Public Utilities Commission of Illinois Daily Workload
The Public Utilities Commission of Illinois operates daily year round with sessions on August 9 to 12 addressing railway bond issues filings, tariff disputes, and rate cases. The Smoke Abatement Committee report opposes steam eradication in Chicago, favoring continued electrification debates and large investment costs around 200 million dollars.
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Public Utilities Commission of Illinois
Public Utilities Commission of
Illinois
United States
William L. O’connell
Walter A. Shaw
Owen P. Thompson
Richard Yates
Frank H. Funk
Charles N. Hebner
Everett Jennings
Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad Company
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company
Chicago
R. J. & P. Railway Company
Morrison Telephone Company
Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Railway Company
B, & Q. Railroad Company
R. I. & P. Railway Company
Chicago Association of Commerce
New York
Paris
Philadelphia
Tee
Reform debate highlights Joliet prison and Illinois politics
The piece argues Governor Dunne deserves credit for the Joliet penitentiary honor system while noting reforms at Pontiac and Joliet attract scholarly attention. It covers bids by Joseph Bidwell Sr for Congress, Lowden petition drives, and critiques of public office pensions and civic classes in Chicago.
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Dunne
Joliet
Allen
Ilinois
New York
Colorado
Pontiac Reformatory
W. C. Graves
Chicago
Joseph HE
Bidwell
Lorimer
Congress
Fifth
Sixth
Austin Territory
Thompson-Lowden-Lundin
Deneen
Thompson-Lowden-Lanne
Charles Henderson
University of Illinois
Robert Gault
Northwestern University
Edmund N. Allen
Kjellander taxi rate fight stirs public dispute
Residents protest Kjellander ordinance raising taxi fares while old and new rates are listed. The piece also notes upcoming 1916 primary dates April 11 and September 13 and mentions Lampert as a potential Chicago School Board candidate.
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Frank O. Lowden
James McAndrews
Thompson
Fred Lundin
Sanguine
Roy O. West
Charles 8. Deneen
M. Henry Guerin
Superior Court
Elwood G. Goodman
U. S
Edwin W. Sims
Ednared H. Williams
Mr. Williams
Delta Chi (Law
Hamiltonian
Hamilton Club
Illinois Athletic Club
Aurora
Sherman
Mann
Cook
Lawrence Y. Sherman
James R. Mann
Washington
William Hale Thompson
Republican Club
Public Life
Legislative Voters’ League
Lowden Club
Lowden
Lundin
Colonel Lowden
Thousand Islands
Edminority
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Cook County
W. H. Dunn
John W. Rainey
Joel D. Hunter
James Whalen
William J. Graham
Circuit Court
Thomas J. Hart
Pinckney
John Gerschaw
William Healey
Psychopathic
Charlotte Jackson
Miss Bartelme
Mary Miller
Mary Bartelme
Hunter
Dunn
Lane “Tech
William L. O'Connell
Public Utilities Commission