Menard Center Renovation Transforms Filth-Hole Prison Site
Charles Rowe and a team of inmates and craftsmen have renovated the Chester Mental Health Center complex into a livable minimum security unit for Menard Correctional Center. Over two years workers cleaned, plastered, painted, rewired, and rebuilt facilities, turning a dilapidated site into a functional housing area with new guard tower, bused inmate labor, and external upgrades funded by a $236,000 state bond.
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Russ Mitchell
Southern Illinoisan
Charles Rowe
Old Chester Mental Health Center
Illinois Department of Corrections
Rowe
Menard Correctional Center
Corrections Department
Department of
Daniel Walker
Mental Health Department
Chester
Illinois
Menard
Mississippi River
Stoffel
Mental Health Center
Ralph Hay
Hay
Popu
Erty
Charles Mines
Michael Lane
Lane
Unexpect ed Guest thrills with British murder mood
Ben Gelman reviews the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Summer Playhouse revival of Agatha Christie The Unexpected Guest. The cast delivers solid performances though lighting and tension lag at key moments, producing only cool air and partial shivers rather than true foreboding.
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Ben Gelman
Southern Illinoisan
Agatha Christie
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Summer Playhouse
South Wales
Randall Taylor
Jeffrey Hutchinson
Jan O’connor
Garth Schumacher
Thomas Pallen
Debra Foley
Steven Kosinski
Ann Solley
Laura Warwick
Ms. Solley
Jeff Gurley
Bob Modoff
Darwin Reid Payne
Richard Ross
Lang Reynolds
Joe Proctor
SIUC
Boil water orders lifted for several towns in region
Du Quoin city police said several towns on the Du Quoin Water System including Du Quoin Old Du Quoin Tamaroa and Dowell had boil water orders lifted after tests indicated good water quality. De Soto and Elkville remain under boil order while Kin Kaid Area Water System officials reported pressures below EPA recommendations earlier. Lake Heights residents in Carbondale saw their boil order lifted after a water line repair was finished.
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du Quoin
Old du Quoin
Tamaroa
Dowell
de Soto
Elkville
Kinkaid Area
Howard Kunce
David Fliger
Kinkaid System
Environmental Protection Agency
Kance
Lake Heights
Carbondale
Wilbur Brown
Crab Orchard
Postal workers uneasy over tentative 3 year wage deal
In Southern Illinois, Carbondale and Herrin postal workers express dissatisfaction with a 19.5 percent proposed wage increase over three years while noting no strike plans. APWU members will vote around Aug 1. some say they will vote down the contract. Local voices describe a no strike pledge and concerns over public perception of the postal job.
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Illinois
Carbondale
Richard Jones
Murphysboro
Jones
Gordon Walker
Carbondale Postal Service
Walker
Herrin
Carbonale
American Postal Workers Union
APWU
Bill Hale
Hale
Cecil McKinney
McKinney
Radio
Lloyd Summers
The
Letter Carriers Union
Herrin Post Office
Summers
Fred Schoonover
Marion
Kenneth Chestosky
U.S. Postal Service
Washington, D.C
Chestosky
Postal Service
Abortion Tale From Southern Illinois Woman and Daughter
A Southern Illinois mother recalls taking her teenage daughter to a Granite City clinic for an abortion amid cost barriers and social stigma. The story notes that most local women seek abortions outside the immediate area and details counseling, payment hurdles, and post procedure care while highlighting the region’s pro choice stance at the Women’s Center in Carbondale.
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Illinois
Bonnie Johnston
Southern Illinoisan
Southern Illinois
Carbondale’s Memorial Hospital
Herrin Hospital
Carbondale
Jane Smith
Mary
Hope Clinic
Granite City
Jane
Mary Smith
Sion
Women’s Center
St. Louis
Cea
General Assembly
James Thompson
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