State moves to ease handicapped access in Illinois buildings
Illinois state agencies begin the first steps toward accessible design compliance, drafting a single comprehensive Accessibility Standards to meet federal guidelines and planning audits of more than 400 state owned or leased buildings. The effort, aided by a $500 000 federal grant, targets doorways stairs and elevator controls to aid disabled residents and may incur millions in costs for renovations.
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Bill Densmore
Springfield
Illinois
Michael A. Jones
Capital Development Board
Jones
Illinois Register
Theodore D. Puckerius
State Department of Administrative Services
State Auditor General
Robert G. Cronson
Calvin W. Skinner
Crystal Lake
General Assembly
Skinner
Senate Rules Committee
House
Department of Administrative Services
Puckorius
Thompson to divert fed money for state jobs council
Gov. James Thompson plans to redirect 193000 in federal manpower funds to form a Illinois Council on Jobs and the Economy led by Thompson. He will chair the body with co chairs Carl Alessi and William Ylvisakor and Charles Combs as executive director paid 40000 annually. Critics deride it as a gimmick and say the existing department should handle job policy.
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Chicago
James Thompson
Council On
Thompson
Illinois Department of Business and Economic Development
Council
Carl P. Alessi
United Steel Workers Union
William Ylvisakor
Rolling Meadows Electrical
DeKalb Bank
Charles Combs
Combs
William Redmond
D-Bensenville
Department of Business and Economic Development
Early frost threatens Illinois corn and soybean yields
Illinois crops lag two weeks and an early frost could damage corn and soybeans. Experts caution forecasts are uncertain, noting day-specific predictions aren t possible months ahead. Frost usually arrives Oct 30 in the south and Oct 15 in the north, with a 25 percent chance of two weeks earlier than that.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Staley Chagnon
Atmospheric Sciencies Division
Illinois State Water Survey
Illinois Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Court Orders Subsidies for Private Chicago Apartments
Officials of Operation PUSH obtained a court order to allow federal rent subsidies for low income families in privately owned Chicago apartments in predominantly black areas. William Thurston, housing director for the civil rights group, said the order extends subsidies to about 14 000 rentals, enabling the federal government to cover the rent gap up to 25 percent of a family’s income. The HUD had barred subsidies in black areas to remedy segregation, a policy Thurston calls a hardship for many renters.
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Chicago
Operation Push
William Thurston
The
Civil Rights Group
Housing and Urban Development Department
Thurston
Judge Rules CTA May Offer School Busing
A federal judge reversed a federal agency ruling, allowing the Chicago Transit Authority to use its buses for student transport under the city desegregation plan. The Urban Mass Transportation Administration had threatened to cut funds if CTA won a contract to carry children. CTA argued federal law bans private school bus competition with government subsidized buses. The school board has postponed action on the contract.
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Chicago
Chicago Transit Authority
Bernard M. Decker
U.S. District Court
Urban Mass Transportation Administration
CTA
Chicago School Board
Transportation Agency
Department
New Paxton Terminal Expands Illinois Grain Exports
Illinois Grain Corp plans to export over 200 million bushels annually with Paxton terminal opening this fall at the Illinois Central Gulf and Norfolk and Western junction. Executive VP E. V. Stevenson said the firm will originate about 6 percent of U S grain exports, shipping by rail to East Coast or Gulf ports.
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Peoria
Illinois Grain Corp
Paxton
E. V. Stevenson
Stevenson
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railroad
East Coast
Gulf
Scott pushes Illinois waste dumping ban and national policy
Illinois Attorney General William Scott told a Senate subcommittee that the state cannot determine what nuclear wastes and deadly chemicals are entering Illinois. He urged legislation to outlaw dumping and to require waste identification and detoxification.
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Chicago
William Scott
Illinois
Scott
Illinois Senate
Morris
Ill
California
New York
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