McGee to lead Wilmette District 39 after resignation
AP reports Glenn Max McGee formerly Illinois schools superintendent resigns last August and signs a five year contract to lead Wilmette School District 39. He will earn 180000 annually and assume duties July 1 at the Cook County district. Greenfield AP notes former police chief Chapman faces long suspended license record after missing a Morgan County court appearance in 1984 on a charge of transporting alcohol.
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Max” McGee
Cook County
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Wilmette
Greenfield
Illinois Secretary of State’s Office
David Chapman
Morgan County
Telegraph
Alton
Lincoln Park Zoo
White Hall
Man sentenced in Missouri for nearly one million meth ingredient pills
Yahia Mohamed Abushaara, 38, a Jordanian national living in Bridgeview, was given six years and three months in federal prison after pleading guilty on May 27 to possessing almost 1 million tablets containing a key methamphetamine production ingredient. The case was heard in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Missouri.
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Springfield
Yahia Mohamed Abushaara
United States
Bridgeview
U.S
Durbin to push O Hare expansion plan in Congress
Illinois Senator Durbin says he will attempt to insert language in a pending bill recognizing Governor Ryan and Mayor Daley have reached a deal to expand O Hare. The plan includes a new southern runway and preserves Ryan’s authority over the project.
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Congress
Washington
Illinois
Dick Durbin
George Ryan
Chicago
Richard Daley
O'Hare International
United States
FAA
Ryan
Daley
Durbin backs forward on airport deal amid O’Hare clash
U S senator Durbin urged moving ahead on an airport expansion, signaling openness to compromises with Daley and Ryan. Illinois Senator Peter Fitzgerald criticized the plan, calling it a travesty to legitimize a runway deemed unsafe by pilots, controllers, and the FAA.
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Daley
Ryan
Illinois
Peter Fitzgerald
O'Hare
Ryan and Daley
Congress
FAA
Three freed after 14 years in Chicago murder case
Three men who spent over 14 years in prison for the Lori Roscetti murder and rape were freed as DNA tests failed to link them to the crime. Circuit Judge Porter expunged another defendant’s conviction. prosecutors said no evidence tied them to the case, and families spoke of long-awaited liberty amid broader exoneration lawsuits and calls for accountability.
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Lori Roscetti
West Side
Illinois
George Ryan
Larry Ollins
Stateville Correctional Center
Calvin Ollins
Omar Saunders
Dennis Porter
Marcellius Bradford
Kathleen Zellner
Zellner
Dennis J. Porter
Ford Heights
Cook County
Ronald Jones
Anthony Porter
Richard Devine
Roscetti
Devine
Ryan orders Illinois agencies to curb pollution
Governor George Ryan directed state agencies to adopt greener practices based on Illinois Green Government Coordinating Council recommendations. The order calls for double sided printing, reduced waste, energy efficiency, native landscaping, limited SUV use, recycled carpet purchases, and low-pollution paint, with phrases like whenever possible.
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Springfield
George Ryan
Illinois Green Government Coordinating Council
Ryan
Man awarded 16 million in asbestos suit against plant owners
Edwardsville AP A jury awarded 58 year old James Crawford 16 million for asbestos related cancer from his time at Owens Illinois glass plant in Alton from 1965 to 1983. Armstrong Contracting and Supply Co. of Lancaster Pennsylvania owned the plant and allegedly knew of asbestos dangers mid 1950s but failed to warn employees.
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Edwardsville
James Crawford
Owens-Illinois
Alton
Armstrong Contracting and Supply Co
Lancaster
Crawford
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