Illinois tax battles open fall veto session in Springfield
The Illinois General Assembly starts its fall veto session focusing on taxation. Senate Revenue Committee hearings on a property tax relief plan target freezes, cycle reductions, expanded homeowner and senior exemptions, and Cook County multiplier reform.
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Springfield
Ill
UPI
Illinois General Assembly
Senate Revenue Committee
Capitol
Senate Democrats
Dawn Clark Netsch
Chicago
Senate
Philip Rock
Oak Park
Cook County
Missouri
U.S. Supreme Court
Steele and senators urge FCS action in bailout wake
Washington senators and Harold Steele urged no slackening in Farm Credit System reforms as the system faces heavy debts from the farm recession. They pressed to finish Jackson receivership costs, warned against more bailouts, and backed mergers and consolidations while Steele could lead the Farm Credit Administration. Gardner and Bertini were also nominated at the hearing.
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Washington
UPI
Harold Steele
FCS
Steele
Bush
Richard Lugar
R‘ind
Jackson (Miss
Federal Land Bank
Senate Agriculture Committee
Patrick Leahy
D-Vt
Lugar
Congress
Leahy
Princeton, Ill
The
Farm Credit Administration
Farm Credit System
Katherine Bertini
Agriculture Department
Food and Nutrition
Bruce Gardner
Agriculture
Four children found abandoned at South Side elementary school
Four hungry children aged 4 months to 4 years were found in the Evers Elementary School parking lot by a security guard. Their teenage mother, Rochelle Prater, 19, faced misdemeanor charges of child neglect and simple battery after she claimed the kids at the police station. The eldest, about three, showed welts believed from a belt. The man caring for the children disputed the mother’s account of leaving them.
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Chicago
UPI
South Side
Edwin Williams
Steve
Stacy
Tasha
Scott
Evers
Rochelle Prater
Prater
No leads in search for kidnapper in Ill case
State police reported no new leads in the abduction of Dorothy L. Quillen, 19, of Sullivan Ind, who was kidnapped at gunpoint by her boyfriend Jody Lamont James 25 of Fort Wayne Ind The FBI is assisting as a dragnet ends with the two last seen headed south on Route 1 in Crawford County It remains under investigation with authorities awaiting a vehicle sighting.
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Effingham, Ill
UPI
Sullivan
Ind
Ralph Boatman
Dorothy L. Quillen
Jody Lamont James
Fort Wayne
Boatman
FBI
Crawford County
Lake Forest College bans plastic foam campus wide
Lake Forest College in Illinois banned plastic foam products including coffee cups and carryout containers, becoming the first Chicago area college to act. The action follows a cost shift to paper products and is supported by the environmental studies program and campus groups.
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Lake Forest
Ill
Lake Forest College
Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
Food Service
Tom Ryan
Eugene Hotchkiss
League For Environmental Awareness and Protection
Interfaith Center
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Farm Credit System Assistance Board
Erwin
Farmers Home Administration
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Eller & Willey Block CO
Dixon, Ill
Dixon, Rock Falls
Sterling
Simmegar
Motorola
N. Galena
Dixon
Sun
Oregon
Medical Arts
Charmin Care Bath Tissue
Ketate
Decker
Dixon Pharmacy
Riverview Pharmacy
Ashton Drug and Decker Drug
Diascan
Alka Seltzer
Kodak
Dixon Pharmacy, Inc
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