Water system change at Saratoga Tower to move softening to seventh floor
Grundy County Housing Authority plans to move the water softening equipment from the first to the seventh floor at Saratoga Tower to fix a HUD oversight. The $6,000 to $7,000 project will require a crane and may be funded via HUD modernization grants.
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Saratoga Tower
Tracy Adcock
Grundy County
Adcock
Westinghouse
Joliet weighs Joliet Grundy water impact today
The Joliet City Council meets to discuss the effect of Grundy County industrial growth on Will County water supply. Clark Beitz will answer questions as Joliet shifts plans from wells to the Kankakee River sooner than the 25 year estimate to avoid dual capital costs and potential legal issues.
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Joliet
Grundy County
Will County
Clark Beitz
Kankakee
Commission
Five-car accident on river bridge injures Bensenville woman
A grain truck being towed across the Illinois River Bridge at Morris rolled back and struck a car driven by Joyce Berg 19 of Bensenville. Berg was admitted for observation with minor injuries. The wrecker driver, Michael Perkinson 23 of Piper City, was cited for unsafe equipment. No other injuries reported.
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Bensenville
Illinois River
Morris
Joyce Berg
Morris Hospital
Max Babcock
Michael Perkinson
Piper City
Miss Berg
Michael Ugorek
Crystal Lake
Richard Reitz
Gilman
Perkinson
Babcock
Kemnett Standard Station
GMC
Ellery Perkins
Chatsworth
Weather Update From Dresden Island to Morris
Forecast says tonight partly cloudy with a low of 5 to 12 degrees. Wednesday on the north will be mostly sunny and colder with highs in the 20s. Monday’s high at Dresden Island Locks and Dam reached 10 degrees and the low -13. At 7 am today the temperature was -3 and by 11 am in downtown Morris it was 19 degrees.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Mrs Hugo Avalos named to statewide library post
At the Morris Public Library Board meeting Mrs Hugo Avalos was named to the executive board of the trustee section of the Illinois Public Library Directors Association. She serves as president of both the Bur Oak Library System Board and the Morris Public Library Board.
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Hugo Avalos
Morris Public Library Board
Illinois Public Library Directors Association
Avalos
Bur Oak Library System
Carson Robinson
C & C Roofing Co
Gary Schultz
Morris Business and Professional Women's Club
Schultz
Debbie Trotter
Grundy County
Seneca Unit District Appeal Denied by State Official
Dr. Joseph Cronin the State Superintendent of Schools upheld Dr. Joseph Mini's denial of Seneca's unit district petition. The decision affects Seneca Grade School Seneca High School Milton Pope Grade School and portions of Ransom and Nettle Creek. Local boards indicated plans to appeal Cronin's ruling.
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Seneca
Joseph Cronin
Joseph Mini
Mini
LaSalle County
Cronin
John F. Nolan
Seneca Schools
Seneca High
Milton Pope
Ransom
Nettle Creek
Seneca Grade
Dr. Mini
LaSalle County Schools
Trustee questions legality of Channahon's operation
Village board probes powers lacking an administrative ordinance. Trustee Markstrom reports illegal policing and appointments, cites seven year terms, and notes police actions raise civil liberty concerns. Action: hire city attorney to review ordinances and report next meeting.
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Channahon
George Markstrom
Markstrom
Purdue University
George Washington University
Illinois
Channahan
Zoning Board of Appeals
Planning Commission
Steve Ritter
Fishburn
Dennis Pond
George Mahoney
James Welch
Atty. Mahoney
Surgery today for injured policeman Suddarth
Policeman Thomas Suddarth underwent surgery at St Joseph Hospital Joliet for a left leg injury from a Saturday night fall. Doctors expect recovery to exceed his prior condition, with about three weeks in hospital and several weeks at home. He slipped on ice leaving a squad car on the north side of the police department.
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Robert Edmondson
Anderson
Planning Commission
Drago
Kenneth Malone
Robert Cook
Channahon
Will-Grundy Council of Municipalities
Manor Hotel
Illinois Environmental Agency
Fishburn
Romeoville
1975 Ltd
Suddarth
Morris Hospital
Alan Love
St. Joseph Hospital
Repair crews cut state police cable in Joliet
Crews repairing a broken water main in Joliet about 8 am cut an underground telephone cable at District 5 State Police Headquarters. Illinois Bell expected service restored near midnight. Cpl. John Vojtesak said calls were rerouted to Lockport Police Department and relayed to District 5 by radio. Radio communications were not affected.
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District 5
Joliet
Illinois Bell
John Vojtesak
Lockport Police Department
Vojtesak
Charge suspect in Kankakee murder case
Sheriff says James Faulkner Jr. 24 of Kankakee was arrested and charged in the killing of City Controller Donald Snyder. Faulkner held without bond. 13 investigators interviewed 90 people as evidence was gathered. The arraignment was planned for Monday after the Sunday arrest.
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Kankakee
Ill
UPI
Larry Hildebrand
James Herman Faulkner Jr
Donald Snyder
Hildebrand
Faulkner
Snyder
Hildrebrand
Illinois Bureau of Investigation
Kankakee County
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C&h Specialty
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Serena Construction
Gardner
Joseph Bickel
Vernon DeGrush
John Zerboglio
al Pilch
Burroughs
Stine
Grundy
Morris Daily Herald
Illinois Grain
Duane Olson
Arco
Chevrolet
Mike Weichen
Standard
Ugorek
Volkswagen
Reitz
Valentine
Zimmerman's Pharmacy
Illinois Valley Sheltered Workshop
JJC
Arthur Hornsby
Joseph Fancher
John Vernon Ely
Morris Woman's Club
Robinson
Fred Schaefer
Jack Allen
Carl Johnson
Don Lyons
John Maunder
Atty
John Hynds
Robert Macdonald
Commonwealth Edison
LaSalle Station
Brookfield Township
Lawrence Studio
Ritter
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn
Charles Fishburn
American Civil Liberties Union
Ed Bayha
Richard Snyder
Ross DeYoung
Joliet Group
Healy, Snyder and DeYoung
Glenn Yardley
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