RTA budget remains on track despite ridership drop
The November 1997 RTA finance report shows CTA at 2.3 million favorable to budget with lower costs and higher revenues, Metra 1 million favorable, and Pace 3.2 million favorable. Finance Director Costello calls results rosy. Pace credit partly due to falling fuel prices amid earlier high costs.
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Chicago
Regional Transportation Authority
Chicago Transit Authority
Metra
Pace
Mary McDonald
Joe Costello
RTA
Costello
Finance Committee
Donald Totten
Blaine Krage
Krage
RTA Thomas
Meg
Tinley Park officials defend town in Halikias case
A federal 23 count superseding indictment broadens charges against Halikins and Connaught Corp. but Tinley Park maintains no money was lost. Mayor Zabrocki and trustees emphasize protections under annexation rules, note profits around $1 million, and stress confidence in village governance amid the widening probe into World Music Theatre financing.
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Michael Halikias
Tinley Park
Halikias
Ed Zabrocki
Halikins
World Music Theatre
Zabrocki
Hakkins
Connaught Corp
Lansing
Ken Fulton
Connaught
Greg Hannon
New World Music Theatre
Odyssey Fun World
Hannon
Tage
Duffy
Encl
Indictment expands fraud case against Halikias group
A new federal indictment names Michael Halikias and three others in 15 fraud schemes spanning 1987 to 1996. Officials seek to recover 3.5 million from properties tied to Halikias and Connaught affiliates while detailing mail and wire fraud counts, false statements, and illegal transactions.
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Michael Halikias
Hakkins
Tinley Park
Connaught
Harlem Avenue
U.S. Attorney’s
Palos Park
Ramsgate Drive
Inter-Continental Real Estate & Development
David J. Wabick
Wild Cherry Lane
David L. Heyes
Naperville
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Tinley
Pat Rea
Village Board
Rea
Zabroc
Tinley Park Villag
Midwest
United Way Crusade of Mercy
FTD
Steger Flower Shop
Chicago Road
Steger
Bartle
Western Avenue
Blue Island
Armida Florist
Ashland
Joe Orr Rd
Chicago Heights
Uptown Florist & Greenhouse
Halsted Street
Suburbs
Flowers Unlimited
Vollmer
Olympia Fields
Clemen Floris
Cary Chap
Sen ST T
159Th Street
Oak Forest
PLAZA
Western Avenue Park Forest
APC News Service
David I. Roth
Burr Ridge
Wabick
Heyes
Bristol Park
Wabick and
Hakkias
Crete
Advan
Lincoln Mall
Montgomery Ward
Lincoln Hwy
Rt. 30
Ee Avenue
Matteson, IL
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