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A nonprofit provider for people with severe developmental disabilities is going to court against the state, arguing Gov. JB Pritzker’s Department of Human Services improperly denied it permission to build a cluster of new homes in Elgin.

The denial related to rules that restrict building multiple homes for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities next to each other, according to court documents. And the state said the provider had gotten ahead of itself in asking to build multiple community-based homes before it had successfully run one.

The organization, Marklund, argued the state had leaned on arbitrary factors to nix its request at a time when hundreds of people with disabilities are seeking homes that are integrated into ne

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