Carbondale approves 271 unit elderly housing project
The Carbondale Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously granted UMIC Securities a variance from the 12 spaces per unit parking rule, allowing one space per unit for a 271 unit complex north of Mill Street near SIU Carbondale. The project, backed by HUD rent subsidies, includes two eight story buildings and five smaller ones for elderly and handicapped residents, with a $200000 penalty if occupancy changes within 10 years.
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Robert Grupp
Southern Illinois
Carbondale
Poplar Street
Mill Street
Southern Illinois Univrsity-Carbondale
Zoning Board
Chambrs
East College Street
John Womick
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Concerned Citizens of
Jim Morris
Planned Carbondale apartment complex north of Mill Street
The diagram shows eight buildings planned north of Mill Street between Forest Avenue and Poplar Street in Carbondale. Parking lots labeled P surround housing labeled H, with two eight-story buildings just east of Forest. Existing houses or dormitories lie near the proposed site in the first half-block west of Poplar.
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Mill Street
Forest Avenue
Poplar Street
Carbondale
Forest
Poplar
SIU-C students face $5 health fee rise this summer
SIU Board of Trustees voted 4 to 2 to raise the student health service fee from $40 to $45 per semester, boosting total costs to $376 per semester. The move followed protests by SIU Carbondale Student Government President Dennis Adamczyk who urged student advisory input. The health service faces a roughly $250,000 budget gap as state funding declines from $400,000 to $170,000 this year.
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Henry de Fiebre
Southern Illinoisan
Edwardsville
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
SIU Board of Trustees
Dennis Adamczyk
SIU C
Health Service
Warren W. Brandt
Brandt
Harris Rowe
Jacksonville
William R. Norwood
Elk Grove Village
Ivan A. Elliott Jr
Carmi
Carol K. Kimmel
Rock Island
Margaret Blackshere
Madison
A. D. van Meter Jr
Springfield
Wayne Heberer
Belleville
Elizabeth Byrnes
Carbondale
James Grandone
Alton
van Meter
Adamczyk
Bruce R. Swinburne
Samuel E. McVay
Ambulance unit overhaul urged after county inquiry
Jackson County Ambulance Service faces recommended changes after a two week inquiry into irregularities including on duty marijuana use. The seven member board of inquiry found one case of on duty marijuana use resolved by resignation and no other on duty violations. A transfer of the Murphysboro station to the county owned Green House is among proposed actions to address location problems.
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Tony Stevens
Southern Illinoisan
Jackson County Ambulance Service
Jackson County
Gary Hartlieb
Hartlieb
Murphysboro
Ambulance Committee
Murphysboro Fire Department
Sharon Kowalzik
Carbondale
Alvin Lange
Campbell Hill
Bill Kelley
Eugene Chambers
Jack Cooper
Walter Robinson
Chemical spill shuts I-55 near Lincoln Illinois
Interstate 55 was closed for about four hours between Springfield and Lincoln due to a leak in a 55-gallon titanium tetrachloride drum aboard a semi. A cloud formed as the chemical reacted with moisture, prompting safety crews to relocate the cargo. The highway reopened around 7 a.m. with no evacuations or injuries reported.
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Lincoln, Ill
Springfield
Lincoln
Medicare ambulance rates move slowly in Marion meeting
At a Marion gathering led by the Illinois Department of Public Health officials hear from Neal Gonzalez a Chicago medicare official and local operators about delays in changing ambulance reimbursement. Ronald Pulley who closed his Marion service cites chronic losses while others describe late payments and under reimbursement from medicare IPA and public aid. Potential solutions and next steps were discussed by federal state county and city officials.
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O.R. Walley
Southern Illinoisan
Neal Gonzalez
Marion
Ronald Pulley
Gonzalez
Chicago
Pulley
Williamson County
Illinois Department of Public Health
Cial
Illinois
Robert Motti
Department’s
Division of Emergency
Medicare
Bud Souels
Harrisburg
IPA
UMW miners face court orders amid Illinois reopening talks
U S marshals begin serving a federal order demanding miners return to work while UMW leaders warn few will rejoin. Union and company officials prepare meetings to explain the order under Taft Hartley as mines may reopen Monday with inspectors from both sides.
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U.S
Barbara Schechter
Southern Illinois
United Mine Workers of America
Illinois
UMW
South
Robinson
Subdistrict 8 Board
Thomas Shoemake
Mike Benton
DuQuoin
Jack Ponsetti
Benton
Jerry Jones
Oié Ben Coal Co
Paul Wade
Zeigler Coal Co. 4
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Thompsonville High School
Don Darnell
Southern Illinois University
Thompsonville
Lisa King
Elizabeth Mandrell
Diane McRoy
Darnell
Zoning Board of Appeals
Paul Schoen
Rawlings Street
Jackson County Housing Authority
Florida
New York
Tennessee
Siu-C
Jackson County Inquiry
Iners
Jones
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