Local police join for high tech firearms training system
Alsip Midlothian Park Forest Richton Park Riverdale South Holland Worth Thornton Calumet Park and Burnham pool resources to buy the FATS II simulation system. The laser video scenario training costs about 80 000 total with 825 units in use nationwide.
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Alsip
Midlothian
Park Forest
Richton Park
Riverdale
South Holland
Worth
Thornton
Calumet Park
Burnham
O'Connell
Mike Hinko
FATS
Reconstructing History Through Skeletal Analysis
Dr Anne Grauer of Loyola University Chicago presented at the Marie Irwin Community Center Homewood on skeletal remains and ancient diseases. She explained how bones reveal beauty practices, disease patterns, and care for disabled individuals across centuries, noting modern diseases repeat ancient trends.
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Marie Irwin Community Center
Homewood
South Suburban Archeological Society
Anne Grauer
Grauer
Loyola University
Chicago
Graver
Turkey
Dunning Poorhouse
Jenny Craig
Times
Humane Society
Vasacio Wastene Amay
Illness origin sought for retreat center outbreak in Frankfort
Health officials continue to investigate a sickness outbreak at St Francis of the Woods Convent Retreat Center in Frankfort affecting women from Lutheran parishes. Fourteen were transported to hospitals with nausea vomiting abdominal cramps and headaches. No food tests completed yet and carbon monoxide checks were negative.
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Will County Health Department
St. Francis of the Woods Convent
Frankfort
Vic Reato
Health Department
Reato
Mary Elizabeth
Bob Wilson
Joliet
Olympia Fields Osteopathic Medical Center
Beato
Tax break eyed to aid Western Heights theater expansion
Prairie State College Board approved a five year property tax abatement for Western Heights Theaters in Chicago Heights to finance a 500000 addition adding three more screens and new parking by razing the Mercedes Benz property. Construction begins early spring and finishes by July with tax loss to the college offset by half of the abatement benefit in years five through ten.
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Western Heights
Prairie State College Board
Chicago Heights
Michael Crescenzo
Crescenzo
Mercedes Benz
Jim ‘Troutman
Everal
Kelley
PSC
Illinois House votes quick on reform packs to send Edgar
Springfield Republicans cheer as the House completes initial action on five fast track reform packages. Illinois moves toward signature by Gov. Jim Edgar with items including tax caps in Cook County, gang and sex offender crackdowns, workers comp reforms, and education rule changes. The Senate and House pause for a week before Edgar unveils his fiscal 1996 budget, marking a swift shift in state policy.
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Springfield
Lee A. Daniels
House
General Assembly
Jim Edgar
Illinois
New
House Gop
Diane Ross
House of Horrors
Edgar
Senate
Daniels
Ilinois
Cook County
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