Lawmakers weigh election consolidation amid cost fears
Illinois Rep. John J. Hill backs merging elections to May and November to cut costs, but Des Plaines official Eleanor Rohrbach warns district boundaries complicate ballots. The Elections Committee delays a vote, hearing more input on a broader plan that would place elections under a single jurisdiction, with re registration costs disputed by county clerks and lobbyists.
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Lindsay-Schaub News
Springfield
John J. Hill
Daurora
House Elections Committee
Eleanor Rohrbach
Des Plaines
Hill
Board of Election Commissioners
St. Louis
Downstate
Walter Obligner
Illinois County Clerks Association
Obligner
Illinois House approves $788 million school aid bill
The $788 million state school aid budget, urged by Gov. Ogilvie, won unanimous House passage and moves to the Senate. Democrats backed the measure with a companion reform bill while Bakalis proposed a $911 million level. An amendment for extra funds to dual districts passed the House but the source remained unclear.
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Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Springfield
Richard Ogilvie
Illinois House
Senate
House
Michael Bakalis
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Gerald Shea
Democrats
Ogilvie
Bakalis
Bradley Glass
R-Northfield
McCormick delays tax freeze vote in Illinois House
Illinois House postpones action on C L McCormick's two year tax freeze plan after contentious debate on a women's rights amendment. Leaders expect passage, with a Senate compromise likely including an income tax rebate and a first seven thousand dollar exemption. Gov Ogilvie's circuit breaker proposal for elderly and disabled real property tax rebates heads to final passage.
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Illinois
C. L. McCormick
Vienna
McCormick
Senate
Ogilvie
House
McKendree Honors Hand With Honorary Degree
George Hand, professor emeritus of economics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, received an honorary doctor of laws from McKendree College and delivered the commencement address. Hand, longtime SIU administrator, joined Carbondale in 1952, later chaired higher education, and previously led Fairmont State College in West Virginia.
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George Hand
Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville
McKendree College
Hand
SIU
Carbondale
Department of Higher Education
Fairmont State College
West Virginia
Driver Hurt in One Car Crash on Interstate 57
Dean Rhodes, 26, of Willow Hill was listed in fair condition at Union County Hospital Anna after a one car crash on Interstate 57 one mile north of the Route 146 intersection. State police report the car ran off the road struck the left shoulder, crossed the highway, and overturned on the right side about 12:50 a.m.
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Dean Rhodes
Willow Hill
Union County Hospital
Anna
Rhodes
Illinois House OKs EPA antipollution bonds for sewer plants
The Illinois House passed an appropriation to let the EPA issue 200 million in antipollution bonds for municipal sewage treatment plant construction next fiscal year. Voters approved a 750 million antipollution bond act in 1970, with about 100 million sold so far and reappropriation of the remaining 100 million.
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Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Springfield
Illinois House
State
Environmental Protection Agency
Illinois
EPA
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