and

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Speaker 1: moving towards rehabilitation of those that are in unhoused situations.

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Speaker 1: Home Sweet Homes CEO says the nonprofit is considering multiple

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Speaker 1: ideas to use the property.

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Speaker 1: And a new documentary set to release next week takes

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Speaker 1: a look at newly unveiled information in the unsolved murder

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Speaker 1: of Jennifer Lock Miller. The Illinois State University student was

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Speaker 1: murdered in 1993, a case that led to the wrongful

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Speaker 1: conviction of her ex-boyfriend.

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Speaker 1: Beaman. Beaman was sentenced to 50 years in prison and

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Speaker 1: served it until his conviction was overturned by the Illinois

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court in 2008. WGNTV will release the half-hour true

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Speaker 1: crime special on their app for free and later post

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Speaker 1: it to YouTube. I'm