Chicago unveils Miro sculpture at Daley Center
More than 2,500 attended the unveiling of Joan Miro’s gift to Chicago a 40 foot crowned woman sculpture in bronze and concrete south of Daley Center Plaza in the Loop. Mayor Byrne removed the covering on Miro’s 88th birthday while the artist, ill in Mallorca, could not attend. A citizens committee raised 250 000 to match city funds for materials.
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Joan Miro
Miro
Jane M. Byrne
Daley Center Plaza
Loop
Majorca
Groups press Illinois coal tied pollution loan limits
A coalition of environmentalists public interest groups and mine workers urged that state aid program loans be limited to projects using Illinois coal. The bills would constrain Coal Development Bond Act and Environmental Facilities Financing Authority funds to Illinois coal powered projects, aiming to curb funds going to nuclear and oil fired plants.
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Springfield
Illinois
Douglas N. Kane
Kane
Environmental Facilities Financing Authority
Citizens For A Better Environment
The
Illinois Environmental Council
Illinois League of Women Voters
Illinois South Project
District 12
United Mine Workers
Illinois League Women Voters Convene in Wisconsin Protest
The Illinois League of Women Voters plans its 40th state convention outside Illinois at George Williams College Williams Bay Wisconsin. The event runs Friday through Sunday and targets Illinois failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Wisconsin has already approved the ERA.
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Chicago
Ilinois League of Women Voters
Ilinois
League
Wisconsin
George Williams College
Williams Bay
Wis
Lottery sales set record for Illinois Lottery
With two months left in its fiscal year the Illinois State Lottery has posted a record for ticket sales. Lottery Superintendent Richard Carlson reports 164.6 million dollars in the first ten months of fiscal 1981 and he expects up to 200 million by June 39 when the year ends. The previous best was 163.9 million in 1976.
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Chicago
Illinois State Lottery
Richard Carlson
Carlson
Cat saved five lives before dying in early fire
Mittens the family cat woke Lee Beth Kramer on Monday in a Northwest Side apartment, alerting her husband and three children to a living room fire. The 5-year-old cat died in the blaze along with 7-month old Casey, while five people escaped unharmed aside from singed hair. Officials attributed the fire to an electrical problem.
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Chicago
Lee Beth Kramer
Mittens
Beltone offers free tiny hearing aid model to try at home
A Beltone advertisement promises a free non-operating model of the smallest Beltone aid to demonstrate hearing help. The unit weighs under a quarter-ounce and sits at the ear, with no cost or obligation to receive or keep it. Send for the sample to Beltone Electronics in Chicago at Dept. 92525.
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Chicago
Ill
Beltone
Beltone Electronics
Victoria St
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