Illinois colleges face tuition hikes and wage freezes amid budget crisis
Illinois public universities may again raise tuition and freeze pay as a $5 billion deficit looms. IBHE's proposed modest increases face cuts risk while enrollment climbs. ISU warns budgets will be revisited if funding shrinks. faculty fear wage losses may fuel union pressure and potential strikes at SIU Carbondale.
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Illinois
Rod Blagojevich
Illinois Board of Higher Education
IBHE
Don Levener
Illinois State University
Victor Boschini
Eastern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University
ISU
Jay Groves
Levener
Manfred Steger
Boschini
Illinois State
SIU
Carbondale
Illinois DCFS under scrutiny after foster child chained to bed
Illinois DCFS officials seek to understand how a system praised for years failed a 3 year old found chained to a bed in a South Side home. Private agencies that monitored foster care faced criticism while charges were filed against the foster mother and father and DCFS custody was extended to five other children.
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Chicago
Ilinois Department of Children and Family Services
DCFS
Cook County
Patrick Murphy
Children and Family Services
David Lieberman
Illinois
Mary Bryant
Bryant
Melvin Bond
Melinda Bryant
Bond
Martha Allen
Naomi Jennings
Youth Empire Services
Country Club Hills
Former secretary testifies in licenses trial in Chicago
Former secretary of state employee Brad Roseberry testified he spent months on campaigns for Gov. George Ryan while drawing a state paycheck. He linked Ryan to a September 1992 meeting where Scott Fowell rejected a leave of absence for Roseberry as he aided Bruce Clark’s campaign.
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Chicago
George Ryan
Brad Roseberry
Ryan
Scott Fowell
Roseberry
Bruce Clark
Fawell
Citizens For Ryan Campaign Committee
Committee
State Department of Transportation
Peotone
Fowell
Clark
James R. Thompson Center
Union leader questions coal law impact in Illinois
United Mine Workers District 12 chief Joe Angleton argues the 2001 coal law has produced no new mines or power plants in Illinois after a year and a half. He notes no subsidies funded construction, while Clean Coal Resources plans a Fayette County mine-mouth plant that could use up to 80 million in incentives but isn’t relying on them. Six firms have gained clean air permits, suggesting some progress despite the law's shortcomings.
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Springfield
Illinois
Fayette County
Joe Angleton
United Mine Workers of America District 12
George Ryan
Angleton
du Quoin
Rod Blagojevich
Gary Philo
Office of Coal Development
Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
Philo
Franklin County
Washington County
Randolph County
United States
Clean Coal Resources Inc
Louisville
Ken Hoskins
Clean Coal Resources
Hoskins
Bill would extend early retirement benefits for state workers
Two central Illinois lawmakers propose House Bill 356 to extend the deadline for early retirement and allow former state workers dismissed without cause since Blagojevich's term to apply. The plan would run through June 30, potentially adding about 1,000 retirements and $50 million in savings, per sponsor quotes.
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Springfield
Illinois
Raymond Poe
Rich Brauer
Rod Blagojevich
Poe
Brauer
Painful Zimmer Centralign Hip Prosthesis Claims
Law firm advertises on hip replacement injuries from the Zimmer Centralign implant used 1992 to 1998. It promises potential compensation for premature loosening and pain and invites free consultations via a web site and toll free number.
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Hiphurt.com
Pritzker Ruohonen & Associates, P.A
Minneapolis, MN
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