Pace issues new express bus passes
Pace, the suburban bus agency, approves a new commuter card for riders who frequent 17 express routes. The pass costs 49 dollars per month for unlimited travel starting September 1, covering routes 391 395 833 837 and 890 among others. A current 39 dollar monthly pass remains available for regular routes with 20 cents extra per express trip, Pace spokesman Blaine Krage said.
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West Suburbs
United Parcel Service Office
Hodgkins
CTA
95Th Street
Chicago
UPS
Joliet
Naperville
Pace Express
Blaine Krage
Suburban districts win technology grants totaling nearly 2 million
Eighteen south suburban districts secure Illinois State Board of Education Technology Literacy Challenge Fund awards for the next school year. Grants range from 45 000 for Lincoln District 156 to 180 000 for Crete Monee District 2010 with partnerships and allocations across Bloom 206 Rich 227 and Chicago Public Schools distributing 4 5 million among 50 schools. The program aims to train teachers to use computers and the Internet, connect classrooms to the Internet and provide up to date computers. Ninety nine districts received grants this year.
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Lincoln
Calumet City
Crete-Monee
Bloom Township
Rich Township
Chicago
Bloom
Chicago Heights
Dalton
Evergreen Park
Harvey
Matteson
Homewood-Flossmoor
Homewood
Brookwood
Illinois State Board of Education
County approves Clark Oil move to consolidate control rooms
Clark Oil plans a 6 million project to move six control rooms into a single 5,000 square foot building at the Blue Island refinery behind 131st Place and Kedzie Avenue. Construction to start this summer and take six months, with units linked by fiber optics to a safer centralized control room during the 18 months to two years of phased migration. Community activists support the zoning change while opponents urge closing the refinery and oppose the project.
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Blue Island
Cook County Board
Clark
131St Place
Kedzie Avenue
James Henry
County Board of Zoning Appeals
Worth
Blue Island Neighbor Committee
Blue Island Greens
Henry
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