The Illinois State Police on Friday afternoon released 1,086 pages of its investigatory files in the case of former Rock Island County State's Attorney Jeff Terronez.
The release, a response to long-standing and long-denied requests from Quad-Cities media outlets, comes 10 days after Mr. Terronez resigned from office and pleaded guilty to one count of delivering alcohol to a minor.
An additional 1,000-plus pages are still being reviewed by the state police in advance of their release. These records were under court seal until earlier this week, said Suzanne L.Y. Bond, interim chief legal counsel for the state police in a letter accompying the released files.
The files released today have numerous redactions (blacked out information), many of them having to do with personal identifiers of witnesses and of people peripherally involved in the investigation. A substantial narrative remains, a quick look at the documents indicates.
The document entitled "Redacted Pages 2113-2140.pdf" is a summary of the case as it stood on 02/08/2011.
Today is Wednesday, May 16, the 137th day of 2012. There are 229 days left in the year.
1862 -- 150 years ago: Those children's hoop skirts and a fine lot of knitting cotton have arrived in the stores of our city.
1887 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island fire department is planning its annual reunion and dancing party at the armory on May 26.
1912 -- 100 years ago: A Belgian monoplane has arrived here for an exhibition on Sunday in Exposition Park, Rock Island.
1937 -- 75 years ago: More than 400 boys are registered for the annual free learn-to-swim-classes at the YMCA according to L. V. Burch, boys work secretary at the Y.
1962 -- 50 years ago: Mrs. Isado I. Katz and her daughter, Miss Judith Katz, Rock Island, will present the program Saturday at the annual luncheon of the Woman's Club of Rock Island, to be held at 12:30 p.m. in Memorial Christian Church parlors. Featured will be dramatic highlights from Broadway plays. The mother-daughter duo have had extensive experience in such presentations and have given programs for varied audiences.
1987 -- 25 years ago: Thirty-one Moline High School student bakers showed up for class Thursday with flour, pie-filling and measuring cups in hand as hopeful entrants in the school's Tenth Annual Pie Baking Contest. The student bakers, mostly from foods and nutrition and independent living classes, sweated over a hot baking oven on an unusually humid morning. The heat didn't dampen the bakers' eagerness to win the blue ribbon for best pie, but it did put a dent in more than one meringue. Eleven boys and 20 girls