State panel funds Goose Lake Prairie reclamation project
The Illinois Abandoned Mined Land Reclamation Council announced it will fund the Goose Lake Prairie project, with an additional $400,000 approved for the effort. About 1.5 acres were recently seeded with native prairie grasses, aiming to restore land stripped since the 1930s. The project links to broader efforts in Montgomery and Staunton sites, with ongoing water quality and erosion studies and plans to transfer reclaimed lands for housing and recreation.
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State Reclamation Council
Goose Lake
Illinois
Goose Lake Praire State Park
Taylor
Goose Lake Prairie
Montgomery County
O’neal
Ogilvie Administration
Goose Lake Prairie State Park
Peabody Coal Co
Nokimis-Coalton
Springfield
O'Neal
Staunton
East St. Louis Railroad Gateway
Federal Railroad Administration
East St. Louis
Youth Conservation Corps to Run at Goose Lake Prairie State Park
Loralee Clark of Coal City and Michael Golimowski of Channahon will lead the YCC program at Goose Lake Prairie State Park starting next Monday. The project, funded by Interior and Agriculture, offers summer jobs and environmental education for youths ages 15 to 18, with two four week sessions and 24 participants.
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Loralee Clark
Ken Wenzel
Goose Lake Prairie State Park
Jugtown Rd
Miss Clark
Coal City
Mike Golimowski
Channahon
Youth Conservation Corps
YCC
Wenzel
Northern Illinois University
Herald
Michael Golimowski
Bridge St
U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture
Illinois Department of Conservation
Morton
Last rape case moved to Will County Circuit Court
An amended juvenile petition filed in Joliet A 15 year old boy faces three youths charged with the March 13 rape robbery and kidnapping in Joliet Circuit Court transfers the case to Will County for further proceedings The three juveniles are accused of abducting a victim and committing sexual assault in Joliet during the incident.
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Joliet
Weather forecasts and court transfer mix in Grundy County notes
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight with a low in the mid to upper 50s. Thursday will be partly sunny and warmer with a high in the upper 80s. Tuesday's high was 73 at Dresden Island Locks and Dam and the low 45. At 7 am it was 51 and at 10:30 am in Morris 65. A Minooka woman will be transferred to Will County Circuit Court after Grundy County State's Atty. Charles Zalar seeks jurisdiction to best show the rape occurred there. Judge Malmquist granted the move and ordered transcripts from LaSalle County juvenile records included. The 15 year old rape suspect remained jailed in Grundy County, and a second youth, Delvin Rollins, 16, Joliet, was moved to Will County last month. Martin Morrow, 16, Joliet, died May 16 while suspected in the incident.
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Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Will
Grundy County
Charles Zalar
Will County
Robert Malmquist
Zalar
James Peacock
Atty. Peacock
LaSalle County Juvenile Detention Center
Malmquist
Ottawa
Peoria Apartment Fire Injures Thirteen
In Peoria Illinois a 17 unit apartment building burned injuring at least 13 people including three firefighters a policeman and a paramedic. Two firemen William Aker and Gerry Walker both 38 were in serious condition after a butane tank on a generator exploded. Investigators seek to determine if two tenants were home or at work when the blaze started. Cause not immediately known.
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Peoria
UPI
William Aker
Gerry Walker
Morris Grade School Board awards improvement contracts
The Morris Grade School Board district 54 awarded contracts totaling 40000 for excavation, asphalt, and roofing at Shabbona Garfield and Franklin schools. Hansen Construction O'Brien Construction and C and C Roofing won bids, with concerns raised over Garfield roof drainage and repeated repairs.
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Morris Grade School
Morris
Ron Hansen
Mazon
Charles O’brien
Shabbona
Garfield
Hansen
Hansen Construction
O’brien
Garfield and McElwain
C and C
Franklin
DOT approves two million loan for Rock Island trains
Illinois DOT announces a 16.1 million railroad budget with a 2 million subsidy for Rock Island Railroad pending status of two Chicago to Peoria and Rock Island passenger trains. ICC ruling may end service if discontinues approved. fallout could reshape statewide rail subsidies affecting six passenger trains serving about 300,000 yearly riders.
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Rock Island Railroad
Illinois Department of Transportation
Railroad
Chicago
Peoria
Rock Island
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Washington, D.C
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
State of Illinois
Joliet
Illinois
Springfield
Champaign
Quincy
Dubuque
Iowa
Minooka Board Adopts 1.5 Million Budget Plan
Minooka Village Board approved a 1.5 million dollar appropriations ordinance focusing on sanitary sewer construction and plant capacity expansion from 1,500 to 4,200 people. About 600,000 of the 1 million of grant funds will aid the project, with police budget rising to 32,000 for 1978 79 to allow more hours and potential vehicle purchases.
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Minooka
Police Committee
Mondamon St
Ridge Rd
Rock Falls selects new high school superintendent
H Jack Wilt, 45, named Rock Falls Township High School superintendent effective July 1. Wilt, a former superintendent in Porta, Lowes Park, Chicago Ridge, Edwardsville and Shelbyville MO, and post doctoral student at the University of Missouri, will be paid 30000 dollars yearly. He succeeds Donald Stanton, who becomes Monmouth’s superintendent.
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Rock Falls, Ill
UPI
H. Jack Wilt
Rock Falls Township
Porta
Lowes Park
Chicago Ridge
Edwardsville
Shelbyville
University of Missouri
Wilt
Donald Stanton
Monmouth
Harrisburg tug of war cable snap injures 70 students
In Harrisburg a school tug of war attempting a world record with a 2000 foot 14 inch nylon cable ended when the rope snapped, injuring 70 students and staff. Four students lost parts of fingers, 66 needed hospital care for burns or fractures, and 150 to 200 were treated by nurses for hand burns.
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Harrisburg, Pa
UPI
Harrisburg
Marshall Layton
Pete Rekus
Janice Hicks
Betty Bogar
Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospital
Donald Burnett
John Price
Dale Roberts
Marie Lewis
Mendota Driver Killed in One Car Crash Near Harrisburg
Mendota man James E. Dutton, 41, died after a Tuesday one car crash on Illinois 13, about five miles east of Harrisburg. He became the 14th traffic death this month in Illinois State Police District 13. he died three hours after the crash at an Evansville hospital.
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St. James Hospital
St. Louis
Harrisburg
Ill
UPI
James E. Dutton
Mendota
Illinois 13
Dutton
Illinois
Evansville
Channahon Officials Open Bid for Steel Office Building
Channahon Township officials opened a bid of 19600 from Cuckler Building Center of Joliet Route 66 for an all steel office building to adjoin the current township building. The bid was tabled for consideration by the township board on Monday night and the board will reconvene at 7 p.m.
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Garfield
O’brien
Shabbona School
Cuckler Building Center
Joliet
Channahon
Channahon Township
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Litchfield
Macoupin County
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Winona
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DeKalb
Evanston
NIU
University of Wisconsin At
Stevens Point
Grosse Pointe Lighthouse
Evanston Environmental Association
Will County Circuit Court
Cafe
Liberty
Robert Engle
H. Dale Barr
Barr
Liberty St
Morris Daily Herald
DOT
Minooka Board
P.m
Rock Falls
Columbia, Mo
Pontiac
Pontiac, Ill
Freddie Lee Selmon
Ohio
Selmon
Dayton
Pennsylvania Power & Light Co
Regina Holmes
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