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By Debra Cassens Weiss
Posted January 30, 2019, 3:42 pm CST
Many courthouses throughout the the Midwest announced closings Wednesday as an arctic blast settled on the region.
Both local and federal courthouses reported closings. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago
announced a Wednesday and Thursday closing, along with courthouses in the
Northern District of Illinois.
Also closed were federal courts in the
Central District of Illinois, the
Eastern District of Wisconsin, the Kalamazoo courthouse in the
Western District of Michigan, all but one court in the
Eastern District of Michigan, several courts in the
Northern District of Indiana, and the Pittsburgh and Erie divisions of the
Western District of Pennsylvania.
Many state courts in Chicago and suburban counties were closed, the
Chicago Tribune reported, although there were exceptions for bond hearings and juvenile detention hearings in Cook County. Some downstate Illinois towns reported closures (including
here and
here).
Several state courts also announced closings in
Michigan,
Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania,
Indiana and
Ohio.
At least one public official thinks some government bodies are overreacting to the weather. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin criticized school districts in his state for closing amid wind chills of minus 15, the
Washington Post reports. “We’re getting soft,” Bevin said in a radio interview.
But Bevin added that it’s better to err on the side of being safe. “But it does concern me a little bit that in America—on this and any number of other fronts—we’re sending messages to our young people that if life is hard, you can curl up in the fetal position somewhere in a warm place and just wait until it stops being hard,” he said.
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