Deneen calls June 14 special session for waterway bill
Illinois Governor Charles S. Deneen issues call for a special session of the General Assembly to begin June 14 in Springfield to enact deep waterway legislation from Lockport to Utica and to finance it with bonds. The move aims to advance the Johnson bill and split political opposition amid broader fiscal and public safety topics in the capital.
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Forty-seventh
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Utica
Charles
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City Council Debates Longs Plan On Telephones And Banks
City Council considers a report on automatic telephones and a long awaited ordinance to supervise private banks. Alderman Long pushes leases on lake shore lands to prove city ownership and potential compensation for fill ins. Young named health commissioner.
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Long
B. J. Arnold
Sanitary District
Commissioner of Public Works
Madison Street Bridge
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Judiciary Committee
City bill voids without appropriation for judges' aides
The omnibus bill funding assistants to the judges becomes void if no appropriation is provided. Chicago downtown hosts eighty three light manufacturing buildings, ten in deplorable condition, with an architectural firm from Holabird & Roche expected to join the Oak Forest project inspection alongside the county architect Paul Gerhardt. The Tunnel Company asserts 20 000 automatics are in service, with thousands more claimed. Alderman Long seeks consolidation with the Chicago Telephone Company if the ordinance is not fulfilled.
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Oak Park
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Illinois State Horticultural Society
Illinois Live Stock Breeders’ Association
Seyferlich
Harrison
New York
Newark
Oak Forest
Holabird & Roche
Paul Gerhardt
Tunnel Company
Alderman Long
Chicago Telephone Company
Long
Redistricting plans for six North Side wards move toward adoption
Aldermen have agreed on new boundaries for wards twenty one through twenty three and plan to submit the measure to the Elections Committee next Tuesday. Each ward would house about sixty three thousand residents with pledges to back the plan, and boundaries run along Lake Michigan and major streets from river to lake and back, detailing routes along Sedgwick Wells Sedgwick Wisconsin and Racine avenues.
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Twenty-second Ward
Wisconsin Street
Larrabee Street
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Racine Avenue
Clybourn Place
Twenty-third Ward
the Lake
Addison Street
Ashland Avenue
School Street
Lincoln Avenue
Halsted Street
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