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* Illinois foreclosures still among nation’s highest
Foreclosures in Illinois during May put the state at the dubious position of No. 8 nationwide after it posted a 38 percent increase compared to a year ago, according to a report released today by RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based research firm.
* Aldermen approve South Side steel mill redevelopment
Aldermen endorsed a proposal by a development group including Chicago-based McCaffery Interests to build condominiums, apartments and a million square feet of retail space on the northern 77 acres of the 400-acre former U.S. Steel South Works site near 79th Street east of U.S. 41. The site has been empty since the plant closed in 1992.
* Sweeny: Officials gear up for pitch to land Navistar facility
* Caterpillar’s new CEO Oberhelman will add chairman title
* Deere investing $100 million to modernize Waterloo foundry
* Unit 5 to rehire half of their laid-off teachers
* [Springfield] Urban League releases 200 employees; expected to return in fall* Roanoke families remind tornado victims to keep ‘perspective’
* EPA and Daley to make Chicago River splash
Mr. Daley, of course, a few days ago urged EPA chiefs to go jump in Washington’s Potomac River if they want to engage in water sports. The comment came after the agency filed a letter saying Chicago could do better curbing pollution and ought to make our fair waterway suitable for swimming.
* City Council approves 2 percent raises for Chicago police
* City Council honors off-duty officer killed outside parents’ home
* Alleged Torture Victim Expected to Testify Against Burge
* Former police detective testifies against Burge
* Burge witness tells of hearing screams, seeing injuries
* Witness: Burge thought suspect beatings ‘funny’
* Ald. Burke proposes drop-side crib ban
* Chicago stores will have to post child car seat guidelines
* Salmonella outbreak expands to 24 Ill. counties
The health department urges people who got sick after eating at Subway restaurants on or after May 10 to contact their health care provider or local health department.
* Woman in wheelchair killed by Metra train
* Former housing commissioner was active in Jewish affairs
Mrs. Perlman, 98, died of natural causes Thursday, June 3, in hospice care at Weiss Memorial Hospital, said her daughter, Midge Perlman Shafton.
* Tribune: Now deliver
n a 13-3 vote, the board handed permanent control of the county’s health system to the independent panel that has been running the system for about two years.
That’s great news for taxpayers and all those patients, many of them impoverished, who depend on the health system. This panel has been effective and efficient, two words not normally associated with the county’s system, long a patronage paradise for county pols and their cronies.
* Mayors seeing red over county cameras
The Cook County B oard’s approval of the contract last week supported a 2007 ordinance to establish a program for red light cameras on county roads. That ordinance included a list of 30 potential intersections throughout the county - eight in the Southland - to receive the cameras for a pilot program, but the county never discussed the plan with the municipalities.
In Tinley Park, where there are also red light cameras at some busy intersections, the sentiment was echoed.
“We should have had some discussion with the county to see if it was justified and if Tinley Park needed that camera,” Police Chief Michael O’Connell said.
That list, to boot, was rife with errors, misidentifying the location of several intersections. The most glaring of which put Lake-Cook and McHenry roads in Hickory Hills when it is actually about 40 miles north in Buffalo Grove.
* Suburbs’ recourse over red-light cameras remains murky
* Red-light camera plan pits Cook County against suburbs
* County board could give yellow light on cameras
The proposed amendment, sponsored by suburban commissioners Larry Suffredin, Timothy Schneider and Gregg Goslin, would allow suburbs to exclude themselves from the plan to install the cameras at intersections along county-maintained roads, Goslin said.
* Chicago Heights service fee slashed
The community service fee, which is assessed every two months, is being cut from $51 per household to $38.24.
Senior citizens will go from paying $25.50 to $19.12 every two months.
City officials said the fee, which is assessed through water bills, helps generate about $2 million and helps pay for police, fire and other city services.
* Downers Grove water rates set to rise
* Daily Herald: One suburb’s relentless fight against violence
Hanover Park, in reacting to four murders inside two weeks just a year ago, instead set forth to establish a major shift in the way it polices its citizenry in order to establish greater trust, a greater intelligence network and better contact with kids who could choose the wrong path.
What it all boils down to is that Hanover Park police have pledged to get to know the people in the community.
* Evanston Moves Forward With Baggy Pants Rule
* Rockford City Market may sell downtown plan, too
* State’s nonpayment threatens Rock Island County probation system
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