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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1981
Page
5
Chicago area officials clashed with downstate lawmakers over funding for the cash strapped transit system. The saga topped AP editors’ year end ballot, as fare hikes were raised to the highest in the nation while money from the state never materialized.
Editors select the year’s top Illinois stories: transit crisis sparring, Cardinal Cody funds probe, budget cuts, death of Alan Madden, drought and floods, failure to redraw districts, coal miners strike, Walter Polovchak asylum, Thompson senate power bid struck down, and a Danville hospital Siamese twins ruling.
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