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State: More than $2M in unemployment benefits went to inmates

SPRINGFIELD (MCT) — More than 1,100 people have collected nearly $2 million in unemployment benefits while they were in county jails or state prisons, including $43,000 that went to a person in the Cook County Jail, a state agency said Tuesday.

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