Stateville staff quit amid fear and riots at Joliet Pontiac
Stateville Penitentiary Warden Ernie Morris says half his top staff quit in disgust or fear over prison conditions. He resigned after 27 years, citing weekly stabbings and extortion by prisoner gangs. Riot damage and extended deadlock have left inmates confined with limited showers and laundering. Morris compares Stateville to a zoo and notes gangs’ grip. Illinois officials describe inmates as younger, tougher, more violent.
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Chicago
UPI
Stateville
Ernie Morris
Morris
Chicago Tribune
Pontiac
Joliet
Brookfield Zoo
Charles J. Rowe
Illinois Department of Corrections
Illinois
Rowe
Toy train hobbyists flaunt pricey displays at Denver meet
At a weekend convention in Denver 350 adults chatted about expensive toy trains. Al Levin displayed $35,000 worth, saying he never had a train as a kid but indulges now. Others shared how collecting supports income or social life, while one woman joked about her husband’s obsession.
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Denver
UPI
al Levin
Baltimore
C.A. Meyer
Glendale
Calif
Illinois mud turtle eyed for endangered status under federal act
The U S Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the Illinois mud turtle as endangered and designating critical habitat in the July 7 Federal Register. The species, with a single Illinois population of about 10 at Sand Ridge State Forest Mason County, faces threats from road traffic and prairie land drainage. An Iowa population near 600 and a tiny northeast Missouri population exist. private lands and local governments remain unaffected by critical habitat. Public comment should go to the F S W S director in Washington D C.
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Springfield
Interior Department
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Illinois
Becker
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C
Food Firms Seek Greater Waste Dump Rules in MSD Sewers
About two dozen food processing firms including Campbell Soup Oscar Mayer Best Foods Hunt Wesson and Procter & Gamble urge the Metropolitan Sanitary District to lift the 100 milligrams per liter limit on waste dumped into sewers arguing the change would not raise water pollution and could be offset by plants meeting current standards while MSD officials warn of potential environmental harm.
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Chicago
UPI
Metropolitan Sanitary District
MSD
Tovers
Guthman
Campbell Soup Co
Oscar Mayer & Co
Best Foods
Hunt Wesson Foods
Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co
Corona's second murder trial starts in California
Juan Corona, once a farm labor contractor, faces a second murder trial after his life-term conviction was reversed. He will be arraigned in Fairfield ahead of the new trial as the case revisits charges that he killed 25 migrant workers in 1971 near Yuba City.
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Sacramento
Calif
UPI
Juan Corona
Corona
California Supreme Court
Fairfield
Sacramento Valley
Yuba City
Gloria
United States
Superior Court
Richard Patton
Supreme Court
Seminar on Saving Postage at Illinois Valley CC
Aug 8 seminar explains 15 cent stamp changes and current rates taught by James Owens Rockford Post Office and Wayne Cloyd Pitney Bowes rep. Registration with Donald Kolowsk TVCC at 224-6405. Ticket price 10 dollars includes lunch at Starved Rock Lodge.
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Oglesby
United States
Illinois Valley Community College
Rockford Post Office
Wayne Cloyd
Pitney Bowes Postal Machines
Donald Kolowsk
TVCC
Starved Rock Lodge
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Joseph Duffey
National Endowment For the Humanities
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Air Force
McBratney
Sandy Adams
Energy
Wildlife Service
THE
Morris Daily Herald
Morris Publishing Company
Illinois Corporation
East
Washington Street
Timothy J. West
Herald Office
Cilaik
Sun
Liberty Street
Stanley Whitebloom
Jack Guthman
Richard
Hawk
James
Owens
Grundy County
Grundy County National Bank
Julie Monson Teller
Grundy
FDIC
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