Keeping the lid on tight in Kendall County slayings
Florence Smith reports on Kendall County State's Attorney Dallas Ingemanson pressuring sheriff Thomas Usry and Acting Coroner William Dunn to issue only controlled statements after a multi-victim murder in Morris. Officials restricted details, while deputies guarded the courthouse and photographers faced new limits on facial shots. Ingemanson defends reporting control as necessary to protect the prosecution.
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Yorkville
Kendall County
Dallas Ingemanson
Morris Daily Herald
Thomas Usry
William Dunn
Ingemans
Ingemunson
Usry
Kendall
Reimann
Morris
Everett McKeown
Dunn
Ingeminson
Newark High School
C. Robert Oshe
Thomas Harold Beebe
Mokena
Sherry Lynn Armbrust
Lockport
Grove Forest
Seward Township
Grundy
W. Clark Davis
Emma C. Miles
Minooka
Charles Robert Turner
Turner
Robert Malmquist
Illinois Security Hospital
Chester
Grundy County
U.S. Supreme Court
Arthur J. Goldberg
Florence Smith
Grundy County property assessments rise by 22 million
Grundy County total assessments jumped to 276,368,380 in 1972 from 254,257,160 in 1971, an about 8.5 percent increase driven by a shift of machinery and equipment from personal property to real estate as the state extends real property listings by 1979. Industrial areas Goose Lake and Aux Sable show large land value gains as personal property declines.
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Grundy County
Milton Carlson
Carlson
Illinois
Goose Lake
Aux Sable
Grundy Townships
Goodfarm
Grundy
Vienna
Norman
Nettle Creek
Mazon
Wauponsee
Morris
Garfield
Greenfield
Maine
Braceville
Highland
Erienna
Saratoga
Felix
Saratoga Township
APSA Relocation Prompts $25.6 Million Area Payroll Loss
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant spokesman Ralph Shupe says the consolidation of APSA and the Army Munitions Command will push area payroll losses above 25.6 million as 2000 Joliet civil servants face transfers to Rock Island. The move creates 736 new jobs at Ft. Sheridan and Rock Island. Loss estimates cover towns like Joliet, Wilmington, Morris, Elwood, and Kankakee with Joliet bearing the largest share at 10.1 million for 765 workers.
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Ralph Shupe
Joliet Army Ammunition Plant
Ammunition Procurement and Supply Agency
APSA
Army Munitions Command
Joliet
Dover
N. Y
Weapons Command
Rock Island
Armament Command
Rock Island Works
Shupe
Army
Hampton Roads
Ft. Sheridan
Illinois
Associated Press
Coal City
Morris
Gardner
Dwight
Wilmington
Elwood
Kankakee
Bradley
Inmate guard attacker identified at Stateville prison
Joseph Coughlin joined Illinois Corrections as director while Warden John Twomey oversaw the case. Stateville guard James Zeiger, 43, was stabbed by inmate Paul Goffman, 38, who pushed him 40 feet to a concrete floor. Goffman, jailed for robbery, sparked fears of security lapses as 1900 inmates remained under routine. Guards union locals seek a meeting with Gov. Walker to press for tighter security.
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Stateville Penitentiary
James Zeiger
Paul Goffman
Chicago
Vernon Reavis
Zeiger
Stateville
Stateville Guards’ Union
Municipal Employes Union
Daniel Walker
Will County grand jury indicts man for New Year’s Eve Joliet murder
Will County grand jury indicts Joseph Wright, 22, for murder in the death of Felipe Guitterez, 28, following a dispute over a minor traffic mishap on a Joliet street New Year’s Eve. Also indicted was Ralph Bell, 19, for attempted murder and armed robbery in a Joliet private club holdup and gunfight, during which police killed Joseph Harber, 30, of Elgin.
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Joliet
Ralph Bell
Elgin
Joseph Harber
Bell
Link 600 deaths with flu epidemic
CDC reports 639 pneumonia and influenza deaths in the week ending Jan. 6 across 122 cities, with delayed reports likely reducing totals. California shows a major English influenza outbreak, notably around the San Francisco Bay area, as 57 deaths occur in early January.
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Atlanta
National
Center For Disease Control
New York City
CDC
Robert J. Rubin
California
James Chin
California Health Department
Berkeley
Califor
Nia
San Francisco Bay Area
Central
Chin
Iowa
New York
Maryland
Hawaii
Arizona
Colorado
Kansas
Texas
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Tennessee
Illinois
Washington
New Jersey
Weather blamed for record multi death fires in 1973 start
National Fire Protection Association reports 44 deaths in 13 fires from Jan 5 to 7, with 18 children among the victims. NFPA president Charles S Morgan calls it a tragic start and says multi death fires account for about 9 percent of life losses. bitter cold across much of the country is cited as a key factor.
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Boston
United States
National Fire Protection Association
International Fire Safety Organization
NFPA
Charles S. Morgan
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U.S. Army
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