City plans to reclaim and rehab vacant homes in Country Club Hills
Country Club Hills Housing Authority pushes a buy rehabilitate and sell program to keep neighborhoods stable. City council backed it but stalled awaiting HUD homes. officials found none on HUD list. Heritage Bank offers a $200,000 revolving line of credit to fund purchases.
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Country Club Hills
Housing Authority
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Henrietta Turner
Heritage Bank
Forest Preserve District plans Old Plank Road Trail expansion
The Forest Preserve District of Will County seeks New Lenox support for extending the Old Plank Road Trail from Park Forest to Hickory Creek preserves on Route 30 in Mokena with phased construction starting this summer. The district owns the Penn Central right‑of‑way and will pursue federal grants for a later Mokena to Pilcher Park segment.
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Forest Preserve District
Will County
New Lenox
Park Forest
Hickory Creek
Mokena
Penn Central Railroad
Pilcher Park
Gougar Road
New Lenox Board of Trustees
Bob Hoaglund
Bruce Hodgdon
South Holland to House Day Care in New Lease Move
South Holland School District 150 approved a four month lease shift for ECHO to McArthur School starting July 1. Linda's Day Care, at McArthur for 11 years, says they were not given a promised one year notice and must vacate by June 30.
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South Holland
Board of Education
ECHO
McKinley Elementary
McArthur School
Linda’s
McArthur
Karin McCutcheon
Linda’s Day Care
McCutcheon
Linda’s Day
Orland Park Ranks No 8 in State Sales Tax Revenue
Orland Park officials consider sending the Illinois Department of Revenue report with grant requests. The village tied eighth in total retail sales tax revenue for 1994-95, generating 10.9 million dollars from July 1, 1994 to June 30, 1995, about 1 percent of the 7 percent tax. Finance director Dianne Kallina notes the rise from 10th last year and possible move past Aurora, though a 2 million gap remains to seventh place.
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Orland Park
Illinois
Dianne Kallina
Joliet
Oak Brook
Kallina
Aurora
Geese Problem Bedevils Richton Park Officials
Richton Park officials seek advice from the USDA to curb geese at Lake George noting nesting near McDonald's and repeated daily movements. Separate items include Rich Township District 227 delaying a $48,000 student ID system with plan to revisit March 5. Homewood-Flossmoor Racquet Club opens a $4.2 million facelift with a 110000 square foot facility and a week-long April 29 to May 5 grand opening.
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Richton Park
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Village Board of Trustees
Rudolph Banovich
Lake George
David Niemeyer
Banovich
McDonald’s
Board of Education
Rich Township
Harold Huang
Huang
Homewood-Flossmoor
Park District
Mike Nussbaum
Nussbaum
W. 183Rd St
Homewood
Steger mayor challenged over Tieri appointment and nepotism
Arthur B. Holecek of Steger rails against Mayor Sherman for blocking a public vote on appointing retired Police Chief Charles Tieri as the 10th village bureaucrat at $15,000 a year. He accuses nepotism and waste, noting Tieri family salaries and prior high pay for other officials, and questions the need for another appointee.
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Steger
Louis) Sherman
Charles) Tieri
Sherman
Tieri
Frank Burkey
Burkey
Arthur B. Holecek
Police and guns in reaction to a letter from Ray Ludack
In Chicago Heights Ray Ludack contests concealed weapons raises questions about public safety. He cites drunken officers and past shootings in Chicago Milwaukee and asks why citizens should not be armed and why every incident is not printed in the Star.
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Frank Jannusch
Steger
Chicago
Milwaukee
Star
Ray Ludack
Chicago Heights
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