Illinois lawmakers move on legalized home card betting bill
The Illinois Senate backed a bill to legalize betting on card games at private homes or non profit clubs with a House approval already in hand. The measure lacks a pot taking provision to exclude Las Vegas style casinos. Opponents warned of underage gambling and losses. The same session also advanced a ban on professional strikers, a large DOT budget debate, and several bills targeting massage parlors studded tires dog fighting and landlord security deposits.
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Ill
UPI
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Senate
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Chicago
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Cicero
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Guy Stubblefield
House Appropriations Committee
State Department of Transportation
Jack Williams
Franklin Park
Illinois
Teller, famed H-Bomb pioneer, dies at 67
Edward Teller retired from UC and Lawrence Livermore where he led world nuclear research. He warned that Russian progress could dominate if American youth abandon science. He criticized politicians and called for energy programs, receiving messages from Ford, Rockefeller, and Schlesinger.
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Livermore
Calif
UPI
Edward Teller
United States
Russia
America
Teller
University of California
Lawrence Research Facility
Nelson Rockefeller
Defense
James Schlesinger
Ford
Walker delays Board of Elections picks amid court challenge
Gov. Daniel Walker refuses to name two new members to the Illinois Board of Elections until the state Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the appointment procedure. The dispute centers on four names from legislative leaders and a May 7 move to oust Franklin Landing Jr. over tax returns.
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Springfield
Ill
UPI
Daniel Walker
State Board of Elections
Illinois Supreme Court
Walker
General Assembly
Illinois pitches secret site for 237 million coal gasification plant
Illinois officials promote a possible site for a 237 million coal gasification plant to New York peers, aiming to win a demonstration facility by select state. The site remains secret, water and coal supplies are key, with construction not before late 1976 or 1977.
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Springfield
Ill
UPI
Illinois
State Department of Business and Economic Development
New York
Coalcon
Union Carbide and
Chemico
Indiana
Kentucky
Sid Marder
B&ed Energy Division
Marder
State Environmental Protection
Division of Waterways
Department of Mines and Minerals
Bomb threat lingers after Chicago Loop explosions
Police believe a third unexploded device from the Loop bombings may be hidden in another downtown building. The FALN group claimed credit for three bombs, with two detonating Saturday injuring four. A task force hunts for the possible remaining bomb while authorities widen checks on banks and federal sites.
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Chicago
UPI
The
FALN
Mid-Continental Plaza
United of America Bank
Criminal Investigations Division
James O'Grady
O'Grady
Armed Forces of National Liberation
New York
New York City
Marriott Charged With Liquor Violations in Illinois
The Illinois Liquor Control Commission charged Marriott Corp. as a wholesaler and distributor of liquor in Illinois, saying the activity violates state law. Marriott plans to exit distributing, evidence will be presented July 16, and the firm was found to store unregistered Coors beer, which it agreed to remove.
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Chicago
UPI
Marriott Corp
Illinois
Michael Berz
Commission
Marriott
Berz
Coors
State Commission
Robbery suspect nabbed after Southgate Bank heist
Charles Robert Wallerick, 41, last living in Chicago, was charged in Monday’s robbery of the Southgate Bank at the Southgate Shopping Center in Rockford Illinois. Police say the gunman used a .45 pistol and a white bag to take about $7,000, fleeing with a witness seeing a man with a white bag behind the center. A UPI report notes an FBI agent assisted in locating him about 45 minutes later in tall weeds behind the bank.
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Rockford, Ill
UPI
Charles Robert Wallerick
Chicago
Southgate Bank
FBI
Walberick
Southgate
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