One dead 23 injured in interstate crashes
Gusting winds spread smoke from roadside brush fires as two Illinois interstate crashes killed one person and injured 23. May Arseneau, 45, of Muskegon Michigan, died at the scene in a nine car two truck crash 11 miles south of Champaign on I 57. Her husband was in stable condition. Nine others were hospitalised. A separate earlier incident on I 80 near Joliet injures 13, with 11 vehicles including a bus colliding after a brush fire. No bus passengers aboard.
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May Arseneau
Muskogeon
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Donald
Champaign
Burnham City Hospital
Rosemary Jackovich
Blue Island
Joliet
Pontiac riot trial widens as ex inmates testify
Chicago AP reports jurors hear details of the July 22 1978 Pontiac Correctional Center riot in which three guards were killed. Former inmate Robert Powell, 34, testified Tolbert jumped a guard, kicked, and stomped him. Officer Stanley Cole and others attacked as more inmates joined. Seventeen inmates indicted for murder and mob action. ten on trial now, seven to be tried later.
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Pontiac
Robert Powell
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Powell
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Danny L. Dill
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Dill
Stanley Cole
Cole
William Thomas
Launemin
Robert Conkle
Graymont
Dale Walker
Jurisdiction dispute erupts over Madison yard fire
A junkyard blaze near Eagle River drew four departments into a jurisdiction fight that lasted three hours. Traffic was halted on a nearby highway as Madison Fire Department was ordered to respond by Circuit Judge Thomas Hildebrand after State’s Attorney Don Weber sought authority to compel aid.
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Hildebrand
Mayor Byrne Considers Cabrini Green Move Safe for Kids
Mayor Jane Byrne reassures second graders at Richard E. Byrd Elementary near Cabrini Green that her safety does not threaten them. The project has seen eleven deaths and 37 wounded this year amid gang violence as Byrne moves into the 70 acre complex to quell the turmoil. The children had warned she might be killed, fearing harm from the neighborhood.
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Chicago
Jane Byrne
Cabrini-Green
Richard E. Byrd
Byrd
Cabrini Green
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