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...unfortunate diminutive coined in 1901 by the University of Chicago's first president, William Rainey Harper, when he helped launch the first public junior in Joliet, III. A more grown up name is now preferred: community colleges...
...started work under few illusions. The morning of his appointment, Chicago papers reported on a four-man gang that stole $1,000,000 in furs and jewelry from Gold Coast apartments. The robbers said that they operated with impunity-before the FBI caught them and got them sent to Joliet-by paying $20,000 a year to detectives on the city burglary squad. One dapper thief, spotted by a victim, was arrested and put through police lineup, but escaped identification because a friendly ($1,000) Chicago cop disguised him in a new hairdo and horn-rimmed glasses...
Prison at Joliet, Ill. He had finished his breakfast of stewed fruit, hot cereal, a cinnamon roll and coffee, taken the first of his three daily insulin shots, worked for more than an hour at his job of clerk in the prison's master mechanic's office. Now a paunchy, balding diabetic of 53. he walked with Kidnaper Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy to the office of Warden Joseph Ragen. Said Ragen to Prisoner 9306-D : "Leopold, you and Touhy have been granted paroles." Breathed Nathan Leopold, the nation's most publicized convict: "Thank the Lord...
...Rock Island railroad removed the nation's first operative lightweight train, the Talgo-type Jet Rocket, from the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run, put it to carrying commuters on the short haul between Joliet and Chicago...
Neither Rain nor Snow. In Joliet, Ill., arrested after postal inspectors found eleven bags of parcel-post packages, two cartons and two suitcases full of undelivered letters, cards, newspapers and magazines strewn over the floor of his bedroom, ex-Postman Alvin Timm explained that he had dumped the mail because he is subject to bunions and tires easily...