State workers rebuked over mild office remark
A federal appellate panel faulted state bureaucrats for overreacting to Dorothea Yoggerst’s six word question Have you heard the good news It followed reports that the Governor's Office of Manpower and Human Development planned to fire its director and led Yoggerst to quit sued for over one million dollars claiming free speech rights The court urged lower courts to reconsider allegations against supervisor Michael Hedges and personnel chief James McDonough while exonerating two agency officials in a case seen as a trivial personnel matter turned federal case
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Mike Lawrence
Southern Illinois
Springfield
Linda Coker
Yoggerst
Ing
Gomahd
Coker
Review Court
Ackerman
Stan Stewart
Ken Kirby
Hedges
McDonough
Freeman United Coal Co. Sex bias ruling reaffirmed by IFP Commission
The Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission reaffirmed a sex discrimination finding against Freeman United Coal Co. and ordered back wages for Linda Simpkins and La Donna Young. The company may appeal, with back pay amount yet to be calculated from 1975 to their start dates.
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Evan M. Davis
Southern Illinoisan
Freeman United Coal Co
Illinois Fair Employment Practices Commission
Chicago
Freeman
Linda Simpkins
Carterville
la Donna Young
Royalton
John Huffman
Carbondale
Joyce E Tucker named head of Illinois Human Rights Dept
Gov. James R. Thompson appointed Joyce E. Tucker to lead the new Cabinet level Human Rights Department. Tucker, 31, Chicago attorney and former substitute teacher, has been acting director of the Equal Opportunity Department since last October and must face Senate confirmation. The agency consolidates several civil rights bodies and starts July 1.
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Springfield
Chicago
James R. Thompson
Joyce E. Tucker
State Equal Opportunity Department
Senate
Thompson
Tucker
Human Rights Department
Equal Opportunity Department
Fair Employment Practices Commission
State
Ms. Tucker
State Mental Health Department
House
Chicago Democratic House
Faces remade to identify Gacy victims
Chicago AP reports reconstructions of nine remaining unidentified victims of mass murderer John W. Gacy Jr. will be completed and unveiled next month. Forensic expert Dr Clyde Snow notes hopes to ID all nine as photos appear in media, but warns success remains a long shot.
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Chicago
John W. Gacy Jr
Clyde Snow
Federal Aviation Administration Laboratory
Oklahoma City
House fights slashing legislature size in Illinois
The Illinois House moved to prepare ballot arguments against a Citizens' proposal to cut the House size by one third. A 148-9 vote created a joint committee with the Senate to oppose the cutback, with the plan heading to the Senate after 476 thousand signatures. Rep. Madigan urged a counter-brief against the measure.
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Springfield
Illinois House
Citizens
House
Senate
Coalition For Political Honesty
State Elections Board
Joint
Senate Committee
Carl Benning
Deerfield
U.S. Veterans’ Administration
Andersons road to court for presidential ballot fights
Washington AP John B. Anderson has enlisted deans from Yale Columbia Miami and Berkeley to press legal challenges to get his name on state ballots He plans a June 26 federal court appearance in Columbus Ohio to pursue ballot access The effort may force Supreme Court action and is backed by Mitchell Rogovin the CIA hired lawyer as Democrats fight every step to bar him from ballots across all 50 states and DC
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Yale
Columbia
Miami
Berkeley
Anderson
Norman Thomas
George Wallace
Harvard
Laurence Tribe
Supreme Court
Columbus
Ohio
Congress
Illinois
District of Columbia
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D-East St. Louis
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RTA
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Crystal Lake
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General Assembly
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CIA
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