Pension perks echo at Illinois General Assembly session
In Springfield lawmakers wrestled with reapportionment, retirement benefits, and tax rollbacks amid a tense open-meetings climate. Despite clashes over mass transit funding and fringe benefits, leaders brokered a compromise on unemployment, while Open Meetings and drunk driving laws were strengthened. The piece notes bold moves and caution, with fits of political theater, and concludes there is always next year.
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Mike Lawrence
Southern Illinois
Springfield
John D’arco
Chicago
Kenneth V. Buzbee
Carbondale
Buzbee
House
Senate
D’arco
General Assembly
Capitol
82Nd General Assembly
Illinois
Congress
James R. Thompson
Assembly
House-Senate
Thompson
Philip J. Rock
Oak Park
Rock
Egg man of Nashville clings to door-to-door approach
Bert Meyer, who has delivered eggs door to door for 28 years in Southern Illinois, built a regional egg business from a Nashville basement in 1953. He ran four weekly routes covering 50 000 miles annually, managed 14 000 chickens, and supplied 25 McDonald’s outlets while maintaining a honor system payment method. He expanded into production due to industry consolidation, later returning to buy from other producers, and continues to service customers with his unique packaging and direct delivery despite economic pressures.
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Nashville
Bert Meyer
Bert
Wanda
Illinois
St. Louis
Granite City
Meyers
Meyer
McDonald's
Metro-East
Chicago
Priest George Clements adopts boy to lead parish role
Rev. George Clements of Holy Angels Church on Chicago's South Side becomes the adoptive father of Joey, a 13 year old abandoned infant, turning his parish leadership into a act of civil rights advocacy. He has long campaigned for more black adoptions and plans to finalize the adoption next week.
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Chicago
George Clements
Clements
Joey
South Side
Black Child Development Institute
United States
Holy Angels Church
Sterilization failure grounds suit for child support
Illinois appellate court rules parents may sue to recover costs of raising a child born after unsuccessful sterilization. The court rejects public policy limits and says the right to decide to have a child is protectable without abortion or adoption as a prerequisite. Cases involve a vasectomy in 1977 producing a 1978 child and a tubal cauterization in 1972 with a 1977 pregnancy.
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Chicago
Illinois
Melliganti
Cook County
Louis J. Giliberto
Giliberto
Circuit Court
Michael Reese Hospital
Hurst gunshot victim writes Reagan letter reply
James Hewlett a 15 year old from Hurst sent a get well note to President Reagan after being wounded in a December hunting accident near De Soto Illinois He received a handwritten thank you card from the president praising his friendship and prayers Hewlett who will be a Herrin High School sophomore after a month in hospital has fully recovered and hopes to frame the note This was his first time writing to a president and he was unsure if he would hear back.
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Tom Woolf
The
Southern Illinoisan
James Hewlett
Reagan
Hewlett
Hurst
Herrin High School
Illinois 149
de Soto
Firmin Desloge
St. Louis
Shields
Jackson County
Woodrow Procunier
UMW Protest Over Illinois Power Rate Hike for Clinton Plant
A United Mine Workers lobbyist objects to the Illinois Commerce Commission ruling that allows Illinois Power to raise rates by 19.9 percent to fund the Clinton nuclear plant. The hike covers 375 million dollars invested and affects coal counties Randolph and Perry.
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United Mine Workers
Illinois Commerce Commission
Illinois Power Co
Clinton
Cecal
Gerald Hawkins
UMW
Illinois
Illinois Power
ICC
Randolph
Perry
Post Offices Limit Services for Holiday
Area post offices will operate on holiday schedule Saturday July 4. No regular residential or business mail deliveries and lobby services unavailable except lockbox. Some expedited mail services like special delivery and express mail will continue. Mail pickup from collection boxes follows holiday schedule. Normal service resumes Monday July 6.
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Hubert G. Goforth
Carbondale
Fireworks illegal in Illinois but sold nearby draw concern
Illinois bans on fireworks clash with Missouri access as police report rising complaints and DIY displays. Murphysboro and Herrin officers warn owners, issue notices, and rely on discretion while state estimates of injuries from illegal use hover around 250 annually.
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R.C. Saponar
Southern Illinoisan
Illinois
Missouri
Jack Carter
Townsend
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