WVC campus housing gains via TIF funds approval
Mount Carmel city officials passed a resolution to divert leftover TIF funds to Dean Kieffer for expanding student housing near Wabash Valley College. Plans include a 6100 square foot facility with seven to nine units and 36 parking spaces to serve college sports and growing enrollment. The project awaits start date and state approvals, while other items include candidacy filings for April 2019 and a new site for the future water treatment plant.
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Wabash Valley College
Rudy Witsman
Witsman
TIF
Bill Hudson
Ill. boosts patrols for Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over
Illinois State Police and DOT join nearly 200 local agencies in a holiday crackdown from now through Jan 2 under Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over. Director Leo Schmitz cites DUI, speeding, distraction, and nonuse of seatbelts as key crash factors after last year’s Christmas weekend saw 11 deaths, four from alcohol-related crashes.
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Illinois Department of Transportation
Illinois State Police
Leo Schmitz
Weekend to early week forecast
The forecast calls for Sunday with a high near 42 and low 28 under mostly cloudy skies. Monday gets 45 by 33 with partly cloudy conditions followed by Tuesday at 44 and 37 with mostly cloudy weather.
US envoy to anti-IS coalition resigns over Syria pullout
Brett McGurk, the U S envoy to the global coalition against Islamic State, resigns in protest of President Trump’s abrupt Syria withdrawal. He had warned against defeatism and said leaving now would boost IS. The letter was sent to Secretary of State Pompeo.
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Islamic State Group
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Syria
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Trump
Mike Pompeo
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