Veto delays Joliet arsenal park plan in budget clash
The presidential veto blocks funding for converting the Joliet Army Ammunition plant into a 19 000 acre national prairie park and a 900 acre veterans cemetery near Elwood. U S Rep Jerry Weller vows to resurrect the arsenal bill with Sens Simon and Moseley Braun support as budget standoff continues. Will County landfill plans also hinge on the stalled redevelopment.
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Joliet Army Ammunition Plant
National Prairie Park and Veterans Cemetery
Congress
Clinton
Arsenal
Elwood
U.S
Jerry Weller
R-Morris
Weller
White House
House
Newt Gingrich
Senate
Bob Dole
Paul Simon
Carol Moseley-Braun
Illinois
Army
Will County
Midewin National
Special County Board
Judy Bredeweg
Bolingbrook
Bredeweg
George Sangmeister
D-Mokena
Five men assault homeowners in Oakwood Avenue home invasion
Five black men in their 30s broke into a Matteson home on Oakwood Avenue around 10 30 p m last Tuesday threatening to shoot the occupants and stealing cash and jewelry valued at about 10500 Police describe two armed intruders forcing the homeowners to reveal the jewelry box while three others watched the scene One suspect described as 5 7 and 200 pounds wore a yellow and blue jacket with gray pants
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Matteson
Calumet City
Oakwood
Four South Suburban Poker Raids Net Seizures and Four Arrests
Cook County sheriff's police vice unit raided four south suburban businesses in a month long illegal gambling probe. Seized were seventeen poker machines and more than $3,000. four suspects were charged with gambling and keeping a gambling place. Primo Pizza & Pub in Richton Park yielded five machines and $1,538.50. Jan Nielsen, 38, of Crete, charged. Bill's Liquors in Markham yielded one machine and $578.25. Ray Roberts, 49, of Markham, charged. Sunset Lounge in Harvey yielded four machines and $29.50. Mary Quiroz, 39, of Glenwood, charged. Squeeze Inn in Chicago Heights yielded three machines and $873.50. Christine Bailey, 27, of Chicago Heights, charged. All four posted 10 percent of a $1,000 bond and await February court in Maywood.
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Cook County Sheriff's
Primo Pizza & Pub
S. Governors Highway
Richton Park
Jan Nielsen
Wood
Crete
Bill’s Liquors
Sunset Lounge
E. 159Th St
Harvey
Mary Quiroz
Hickory Ridge
Glenwood
Squeeze Inn
14Th St
Chicago Heights
Christine Bailey
Holbrook
Cook County Circuit Court
Maywood
State leaders fault mental health reform report findings
A court ordered two year study of Illinois mental health care faults minimal planning and restraint use at Elgin Center. It cites 48 patients and calls funding and governance failures, while officials dispute the report and defend budget gains and accreditation milestones.
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Chicago
Elgin
American Civil Liberties Union
U.S
Brian Barnett Duff
Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Benjamin S. Wolf
ACLU
Institutionalized Persons Project
Tinley Park Mental Health Center
Tinley Park
Jan Holcomb
Mental Health Association
Illinois
Jim Thompson
Ann Patla
Mental Health Agency
Patla
Edgar
Robert L. Okin
Martha B. Knisley
Aclu Okin
San Francisco General Hospital
Knisley
Wake Area
Raleigh
N.C
Okin and Kinsley
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
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Llhere
Steve
Gino
Halsted
163Rd Street
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Ilos
Steve's
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Joint Commission On Accreditation of
The
Star
MSR
Etress
Oaklawn
Glen Ellyn
Lake IN the Hills
Ry C. Miller
Wee 175Th Street
David J. Storm, D.D.S
W. Sauk Trail
Erie Mae Coto Lab
Hl. State Council of
Carol Alexander
Narses
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