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Past Due: Cash-Strapped Illinois Calls in Old Fines

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This week’s Past Due looks at cash-strapped Illinois counties trying to call in old fines for offenses like speeding tickets. Some of their efforts have been criticized because they are trying to collect on cases which are two or three decades old. Illinois Public Radio's Jamey Dunn talked with Southern Illinoisan newspaper Reporter Molly Parker who talks about what types of fines the counties are trying to go after. 

That was Illinois Public Radio's Jamey Dunn talking with Molly Parker from The Southern Illinoisan about counties trying to collect on old unpaid fines.