Illinois Defense Council Fully Organized in Wartime
The Illinois Defense Council chaired by Samuel Insull is fully formed with officers and committees across food fuel conservation labor law publicity sanitation and more. The council can compel state and local agencies to aid its mandates and Governor Lowden supports its actions. An excise tax proposal would raise about 2.13 million dollars annually from corporations and insurance premiums.
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Illinois Defense Council
Samuel Insull
John P. Hopkins
J. Ogden Armour
State Council of Defense
Lowden
Council of Defense of
Illinois
B. F. Harris
David E. Shanahan
John H. Walker
Fred W. Upham
Joseph T. Bowen
John A. Spoor
B. F
House Appropriations Committee
City considers bottled beer wagon tax and license hikes
City council committees review an ordinance to tax bottled beer wagons at 50 dollars per wagon per year and raise wholesalers licenses from 50 to 100 dollars, boosting revenue by over 40 thousand annually. The measure, part of a broader liquor and gas regulation push, awaits public hearing next week.
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Krumdick
Smith and Fetzer
George Lohman
Bryan Tighe for Sheriff
A broad push from Chicago Democrats urges Bryan Tighe a leading businessman to accept the Democratic nomination for sheriff next year. Tighe a Drover National Bank director and Bickett Coal vice president is praised as a strong vote getter for the party in 1918.
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Bryan Tighe
Chicago
Tighe
Drover National Bank
Bickett Coal Company
Pike ruling opens Chicago tax lands to garden use
First Assistant Corporation Counsel Chester B Cleveland rules no statute prevents the city from allowing gardens on tax title properties. The decision follows a request by Comptroller Eugene R. Pike who offered city tax lands for gardening and will require applications for use.
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Chicago
First Assistant
Corporation
Chester B. Cleveland
Eugene R. Pike
Dailey vows full push against election crooks
Assistant United States Attorney General Frank C. Dailey arrived to oversee a renewed crackdown on vote fraud. He said there is no hushing up and that work will proceed in Indiana and other areas, with emphasis on enforcing the Sunday closing law and resisting reopening saloons. The mayor defended his stance, insisting property owners bear responsibility for tenants and that the law must stand.
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United States Supreme Court
Chicago
Hoyne
United States
Frank C. Dailey
Clyne
Mr. Dailey
Danville
East St. Louis
Indiana
United Charities Folds Hits Loan Sharks in State Fight
Charles W. Folds president of the United Charities denounces loan shark interests as parasites upon the poor and backs house bill 451 to curb usurious practices. He cites 10 000 annual aid recipients harmed by loan sharks and calls for tighter rate limits fees and state supervision to ease charitable burdens. He says the bill has been approved by the charities board and urged passage.
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Springfield
United Charities For Aid
United Charities
Mayor sticks to saloon closure ban after revocations
Nearly 100 saloons with revoked licenses will stay closed as Mayor Thompson refuses to issue licenses for places that have been ousted. The policy extends to future revocations as well.
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Thompson
Height of shoe heels debated in legislature
The House killed Rep Kirby’s bill to limit heel height to one and one eighth inches. A bill to abolish free lunches in saloons was introduced by Sen Broderick. Senate committee advanced police pension increases amid warnings of tax strain. captains and lieutenants would gain up to 200 yearly, with several senior officials also slated for higher pensions. The fire department pension changes were defeated. Public employes pension measures and county civil service bills faced mixed results. The sanitary district water power bill for Joliet remained stuck in subcommittee.
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House
Kirby
Broderick
Chicago Police Department
Senate Municipalities Committee
Detective Bureau
Hull
Barbour
Chicago Fire Department
Fire and Police
Chicago
Springfield
Sanitary District
Sanitary District of
Joliet
House Waterways Committee
Waterways Committee
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John G. Oglesby
Frank Billings
Charles H. Wacker
Victor A. Olander
John H. Harrison
Chicago Board of Aldermen
Alderman Haderlein
Donald R. Richberg
E. W. Bemis
W. G. Woolfolk
C. T. Crewery
C. F. Sims
Sanderson & Porter
Board of Education
James B. Forgan
LaVerne W. Noyes
E. B. Butler
Otto Schulz
Thorwald Johnson
Council
Fullerton Avenue
Cicero Avenue
Central Avenue
Racine Avenue
Seventy-ninth Street
Eighty-seventh Street
Devon Avenue
Western Avenue
Kedzie Avenue
State Street
Cottage Grove Avenue
Washington
Congress
City Comptroller’s Office
Garden Bureau
Earle H. Reynolds
Civilian Naval Recruiting Association
North
Michigan Avenue
B. M. Winston
Lincoln Park Board
Pike Ruling
City
Charles W. Folds
The
Edmund D. Hulbert
Merchants Loan & Trust Company
Senate
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