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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 2001
Page
3
Gov George Ryan and Mayor Richard Daley toured Boeing's new Chicago headquarters in a ceremony marking a 50 month effort that began last March when Boeing announced its departure from Seattle, ending 85 years there. Chicago wooed Boeing through seven weeks of negotiations before selection.
FBI lab technicians recovered a fingerprint from evidence in the 1975 homicide of Carroll Rofstad, an Illinois State University student beaten December 23, 1975. The print was lifted using advanced technology not available in the era.
MOLINE AP Chuckles the clown Kimble McLain 42 of Rock Island was found innocent after an hour long trial before Municipal Judge Dana McReynolds. The judge ruled the state failed to prove the clown flashed children on purpose during a performance.
A Cook County suit alleges United Airlines forced Richard Ward, a transsexual also known as Sarah West, to leave a flight and change into men's clothes before reboarding. Ward was en route from Omaha to Chicago for a connection to London.
Test results confirm West Nile virus in Illinois with two infected dead crows found in Lombard and Arlington Heights near Chicago. Officials urge vigilance as migratory birds spread the virus, urging mosquito precautions and screen use while noting no Midwest human cases yet.
Illinois agriculture officials sold all grain from Ty-Walk Liquid Sales Inc. elevators in Minooka Elwood Joliet and Seneca after Ty-Walk failed and relinquished its license. ADM submitted the winning bids for 11 million bushels of corn and 300000 bushels of soybeans, prices 1.90 to 2.10 and 4.66 to 4.83 per bushel. Proceeds over 3.3 million help pay debts and farmers owed, with remaining claims backed by the Illinois Grain Insurance Fund nearly 5 million. If needed lawmakers may cover any shortfall from the general fund.
Crown Point Indiana police charge David Allen Patchen 39 of Lowell with kidnapping and nine counts of confinement after he held nine Center Bank employees hostage with a sawed off shotgun in a four hour standoff. He released two women for food and told others to sit in the lobby. No one was injured. He had shown hunger not money. He had shot rounds Monday night near his home. Neighbors call him quiet and reclusive. Relatives say he was once well liked.
The gypsy moth infestation grows in Lake and DuPage counties as federal financing may end. A nursery official says the moth is here to stay. If infestation peaks in an area, local governments fund future sprayings, with DuPage facing about $400,000 next year.
The report states the West Nile Virus has been found in 20 states the District of Columbia and southern Ontario. It notes 10 human confirmations so far this year and directs readers to the Indiana state health site for more information.
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