Editorial: big state issues overshadow southern suburbs
A late session harvest leaves the southern and southwestern suburbs with key bills at risk. Topics include the Robbins incinerator subsidy, MWRD restructuring, I 355 extension, and shifting governance for Governors State University. The piece faults rushed legislation, calls for local control, and notes pay cuts and political clashes.
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Chicago
Robbins
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
MWRD
Bolingbrook
New Lenox
Peotone
Board of Governors
Governors State University
Senate
Board of Regents
GSU
Lenox
General Assembly
Courtroom drama in Markham as Simpson defends himself
Reporter watches the Robert Simpson murder trial in Room 108 of the Sixth Municipal Branch. Simpson, accused of fatally shooting Barbara Lindich during a 1992 armed robbery, acts as his own lawyer amid sealed audience rows and aide-assisted evidence handling. Ballistics and fingerprint experts testified while the jurors consider conviction and possible death penalty.
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Cook County Circuit Court
Markham
Room 108
Criminal Courts
Chicago
Robert Simpson
Simpson
Barbara Lindich
Fairway Finer Foods
Glenwood
Lindich
Simson
Ilinois
Floods prompt calls for more flood control in southern suburbs
After record downpours drenched communities and Deer Creek flooded in Ford Heights, engineers warn hundred year storms recur far more often than once a century. They cite Deep Tunnel, smaller reservoirs, and plans for Thorn ton and McCook as key projects costing about 450 million dollars, urging continued funding and upgrades to sewer systems and flood plains.
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Deer Creek
Ford Heights
Water Reclamation District
Cook County
Material Service Division
General Dynamics Corp
Thornton
McCook
O'Hare International
Bloom Township taps hint at old drama in new clash
Marge Settzner recounts a recent township board meeting brawl under Supervisor Robert A. Grossi mirroring the 1970s power struggle with critic Charles Dieringer. The piece recalls past tape recordings, media tension, and former allies now in trouble, framing Grossi’s current image as a public official.
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Marge Seltzner
Bloom Township
Tme
Bob Grossi
Bobby Grossi
Robert A. Grossi
Grossi
Ray Bruno
the Star
Isr Ossi
Bruno
Star Newsroom
Township Hall
Dieringer
Paula Klein
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National Newspaper Associationlinois Press Association AB
Norman A. Rosinski
Mont and Publier
Lester G. Sons
Joanne M.zerkel
Suburban Newspapers of America
Northern Illinois Newspaper Association
Tom Houlihan
Tome
Nature
Little Calumet
Cook
Will County
Illinois
Highway Department
Jesaay Dieringer
Gross
Harold
Butch” Brown
Chicago Heights
Brown
Leventually
TownSnip Hall
Donald “Ducker
Prisco
South
Marion
Large Settzner
Far
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