Sludge permit denial upheld by county board of appeals
The Grundy County Board of Appeals voted 5-0 to uphold the building permit denial for Soil Enrichment Materials Corp SEMCO, as sludge spread from the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago continues in Norman Township. Discussed were building permit and zoning certificate denials with potential injunction by Judge Thomas Clydesdale, while residents reported health and odor concerns and EPA standards cited as not yet defined.
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Grundy County Board of Appeals
Thomas Clydesdale
Appeals Board
Eugene Sorensen
Building and
Soil Enrichment Materials Corp
SEMCO
Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago
CMSC
Norman Township
Wilder
Sorensen
Edwin Burnham
Atty
David Root
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Harold Punke
Noble Collins
Charles McDonald
Punke
Atty, Dunn
Lyle Monson
William
Mary) Reed
Reed
Atty. Root
R. W. Trotter
Root
Trotter
William Bauer
Grundy County APO certification plan discussed at meeting
Grundy County Planning Commission reviewed requirements for becoming an area wide planning organization with HUD. They proposed increasing the commission size to nine, approving by law, and preparing master and comprehensive plans plus an open space and sewer water program.
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Grundy County
Gardner
Morris
Minooka
Coal City
Lynne Stewart
Eugene Sorensen
David Root
Sidney Carr
Commission
Farm Home Administration
Area Water and Sewer Survey
HUD
Schock
Wauponsee Township
Atty
John Black
Paul Schock
Morris Planning Commission
Illinois Weather: Warm, Partly Cloudy Across the State
The forecast calls for fair and warm conditions with 80s highs and 60s lows. Dresden Island Locks and Dam recorded 84 degrees high and 65 low, with 7 am readings at 67 degrees today.
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Illinois
Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Sun Times reveals 1963 Diem negotiations and coup plans
Chicago Sun Times reports a State Department memo from August 1963 urged overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem if he negotiated with North Vietnam. The paper cites Nixon era Pentagon documents and memos showing Kennedy aides, notably Roger Hilsman, weighing a coup to remove Diem while preserving power structures.
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Chicago
State Department
Ngo Dinh Diem
North Vietnam
Chicago Sun-Times
James P. Hoge
Pentagon
New York Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
John F. Kennedy
Diem
Roger Hilsman
Dean Rusk
U.S
Ngo Dinh Nhu
Sun-Times
Hilsman
United States
Nhu
National Security Council
Driver uses wrong license mixup leads to jail release
An East St. Louis man identified as Sam Thomas or Sam Williams faced four traffic charges after a magistrate court mix up allowed him to plead guilty to a speeding ticket issued to Robert L. Williams Jr. The speeding citation was amended to read Sam Thomas and he was given a license in his alias. The four remaining tickets stay on file in the circuit clerk’s office.
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East St. Louis
Sam Thomas
Sam _ Williams
John Clinch Jr
Sam William
T. L. Cooley
U.S. 66
Illinois
Artis William
Cooley
Sam Williams
Grundy County
Robert L. Williams Jr
Chicago
Robert Williams
David Lauer
U.S
Richard Wilder
John Clinch
Clinch
Atty
Wilder
Thomas
Sheriff's
Louisiana Blvd
E. St. Louis
License station moves to courthouse
The driver's license examining station in Morris will move this weekend to the basement of the Grundy County Courthouse. The move is temporary pending remodeling of a building across Illinois Street from the Courthouse. The station will be in the basement main hallway. rent is undetermined and a courthouse committee meeting will set terms.
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Courthouse
Morris
Grundy County
John W. Lewis
Illinois St
Earl Bingham
Bingham
EPA to Check Sludge Project in Norman Township
The EPA sanitarian will visit the Norman Township sludge project at 10 a.m. Thursday to investigate alleged odor violations. Eugene Sorenson Grundy County building and zoning officer will also be involved after a site visit. SEMCO under a 2.5 million contract with the Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District plans to move 420000 wet tons to farmland across 1300 acres in Norman Township.
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Sanitarian
Environmental Protection Agency
Norman Township
Peoria
EPA
Tom Kinkach
Eugene Sorenson
Grundy County
Soil Enrichment Materials Corp
SEMCO
Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District
Chicago
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Parklake Village
Coachlite Manor
George and
Lisbon Road
Morris Development Corp
Planning Commission
PUD
Knight
Farm Area Plan Agency
The
Board of Supervisors
Chairman Root
John T. Anderson
Karl Linnemann
Daniel Beal
Stratton Park
Drv
Morris Daily Herald
Hankali
Robert Granger
Morris Post Office
U.S. Postal Service
Liberty St
Post Office
Postal Service
Herald
the Weather Bureau
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