Baer Joins LaRouche in Illinois Governor Race Bid
Conservative Republican Steven Baer and LaRouche supporters filed petitions for the March primary. Baer resigns as executive director of the United Republican Fund of Chicago Dec. 31. Democratic LaRouche slate includes Mark Fairchild, Sheila Jones, Janice Hart, Ron Fredman, and Patricia Noble-Schenk. Fredman and Noble-Schenk face indictments in a separate Oregon case.
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Steven Baer
Lyndon LaRouche
Baer
United Republican Fund of Chicago
Jim Edgar
Burr Ridge
Robert Marshall
Maurice Horton
East St. Louis
U.S. Senate
U.S
Lynn Martin
Loves Park
Horton
Chicago
Martin
State Board
Public Aid
Susan S. Suter
LaRouche
Mark Fairchild
Sheila Jones
Janice Hart
Ron Fredman
Patricia Noble- Schenk
Fredman
Noble-Schenk
Ogle County
Oregon
Republican Party
Davenport Moves to Clear Riverboat Plan Blockages
Davenport Iowa city council declared part of downtown an urban renewal zone to condemn land needed for a 15 story hotel tied to a riverboat gambling project by Pittsburgh developer John Connolly. Bernard Goldstein holds the land option and talks with Connolly have stalled. Connolly faces triple bypass surgery in Pittsburgh with weeks of recovery ahead.
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Davenport
Iowa
UPI
Pittsburgh
John Connolly
Bernard Goldstein
Connolly
Goldstein
Holiday tragedy as stolen pickup hits shoppers killing two
In Collinsville Illinois a stolen pickup plowed into shoppers at the Farmer's Market on St Louis Road killing 15 year old Blake Wade and 37 year old Roland Cox. The driver Jose Ramon Orantes Pleitez 30 faces possession of a stolen vehicle charges with possible reckless homicide charges to follow as blood alcohol tests await results.
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Collinsville, Ill
UPI
Blake Wade
Roland Cox
Collinsville
Madison County
Randy Massey
Jose Ramon Orantes-Pleitez
Orantes- Pleitez
Belleville
Wade and
Cox
St. Louis Road
Salvation Army finds rare Krugerrand in kettle in Chicago
A South African Krugerrand deposited December 11 in a Jewel store kettle on the North Side was found and valued between 415 and 450 dollars. Donor remained unknown as in prior years with several similar coins recovered in Chicago area kettles, last year none were found.
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UPI
Salvation Army
Robert Bonesteel
Crystal Lake
Jewel
Kmart
Bonesteel
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