Village lends child safety seats to meet needs
A safety seat loan program assists motorists cited for Child Restraint Law violations. Officers may issue a compliance citation, loan a seat for up to seven days, and waive the fine if a new seat is purchased. Additional seats are funded by sponsors. IDOT and WIC provide related guidance in cooperation with the police.
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Banovich
Richard Labus
Illinois Department of Transportation
Police Department
WIC
South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association
Harvey Office
Matteson Commons TIF plan eyed by village officials
Village officials say the Matteson Commons plan benefits the area by addressing a Cicero Avenue culvert flooding problem and uses a tax increment financing structure that shares revenue only after development occurs. Trustees express cautious support amid concerns of TIF abuse and a desire to stay competitive.
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Matteson Commons
Caglianese
Cicero Avenue
Coglianese
Three car crash injures five on Cicero Avenue Richton Park
Five people were taken to area hospitals after a Friday afternoon three vehicle crash on Cicero Avenue in Richton Park. A Crete pickup rear ended a stopped car, which then hit a second vehicle from Park Forest. The pickup driver was ticketed for failing to slow to avoid an accident. The speed limit on that stretch is 50 mph.
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Cicero Avenue
Richton Park
Cicero
Laurel Avenue
Anthony Glees
Crete
Glees
Park Forest
Pulitzer Sells Southtown Daily Ends Chicago Venture
American Publishing owns 374 newspapers with Chicago and West Frankfort offices. The Daily Southtown sale marks the end of Pulitzer's Chicago area involvement after previously owning Lerner papers in northern Chicago and the Northwest Suburbs. Pulitzer operates St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Arizona Daily Star in Tucson.
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South Harlem
Chicago
American Publishing
West Frankfort
Ill
U.S
Jerusalem Post
Israel
American
Pulitzer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson
Daily
Southtown
Lerner
Northwest Suburbs
Niemeyer Highlights Richton Park Achievements This Year
Richton Park Village Manager David Niemeyer reviews yearly gains in grants from state and federal sources totaling over 60 000 for a bike path 5 200 for tree planting and a street light grant from Cicero to Governors Highway. He notes park projects funded by a 1993 tax levy including a modular unit at Glaeser Park and new benches and paths.
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Richton Park
David Niemeyer
Sauk Trail
Cicero
Governors Highway
Niemeyer
Parks and Recreation Department
Glaeser Park
Department of Conservation
Arco Pipeline
Sauk School
Glaeier Park
New Meadow Lake States
Robbins Reading Energy Incinerator
USA Waste
Robbins Incinerator
USA
Cook County
HUD
South Suburban
Area schools join bus driver drug testing consortium
New Lenox District 122 boards join a 16 district consortium to share the costs of random drug and alcohol testing for drivers and other licensed school staff. Joliet Township High School will administer the program, with 448 drivers across districts. First year costs start at 530 dollars per district and rise to 26,500 by year two.
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Lenox
Board of Education
James Troha
Troha
Joliet Township High School
Lincoln Way
Lockport
Channahon
Minooka
Beecher
Peotone
Alex Martino
Oster-Oakview
del Bitter
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Rudolph Banovich
Jade
Commons
Matteson
Emmanuel Imoukhuede
Imoukhuede
Patricia Backus
Backus
National Diabetes AY Coan
American Diabetes
Association
American Diabetes Association
By Susan DeMar Lafferty
NFPA
National Fire Protection Association
Batterymarch Park
P.O
Quincy
Lincoln Mall
Dr. Leonas
Theodore S. Leonas, JR
D.P.M. & Associates
Harlem Avenue
Palos Heights
Illinois
Indiana
Rest Haven Christian Services
Vailled Nursing Owerr
Nol Haven
Wausau
South Holland
Olla
Louis South Holland
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