ESDA dissolution disappoints area officials
Heather Lynn reports on the disbanding of Rich Township Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. Officials praise past service, while criticism centers on spending and management by Township Supervisor Tom Knowles. ESDA served multiple communities with volunteer members and a few paid leaders, ending after a board meeting and a resignation citing administrative problems.
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Rich Township Emergency Services and Disaster Agency
Flossmoor
Michael Williams
ESDA
Charles Corkery
George Tamer
Mark Mehochko
Board of Trustees
Peotone planners lift pens on third regional airport
Planning and design for the proposed third regional airport near Peotone will begin soon with a 2 million federal grant. The project will review five sites and develop a master plan with TAMS documenting options and forming four task forces to gather local input through June.
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Peotone
Federal Aviation Administration
Lake Calumet
Kankakee
Gary
Ind
Bistate
Beecher
Don Goff
Third Airport Alliance
TAMS
Goff
Interstate 80 corridor tax break pushed
State and local leaders urged cooperative action to guide development along the I 80 corridor amid plans for an I 355 extension and a possible west airport. Patrick Rea and William Mahar helped convene a development head, a national developer, and a regional planner at a Orland Hills gathering with about 50 attendees.
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Peotone
Patrick Rea
Tinley Park
First Chicago Bank
Rea
William Mahar
Rorland Park
Georgia
Mahar urges united front in TIF battle
State Sen. William Mahar urged intergovernmental cooperation at an I-80 Task Force luncheon in Orland Hills. He warned that without consensus among school districts municipalities and taxing bodies any proposal to create a tax increment financing district would fail in Springfield. He called for a regional approach rather than town by town.
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William Mahar
Orland Hills
Mahar
R-Orland Park
Springfield
Orland Park
Jim Smithberg
Will County
Munici
Prosecutors rest case in Chicago Heights bribery trial
In Chicago Heights, prosecutors rested the corruption case against former City officials Louise Marshall, Charles Panici, and John Gliottoni. FBI Agent Neal O Malley testified Marshall admitted in 1991 to receiving at least 7000 in bribe payments from contractors in the 1980s linked to water pipeline and meter projects. The trio are accused of extorting more than 600000 from contractors over 16 years on the City Council. trial resumes next week in the Dirksen Federal Building before Judge James Zagel.
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U.S
Chicago Heights
Louise Marshall
FBI
Neal O'Malley
Marshall
Nick LoBue
LoBue
Charles Panici
John Gliottoni
O'Malley
Panici
Gliottoni
Dirksen Federal Building
James B. Zagel
Lee Marshall
Broughton's seven decade ascent from dream to degree
Irene Broughton, a DuSable High School graduate and Governors State University alum, defied early barriers to earn a bachelor of arts degree at 71. A Chicago-born Gemini with boundless energy, she works as a social worker at Lutheran Social Services in Hazel Crest, leads memory games for seniors, and volunteers at St. Clement's Church in Harvey while supporting teen drug prevention programs. Her aunt Sylvia’s portrait still sits in her Richton Park living room as a daily reminder to value education.
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Irene Broughton
Sylvia
Richton Park
Broughton
DuSable High School
Chicago
Coffee School of Aeronautics
Harlem Avenue
Governors State University
Lutheran Social Services
Hazel Crest
Lutheran
St. Clement’s
Harvey
Ster
Dave Irene Broughton
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