Thompson Focuses on Build Illinois Across Southern Illinois
Gov. Thompson promoted the 2.3 billion Build Illinois plan with a regional pitch across Harrisburg Marion and Anna. He stressed no pet projects and urged funding through taxes if needed while highlighting wastewater plants coal incentives and university education funding as infrastructure boosters. He avoided specifics yet urged public support and warned against regional rivalries. He also faced questions about Gary Dotson’s commuted sentence and offered cautious mercy remarks.
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Tim Landis
James Thompson
Illinois
Southern Illinois
Harrisburg
Union County
Marion
Anna
Thompson
Anna-Jonesboro
Union County Industrial Committee
Build Illinois
Gary Dotson
Thompson backs Gray air plan as excellent idea
Gov. James Thompson said he won t endorse Ken Gray s plan to convert Scott Air Force Base for joint military civilian use but called it an excellent idea worthy of study. A feasibility review is needed to decide if commercial passenger flights could work or if cargo use is better. Thompson aims to win Missouri support and cautioned a slow approach, with funding to come from outside Build Illinois.
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Illinois
Southern Illinois
Thompson
General Assembly
Tim Landis
Southern Illinoisan
James Thompson
U.S
Ken Gray
Scott Air Force Base
Gray
Belleville Air Base
Lambert International Airport
St. Louis
Scott Airfield
Missouri
Mississippi River
Lambert International
John) Ashcroft
House
Air Force
Mel Price International
Bus pullouts threaten independence in rural Illinois
A Springfield Bureau report shows widespread loss of intercity bus routes across Illinois, hurting elderly and poor riders. Cuts blamed on deregulation and low profitability, with ICC power widening and states shifting to advisory roles. Local efforts in Vandalia and Kewanee push marketing and flexible service to preserve transit options amid shrinking networks.
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Jim Ludwick
Springfield
Elizabeth Hutton
Kewanee
Peoria
Virginia Nelson
Illinois
Bob Marquardt
Carbondale
du Quoin
Centralia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rory McGinty
ICC
Hiller faces new misconduct counts in embezzlement probe
Franklin County Clerk Bob Hiller was indicted on two more counts of official misconduct, bringing his total to 18 felonies including 10 official misconduct and eight counts of felony theft. The grand jury also alleges misusing funds from 1982 to 1983. Trial set for July 29. county withholds full salary to recover $78,000 missing from 1984.
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Elizabeth Renshaw
Southern Illinois
Franklin County
Bob Hiller
Grand Jury
Hiller
Clerk’s General Fund
Ellen Schanzle-Haskins
Illinois Attorney General’s Office
Circuit
Terrence Hopkins
Charles Given
Mount Vernon
Hopkins
Rea and Ballesteros Win Southern Illinois Health Award
State Rep Jim Rea and Dr Oswaldo Ballesteros are first recipients of Quality Service awards from Quality of Life Services Inc. The honors recognize five years of health care involvement and local service. Ballesteros active at St Joseph Memorial Hospital and SIU Carbondale. Rea on Illinois Health and Family Services Committee. They will be celebrated June 22 in Murphysboro. The board will seek nominations for next year.
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Jim Rea
D-Christopher
Oswaldo Ballesteros
Southern Illinois
Quality of Life Services Inc
Southern Illinois Home Health Agency
al Reyes
QLS
Ballesteros
Murphysboro-area
St. Joseph Memorial Hospital
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Carbondale
Rea
Illinois Education Association
Illinois Community Action Agencies
Frederick J’s
Murphysboro
Judge Denies Motion to Change Guilty Plea in Reckless Homicide
In Williamson County Circuit Court Marion Judge Robert Howerton denied a motion by 42 year old James Watson of Marion to reconsider his sentence and withdraw a guilty plea in the May 9, 1982 three car crash that killed Craig M. Chappell of Route 2 White Salmon Washington. Howerton had sentenced Watson in April to three years in the Department of Corrections and that sentence stands.
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James Watson
Marion
Robert Howerton
Williamson County
Watson
Craig M. Chappell
White Salmon
Wash
Howerton
Department of Corrections
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Washington D.C
Dwight Nale
Amtrak
Burlington Trailways
Galesburg
Chicago
Ron Moore
Moore
Joe Sullivan
Crown Travels, Inc
Joe Kott
Kott
Vandalia
Marquardt
City National Bank
Ropers
John McCutchen
Paul Parks
Makanda
al Homan
Ray Forby
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