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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 2007
Page
21
Fifteen years after Tammy Zywicki vanished on I-80 near LaSalle and was found dead in Missouri, her mother JoAnn Zywicki remains hopeful a confessor trucker, Bruce Mendenhall, may hold clues. Investigators pursue leads while acknowledging the case may stay unsolved.
Aug 23 marks 15 years since Tammy Zywicki, 21, vanished after dropping her brother at Northwestern in Evanston on 1992. Her 1985 Pontiac broke down on I-80 near LaSalle, her body found nine days later near I 44 between Springfield and Joplin. Witness said a white male truck driver, 35-40, 6 feet, dark hair, was seen. Investigators consider links to Bruce Mendenhall, who has confessed to six killings but is not named in Zywicki’s case.
In Decatur the Masjid Wali Hasan Islamic Center hosts services where over 20 men pray together as women and girls observe. The mosque traces back to 1972 with Elijah Muhammad’s movement, later evolving under Warith Deen Mohammed and Imam Johnnie Shabazz to welcome immigrants from India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia alongside longtime African-American members. Mirza Baig, a 27-year resident and current board secretary, portrays the center as a shared, evolving faith space.
Springfield reports progress on a basic spending plan but deep disagreements remain over gambling expansion health care construction money and mass transit. Leaders push for an operations budget while Gov Blagojevich demands health insurance and a construction program. If unresolved payrolls and services could be affected. Budget relies on natural revenue growth with possible $600 million education uptick and billions for roads bridges and schools. Lt. Gov. Quinn calls recall a needed remedy.
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