Tax Reduction Call for Will County Joliet Tax Relief
Joliet residents face combined state and county taxes that total one sixth of the tax bill. A Joliet taxpayers league urges a comprehensive review of the entire Will County taxing structure, not just county operations, to achieve relief. The note stresses Joliet’s large share of the population and supports free schools aligned with Roosevelt’s policy.
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Joliet
Will County
Taxpayers League
Ragagvelt
Water plant revenues limited to three uses under Illinois law
The article explains that municipal water rents may be used only to maintain the plant, pay interest on bonds, or fund bond sinking. Surplus must reduce water rents. Water agencies cannot function as general profit sources, and using water rents for city expenses is illegal. A city finance committee formed two years ago failed to deliver guidance.
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Illinois
1934 Auto License Plates Now Ready
The first 100 000 sets of the 1934 plates with yellow figures on a black background have been sent from Stateville Penitentiary where convicts manufacture them. A total of 1 500 000 plates will be produced with three eight hour shifts daily and seventy five workers per shift.
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Springfield
Stateville Penitentiary
Frank
Whipp
Neese. Eary
Twenty tax receivership suits filed in Chicago
Twenty tax delinquent properties named in receivership suits filed today in the County Court to collect back taxes totaling $39,779.23.
October auto sales in Illinois rise sharply
October automobile registrations in Illinois totaled 7 332, more than double October 1932 but below September. Cook county registrations reached 3 879 in October, up from 2 400 last year, with Chicago area figures contributing to the month’s gain.
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Illinois
Springfield
Cook County
Prison record set at two institutions
Arrival of thirty eight Cook county convicts at Joliet yesterday increased the prison population to a new all time record of 5281, more than twice the capacity for which the two buildings were designed.
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Cook County
Joliet
Armistice Day Parade Promises Nostalgic 1918 Echo
Veterans parade set for tomorrow at 10 45 AM beginning on Webster and Chicago streets. Leaders include Captain Robert McBride and Commander J R Ulrich with W M Bollig A Meyer and J Lum directing units. No floats. morning events lead to balls at China Doll ballroom and Elks building.
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Soldier Boys
Cass Street
J. J. Cohen
Central School
Webster
Chicago
Robert McBride
Marshall
J. R. Ulrich
W. M. Bollig
Veterans of Foreign Wars
A. Meyer
American Legion
J. Lum
Army and Navy Veterans
Tomorow
Webster Streets
Jefferson
Joliet
Cass
Scott Street
Ca McBride
Ulrich, Bacher
Meyer
Cox
Ralph Maloney
The
China Doll
Legion
Elks
Stateville prison to plant 500 community gardens
Five hundred new community gardens will be turned over next year for cultivation by inmates of Stateville Penitentiary. Each plot will be a square 30 feet on a side and convicts who prefer gardening will be chosen by a drawing.
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Stateville
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Mills
West Aurora
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Summitt Street
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