Dream engine to be purchased for Richton Park fire dept
Richton Park trustees preliminarily approved buying a $461 910 Quint fire engine a multipurpose first response unit. Fire Chief Joseph Solick said bids opened Jan 30 favored Luverne Apparatus Manufacturing after disallowing a cheaper chassis. The Quin t costs 459 910 with a $2 000 added value total.
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Richton Park
Village Board of Trustee
Joseph Solick
Luverne
Solick
Laverne
David Niemeyer
Peotone resists plan to buy airport land
Peotone Mayor Richard Benson and an airline official vow to oppose Gov. Edgar's plan to spend about 20 million dollars in fiscal 1999 to acquire 2,600 acres near Peotone for a proposed airport. Rep. Kurt Granberg and others argue the move would widen state funding for the project, while officials insist no budgeted land purchase is currently planned.
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Peotone
Springfield - Peotone
Richard Benson
Jim Edgar
Kurt Granberg
Dilhac
McGraw
Edgar
George Ryan
Penson
Reovene
Maurice Soucie
Air Transport Association
Paul McGraw
Statehouse
Matteson
Granberg
Granberg, Benson, Soucie
Ellen Feldhausen
Benson
Soucie
Matteson Police to get advanced biometric booking system
Matteson will share a $10.4 million federal grant to buy a CAPS biometric booking system that digitizes fingerprints and photos. The grant requires a $20,000 local match, with Cook County supplying equipment and installation. The system transmits data to Joliet, slashing response times from hours to minutes and aiming for operation by June.
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Matteson
Lawrence Burnson
Matteson Police Department
Ralph Coglianese
Cook County Sheriff's Office
CAPS
Bureau of Identification
Joliet
Burnson
Cook County
Prairie State College expands Lincoln Mall site
Prairie State College moves its Lincoln Mall Education Center from The Gap space to a larger area in Montgomery Ward wing. The upgrade adds two classrooms two staff offices storage and two computer labs aimed for fall with $275000 remodeling. Melling notes doubled classrooms could boost offerings and student services including occasional bookstore visits and on site supplies.
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Prairie State College
Lincoln Mall
College
College Education Center
Montgomery Ward
Joan Melling
Melling
Melling Sai
Chicago Heights
Schools face deeper cuts as extras list grows
South suburban districts strain under new funding rules and debt, with Bloom Township District 206 voters repeatedly rejecting tax hikes. The district cut the day to five periods, merged athletic teams into 13 Bloom units, and kept 17 after school clubs. Lincoln Way High School, 15 miles away in Frankfort, offers 37 after school activities and seven more sports teams, highlighting funding gaps between districts.
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Bloom Township
Bloom High School
Bloom Trail High School
Bloom
Lincoln Way High School
Frankfort
Private school parents pay high taxes for private and public schooling
A Mokena couple spends almost 10 000 dollars yearly on education, split between property taxes funding public schools and tuition at Providence Catholic High School. Nancy McBride says the 5 000 dollar tax bill irks her more than the Providence payment of 4 025 dollars.
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Providence Catholic High School
Nancy McBride
Providence
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