Probing Probes Ordered on Justice Offices and Juvenile Welfare
County Judge Owens and President Ballard Dunn ordered two sweeping inquiries this week. One targets the offices of all justices of the peace and police magistrates to audit fines from speeding motorists and how proceeds were handled. The second probes every department connected with gathering detention and disposition of Juvenile Court wards amid growing complaints of treatment.
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Cook County
John E. Owens
Tatge
Justices of the Peace
Ballard Dunn
County Civil Service Commission
Sea
Owens
County School Fund
Phone Slavery and the Chicago Bell Monopoly Demands
A lengthy critique argues Chicago’s telephone system is a Bell monopoly with the Western Electrical Company as a subsidiary. It claims inflated rates, subsidized profits, and calls for municipal ownership or rate reform, citing expert reports and editorial stances urging public control over local telephones.
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Bell
Local Telephone Company
The
Western Electrical Company
Bell Company
Bell Telephone Company
Bell Telephone
Electric Company
Electrical Company
Bell Moncopoly
Ald
Herman J. Baylor
Chicago Telephone Company
Bauler
Chicago public works and utility contracts in dispute
The text outlines city plans for 500 arc lights for a sixty day test linking to 4,000 street lamps under a Sanitary District contract. Ballard Dunn leads a county civil service probe into alleged street and municipal property issues. mentions condemnation to acquire property. References to Chicago merger, outer harbor bridges, and Western Electrical Company in relation to Bell Telephone.
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Union Brook
Sanitary District
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