Sometime early this fall, a team armed with specialized document-scanning equipment will descend on the Marshall County Courthouse to transform 350,000 pages of property records dating to 1831 into digital form.

The scanning will be part of a $353,000 larger overall process in which Iowa-based Fidlar Technologies will also replace computer hardware and software in county clerk and recorder Jill Kenyon’s office, eventually resulting in expanding and overhauling much of the way that business gets done there.

Republican state Rep. Dan Ugaste is taking note of Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently moving to sign a bill into law that has increasingly grown popular with residents across the state during the age of COVID-19.

“The telehealth expansion bill passed by the General Assembly this spring was signed into law, increasing access to care for Illinoisans,” Ugaste recently posted on Facebook.

The Illinois General Assembly is a master of approving phony reform bills.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker last week continued his usual practice of signing whatever legislation the General Assembly puts in front of him.