Thompson warns no room for overrides in Illinois budget cuts
Gov. James R. Thompson urges lawmakers to approve $435 million in budget cuts, saying overrides are impossible. He warns the state will end the year with $170 million in reserves, below the safety net, as fall sessions begin. Westville teachers strike continues fourteenth day, affecting 1,400 students. Lisle District 202 talks stalled with teachers authorized to strike.
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Springfield
James R. Thompson
Thompson
General Assembly
Illinois
Treasury
House
Senate
Westville
Chicago
Lisle
Union Leaders vow to defy CTA contract cuts in Chicago
Chicago AP reports city transit union leaders will resist a CTA push to renegotiate labor deals for Locals 241 and 308. The agency seeks to end minimum wage guarantees and automatic cost of living adjustments, with contracts expiring November 1982 and proposed changes including fewer vacation and sick days and higher employee insurance costs, through June 30, 1984.
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Chicago
CTA
Theodore G. Schuster
Amalgamated Transit Union
First verdict under new law finds killer guilty but mentally ill
Paul DeWit, 22, convicted of stabbing Everett Clarke 68, former voice of The Whistler, at the Chicago drama studio on Sept 9 1980. Jury deliberated over six hours. Law allows guilty but mentally ill verdict with sentence served in a mental facility until fit for a correctional facility. sentencing set for Oct 28. DeWit's attorney argued insanity.
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Chicago
Cook County
Paul DeWit
Everett Clarke
the Whistler
Clarke
DeWit
Williams seeks dismissal of murder charges in press prejudice
Attorneys for Wayne Williams 23 ask Superior Court to drop charges citing pretrial publicity they call inaccurate and biased. Prosecutors seek faster proceedings while defense warns disclosure of evidence risks right to an impartial jury. Williams is indicted for the July 17 murders of Jimmy Ray Payne 21 and Nathaniel Cater 27.
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Atlanta
Wayne B. Williams
Superior Court
Williams
Jimmy Ray Payne
Nathaniel Cater
Chicago Hyatt walkways fail to pass city review
City official blasts Hyatt Hotels for proposing only a cursory structural test plan for suspended walkways at the downtown Chicago Hyatt. Tests must mirror Kansas City design linked to the 1981 skywalk collapse that killed 113 and injured nearly 200. Hyatt to resubmit another proposal for weekend review.
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Chicago
Hyatt Regency
Kansas City
Nick J. Fern
Inspectional Services
Hyatt Hotels Corp
Hyatt
Fern
La Salle teachers end week-long strike and return to class
North-central Illinois city La Salle resumes classes after teachers and school board ratify a new union contract ending a week-long walkout. Belwood District 88 and Riverside Brookfield High also see teachers back in schools as negotiations continue in DuPage County District 15.
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la Salle
Chicago
Bellwood
Riverside-Brookfield High School
Riverside- Brookfield
Ean
DuPage County
Marquardt
Glendale Heights
Bloomingdale
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