Morris Planning Commission backs 196 unit PUD apartment project
The Morris Planning Commission approved revised final plans for a 196 unit rental complex on a 15 acre site west of Hi Park. The 100 percent federally financed PUD targets residents earning 6000 to 12000 dollars annually. Only 39 of the 196 units are supplemental rentals, per a commission clarification.
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Morris Planning Commission
Hi-Park Subdivision
Chicago
Atty
Robert Golding
Irving Garrick
Morris Fire Department
Robert Drake
Austin Bollen
Golding
Allen Kracower
Kracower
Richard Bauer
Arthur Hornsby Jr
Ange Hansen
Robert Gilbertson
James Crupi
Angie Patti
Bollen
Parklake Village
George St
Lisbon Road
Planning Commission
Patti
Hansen
Memorial Day Plans Formulated by Seneca American Legion
Kasal Post 457 of the American Legion met to set Memorial Day services for May 29 at Centennial Park. Regroup at 9:30 a.m. at the north end market for a downtown parade to the park. Rev. Edmond C. Blough to deliver the memorial address. A nominating committee for June elections was formed with Eddie Thorson, James Walters and Marion Osborne.
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Seneca
Kasal
American Legion
Legion
Gene Olson
Centennial Park
Legionnaires
North End
Edmond C. Blough
St. Patricks Church
The
Eddie Thorson
James Walters
Marion Osborne
Weather shifts from spring to summer across Illinois
Warm, sunny conditions spread over Illinois with forecast of a fair night in the mid 50s. Thursday expected to stay mostly sunny and warm with highs in the lower 80s. Reports from Dresden Island Locks show Tuesday high 75 and low 46, Morris records at 7 am 54 and 11 am 73.
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Chapin
Division Sts
Herald
Illinois
Dresden Island Locks and Dam
Morris
Compromise on School Busing Plan Reached in Congress
House and Senate conferees agreed on a compromise delaying desegregation busing orders for 18 months as part of a broader higher education bill. The deal softens antibusing amendments and sets a January 1 1974 expiration, with civil rights leaders opposing any court limits on desegregation.
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Washington
House
Senate
National Institute of Education
Edison Plans Collins Station 2.5 Million KW Oil Fueled Plant
Commonwealth Edison Co announces a 2.5 million kilowatt plant named Collins Station to be built about 1.5 miles west of Dresden, using five 500000 kilowatt units. The oil fired station with a cooling lake will cost over 500 million dollars and begin service from 1976 to 1978.
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Commonwealth Edison Co
Dresden
Edison
J. Harris Ward
Collins Station
Illinois River
Ward
Illinois Commerce Commission
Illinois
Wallace’s condition after Wallace shooting shows partial paralysis but improvement
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace remains partially paralyzed from the gunshot wound yet shows progress. A medical bulletin notes he spent a comfortable night, is alert and reading, with paralysis of the legs unchanged while spinal cord injury awaits surgical clarity. Bremer remains jailed on federal bail after the shooting following Wallace’s presidential primary wins in Michigan and Maryland.
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Silver Spring
George C. Wallace
Michigan
Maryland
Alabama
Joseph F. Schanno
Wallace
Washington Post
Billy Joe Camp
Post
Cornelia
Charles Snider
Arthur Herman Bremer
Milwaukee
Baltimore County
Wallace Captures Two Presidential Primaries in Michigan and Maryland
Wallace won 51 percent in Michigan and 40 percent in Maryland as Humphrey and McGovern trailed. Nixon led Republicans in both states. The outcomes, aided by sympathy for a wounded candidate and crossovers from Republicans, strengthen Wallace’s push toward a contested Democratic Convention.
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George C. Wallace
Michigan
Maryland
Hubert H. Humphrey
Wallace
George McGovern
McGovern
Humphrey
South Dakota
Nixon
Fifth Graders Tour EJ&E Engine Near School
Robert Gaza a Minooka Elementary teacher organized a train visit as EJ&E engine No 445 four box cars and a caboose stopped near the classroom. Ninety fifth graders toured the engine explored the caboose and blew the whistle then watched a railroad safety film.
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Minooka Elementary School
Ej&e
Herald
Robert Gaza
Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern Railroad
Trans
E.j.&e
Gaza
Teachers file amended complaint over Braceville case
Miss Jane Helme and Miss Jacqueline Wicks sue the Braceville Elementary School board in Grundy County Circuit Court. Attorney Thomas C. O'Brien seeks timely extension after Judge Malmquist allowed 28 days for an amended complaint following dismissal of the original suit for a theater workshop incident involving an obscene record. The defense argues the motion lacks proof of need for extension. no ruling yet.
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Jane Helme
Jacqueline Wicks
Board of Education
Braceville
Grundy County
Thomas C. O'Brien
Chicago
Atty. M. E. Hutson
Monticello
Robert W. Malmquist
Atty. O'Brien
Inquest Scheduled Into Death Of Murrell Chapman
An inquest will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at Reeves' Funeral Home in Wilmington into the death of Murrell Chapman 34 of Willow Springs. Chapman drowned April 27 when his boat went over the dam in the Kankakee River at Wilmington. Firemen recovered his body eight days later about three miles from the dam near O'Brien subdivision. A companion Miss Deborah Paty 19 also of Willow Springs was recovered from the river by firemen.
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Reeves’ Funeral Home
Wilmington
Murrell Chapman
Willow Springs
Chapman
Kankakee River
O’brien
Deborah Paty
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