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New legislation helps Carol Stream Park District collect full amount of tax money

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With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.

Mark Black | Staff Photographer

With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.

Mark Black | Staff Photographer

With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum money approved by voters in 2010.

photos by Mark Black | Staff Photographer

With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.

Mark Black | Staff Photographer

State Rep. Randy Ramey, left, talks with Gov. Pat Quinn Monday before a bill signing allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.

Mark Black | Staff Photographer

With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.

Mark Black | Staff Photographer

Construction continues Monday at the site of the new $18 million Carol Stream recreation center, where Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill allowing the park district to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.

Mark Black | Staff Photographer

An artist's rendering shows the new $18 million, 90,846-square-foot Carol Stream recreation center.

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Gov. Pat Quinn came to Carol Stream Monday to sign legislation enabling the park district to borrow all $37 million for park improvement projects approved by voters in a February 2010 referendum. The bill signing took place at the site of the park district's $18 million, two-story recreation center now under construction. "I think the will of the people expressed in that referendum was to build the (recreation center). It would not be fully built if we weren't able to sign this bill," Quinn said. "Folks expressed their opinion in a binding referendum and to carry out that will, the law had to be adjusted."

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    • With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.
    • With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.
    • With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum money approved by voters in 2010.
    • With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.
    • State Rep. Randy Ramey, left, talks with Gov. Pat Quinn Monday before a bill signing allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.
    • With the construction site of the new Carol Stream recreation center as a backdrop, Gov. Pat Quinn signs a bill Monday allowing the Carol Stream Park District to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.
    • Construction continues Monday at the site of the new $18 million Carol Stream recreation center, where Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill allowing the park district to fully realize all $37 million in referendum dollars approved by voters in 2010.
    • An artist’s rendering shows the new $18 million, 90,846-square-foot Carol Stream recreation center.
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