State Pays 21.2 Million While RTA Debts Remain
Comptroller Roland Burris announced the state will release a 21.2 million sales tax payment to the Regional Transportation Authority despite the RTA missing a 1973 loan repayment deadline. A dispute over who must notify the comptroller and who collects the overdue loan stalled a guaranteed repayment plan, prompting a Friday meeting and potential legal action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Levener
Mike Lawrence
Southern Illinois
Springfield
State Treasury
Regional Transportation Authority
RTA
Roland Burris
Burris
State Department of Transportation
State
William Schaub
Schaub
Comptroller
Department of Transportation
Comptroller’s
DOT
Illinois
John D. Kramer
Secretary of Transportation
Jimmie Voss
Voss
Chicago Transit Authority
Richard Adorjan
CTA
Bear at Camp Ondessonk facing rabies hearing today
Tommy the 22 year old brown bear at Camp Ondessonk near Vienna may be destroyed after biting an 11 year old Fairview Heights boy. Rabies testing hinges on today’s St. Clair County hearing. The bear’s keeper and camp officials defend his tame history and argue the bite occurred during feeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonnie Marx
Tommy
Ondessonk
Vienna
St. Clair County
Fairview Heights
Scott Burrelsman
Belleville
St. Louis
Camp Ondessonk
John Winklemolen
Winklemolon
Roy Reeder
Burrelsman
Scott
Gary McKibben
Johnson County
Harold James
McKibben
Burrelsmans
Weather outlook shows showers possible tonight into Friday
The National Weather Service forecasts cloudy skies tonight with showers or thunderstorms possible and temperatures dipping to the upper 60s to low 70s. Friday should be partly sunny and warm with highs near 88. The Illinois forecast indicates a chance of showers Sunday or Monday with highs in the 80s to low 90s and lows from the low 60s to low 70s.
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National Weather Service
Illinois
Error on state duck stamps pays off for conservationists
A miscaptioned 1981 Illinois Migratory Wildfowl stamp depicting a widgeon instead of a green winged teal led to a recall of 123000 stamps. Ducks Unlimited bought 1500 with the error to auction for conservation funds, paying 7500 dollars and covering 1730 dollars for reprinting. The error stampings now fetch high prices at auctions and among collectors, with units selling from 70 to 450 dollars, and chapters assigned to auction four per year.
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Ben Gelman
Illinois
McCormick Place
Chicago
Jim Oliver
Illinois Department of Conservation
Ducks Unlimited of
Ducks Nest
Ducks Unlimited
Conservation Department
Oliver
Wigeon
Webster's
Widgeon
Olga
Murphysboro
Burnett Harshman
Springfield
Jack Walker
Danville
Kansas City
Harvey Pitt
du Quoin
District 5
Walker
Inmate release urged as Illinois prison crowd grows
DOC Director Michael Lane warned Illinois prisons face steady crowding with beds short of demand. He noted 12,650 inmates and 13,245 beds by September, with 14,695 by 1984 and a projected 16,500 inmates that year. Lane cited double-celling, determinative sentencing, and Chicago gang dynamics as key factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Woolf
Lane
Carbondale
Department of Corrections
Illinois
Vienna
Michigan
United States
Chicago
National Institute of Justice
Illinois uses early release as safety valve for prison crowding
Lane DOC figures show 56 percent of inmates convicted of murder or high level felonies. With court processing up, funds insufficient, and bed turnover low, the department will continue early releases. Last year 4,000 inmates released while 100 new beds or 100 releases occur weekly.
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Lane
Cairo
Rockford
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Ann Landers
Wit’s End
Rts
Wiese
Jerry Lower
Olga Todd
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