Illinois family adopts spinabifida baby from DCFS care
An Illinois couple outside Cook County has adopted a six week old boy with spina bifida after DCFS custody. The infant, born in Lawrenceville, will undergo corrective surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. The state ended its investigation into alleged neglect after finding no denial of care at Crawford Memorial Hospital. National scrutiny followed a federal warning about hospital funding tied to care for babies with birth defects. The adoptive parents, who have a handicapped child of their own, say the baby is the cutest thing in the world.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
State Department of Children and Family Services
DCFS
Gregory Coler
Lawrenceville
Chicago
Children’s Memorial Hospital
Coler
Cook County
PCBs found in Richland County pond
Officials monitor PCB contamination in a sludge pond near Noble Illinois tracing to Alcoa waste from Newburgh Indiana. EPA and state officials weigh cleanup costs 500000 to neutralize or 1.75 million to remove and destroy. Federal EPA involved. Richland County approves temporary and permanent removal with five years of monitoring.
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Alcoa
Illinois Epa
Illinois Attorney General’s Office
Ewart
Newburgh
Richland County
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Richland County Board
Fire displaces 150 at Chicago Best Western Lake Shore
A pre dawn blaze started in a second floor conference room of the Best Western Chicago Lake Shore Hotel forcing 150 guests to flee. No injuries were reported. Police bomb and arson unit investigates with no clear cause or indication of arson at this time.
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Chicago
Chicago Lakeshore
Eleven Arrested in Illinois Cocaine Ring
Federal and state agents arrested 11 people in a major cocaine operation said to have run from 1976 to last month. The ring, based in Illinois with shipments up to 11 pounds and possibly 250 pounds total, focused on Chicago Champaign Urbana Iroquois County and extended to California Michigan Colorado Florida and Arizona.
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Danville
U.S
Gerald Fines
Springfield
Chicago
Champaign-Urbana
Iroquois County
Illinois
California
Michigan
Colorado
Florida
Arizona
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New York Strip
Country Fire Band
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Phoenix
Oxfords
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