Tax-break cutoff and enterprise zones clear Senate panel
In Springfield the Senate Revenue Committee endorsed a plan to disconnect Illinois from a Reagan era tax break for business equipment, aiming to save 40 percent of the federal write-off. A separate enterprise zones bill to grant tax relief in blighted areas moved to the Senate floor 8-3, amid concerns over local control and potential abuses.
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Senate Revenue Panel
Springfield
Illinois
Treasury
Senate Revenue Committee
Senate
Donald R. Totten
Hoffman Estates
Totten
Jeremiah Joyce
Chicago
Dawn Clark Netsch
Dchicago
Netsch
State Bureau of the Budget
Peter Fox
State Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
Lemke
Philip J. Rock
Oak Park
Talking privy protests hazardous waste landfill near Ottawa
About 50 LaSalle County residents calling themselves Residents Against A Polluted Environment staged a protest at the Illinois Capitol steps. A talking outhouse with a wireless receiver broadcast voices from protesters while 2000 rolls of toilet paper depicted anger over the Pioneer II landfill southwest of Ottawa. The group objects to the 177 acre site developed by Pioneer Processing Co. of Wheaton, claiming it sits above an aquifer and risks health. The protest targets the EPA permit and a Pollution Control Board decision from February.
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Springfield
Ottawa
Illinois Capitol
LaSalle County
Illinois
James R. Thompson
Washington
Big Jim
Big John
State Environmental Protection Agency
Pioneer II
State Pollution Control Board
Pioneer Processing Co
Wheaton
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Fred
Fred’s
Barney Hampton & the Pioneers
Roy Hawk
Smith-Corona
Eoft Rite
E.main P.O. Box
Carbondale
Webster
America
Sears
Canada
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Federal Communications Commission
United States
ATS
Sears. Roebuck and CO
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