Jobs Saved at South Suburban Council on Aging
Peggy Shaw reports South Suburban Council on Aging workers in Harvey learned which 13 payroll positions will remain, including seven federally funded posts and five National Black Caverns staff. The Area Agency on Aging in Chicago plans to pay by early next week, while an audit of council expenditures continues and the director's whereabouts remain unknown after his June disappearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peggy Shaw
South Suburban Council On Aging
Harvey
Cook County
Area Agency On Aging
Chicago
Thornton
Bremen
Calumet
Lexington Avenue
Jones
Council
Suburban flood relief projects advance with funding approval
US Representative George O'Brien praised a funding allocation from the US Soil Conservation Service for flood relief in the Little Calumet area. Plans for reservoirs in Tinley Park, Lansing-Lynwood, and Markham-Harvey advance toward bids, with quarry site negotiations and multi-year construction timelines. Local leaders expect reservoirs to double as recreation centers while competition for national funds remains intense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwell
George O'Brien
Rfourth
Peters
Soi Conservation Service
Obrien
Tinley Park
Lansing-Lynwood
MSD
Markham-Harvey
Thornton
Material Service Corporation
Frank Dalton
O’brien
US House
O Brien
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Little Calumet
Housing policies target minority access in Suburban suit
The South Suburban Housing center and nine municipalities face a suit from Realtors over bans on for sale signs and data reporting rules. The centers allege a coordinated plan to limit minority access to housing at 10 to 20 percent targets, with various ordinances and programs echoed by legal groups and cooperation among communities. Hazel Crest officials defend programs as nonrestrictive, while legal groups prepare further cases and model ordinances for intergovernmental cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Forest
Housing ‘Center
South Suburban Housing Center
Hazel Crest
Prosser
Housing Center
Fair Housing Legal Action Committee
Legal Action Committee
Public Interest
District approves four new teachers for 1984 85 year
District 227 board approves contracts for Constance Boyle Craig Kirsch Ward Murphy and a fourth teacher for the 184-85 school year. Boyle will teach math at East campus Kirsch will join language arts at South campus Murphy will teach business at South campus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constance L. Boyle
University of Chicago
Thomas Jefferson Junior
Woodridge
Craig A. Kirsch
Grinnell College
St. Callistus School
Columbia College
Chicago
Iward P. Murphy
The
University of Wisconsin
Marist High School
Geneva High School
Geneva, I
Midwifery charges spark debate in Illinois case
Kathy Busch and Laura Natalie, both charged with practicing midwifery and medicine without a license, argue the crackdown harms consumers. The cases stem from a Bourbonnais stillbirth, with prosecutors saying the action targets unlicensed practice, not the death itself.
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Michele Horaney
Chicago Area
Riverdale
Kathy Busch
Kankakee County
Laura Natalie
Chicago Heights
Natalie
Kankakee
Busch
Olympia Fields Osteopathic Medical Center
Ron Gerts
Ilinois Department of Registration and Education
Park Forest to Get HUD Funding for Fair Housing Program
Park Forest will receive up to 72,200 from HUD to launch a cooperative program aimed at reducing housing discrimination and expanding racially integrated living options in the south suburbs. The effort includes education for blacks on housing choices in the Chicago region and outreach to whites about open housing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Seltzner
Park Forest
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
George O Brien
Chicago
Office of Community Relations
Kathy Cardona
Ms. Cardona
Matteson resident named to township senior services job
Betty Rosenberger of Matteson was named coordinator of Rich Township senior citizen services by the township board on Monday, filling the post left by Vivienne Turner who retired last month. Rosenberger has served as senior field representative in the Park Forest office. The board also set guidelines for a new employee education program with 66 percent tuition support up to 250 per semester and 750 per year, and planned bids for additional computer equipment with James D. Brown drafting specs. The 1984 audit was reviewed with Skinger and Skinger of Matteson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Rosenberger
Rich Township
Township Board of Trustees
Vivienne Turner
Rosenberger
Matteson
Park Forest
Dewey Helmick
James D. Brown
Skinger
Residents plan series of Woodgate Glenridge and other area meetings
The article details a string of community meetings for Woodgate, Glenridge, Cricket Hill, Creekside, Old Matteson, Lincoln Terrace, and Applewood Oakwood residents with dates in August and September. It also notes Applewood Oakwood Homeowners association seeking a for sale sign ban, a new nine member committee, a selling experience register, a door to door non solicitation drive, and enforcement changes to the village fair housing ordinance data keeping provisions.
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Woodgate
Woodgate School
Glenridge
Cricket Hill
Leiden Prairie School
Creekside
Marya Yates School
Old Matteson
Lincoln Terrace
Village Hall
Applewood
Oakwood
Community Center
Gro‘mala
Applewood-Oakwood
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Council On Aging
Edward Schenk
Council Board of Directors
Schenk
Mary Johnson
Cal
Homewood Village
Bloom and Rich
Purdue University
Indiana
Central Junior High School
Steger
Volcano House
Kilauea Crater
Hawai
Ms. Busch
Bourbonnais
David Stewart
Illinois
Mariann Tompson
Alternate Birth Crisis Coalition
Ilinois Alliance of Midwives
Ms.Tompson
Arizona
Oregon
Wyoming
North Dakota
Gerts
Tinos
ICT
Country Club Hills
Mark Wager
Scott Jacobek
Vollmer Road
Central Avenue
Jerry Marmozewicz
Township Senior Services
Podiatrist
Ingrid Gentile
Flossmoor
Vollmer
Chicago Road
Servicemaster Park Forest Inc
South Park
Waaxs
Raion
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