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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1981
Page
14
University of Illinois officials report Urbana Champaign campus enrollment at a record 35 152 despite freshmen numbers dipping by one from last year. The prior high was 35 117 in 1975. The fall total includes 27 569 undergraduate and professional students.
Thomas R. O'Connor, 30, of East Peoria, and his wife Donna, 28, were convicted of aggravated battery and cruelty for abusing their 7-year-old daughter. He was moved to a private cell after inmates attacked him when a TV news account aired. He sustained a broken nose and remains in the Tazewell County Jail.
Mayor Jane Byrne will require attendees at some public appearances to pass through a free standing metal detector. The device was installed at the City Council chamber door as Byrne presided over a meeting, according to her security chief Michael Graney.
A Chicago woman, Riemore Nugent Collins, won up to 4 million in corporate assets after a bench trial found she was swindled out of a 1951 trust. The trust, created by William J. Nugent for his daughter, was hidden for years until a city inspection uncovered the box with the documents. Collins will receive assets previously given to John Nugent and now held by his survivors.
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