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...prison system. Hoover held jailhouse meetings, dictated memos and issued orders into his cell phone. He wore $400 alligator boots, dined on specially prepared food and splashed himself with expensive cologne. Payoffs to corrections officers permitted his bodyguards to arm themselves with shanks and bedposts. At one prison near Joliet, they even bragged about having keys to every door in the facility except the one to the outside...
CLEM BALANOFF (D) District 11 (South Chicago suburbs and exburbs--Joliet...
BORN: April 16, 1953, Chicago EDUCATION: Ripon College, 1971-73 FAMILY: Wife, Virginia; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Real estate-company owner POLITICAL CAREER: Illinois House, 1989-95; sought Democratic nomination for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3769, Joliet...
Speck, who was convicted of the 1966 slayings of eight student nurses, spent 25 years in Stateville Correctional Center, a maximum-security lockup in Joliet, until he died, apparently of a heart attack. On the tape, Speck boasts about the murders. "Strangle a person? It ain't like you see on TV," he says. "You have to go at it for about 3 1/2 minutes. It takes a lot of strength...
...economic "models" to bolster their attacks against the gaming-entertainment industry. Actual statistical and empirical data from state and local jurisdictions that have adopted gambling show these so-called models to be totally unreliable and inaccurate. Once depressed communities are now enjoying economic growth and prosperity. For example, in Joliet, Illinois, the industry employs approximately 4,000 people with an annual payroll of $86 million, and in Tunica, Mississippi, 10,000 people with an annual payroll of $220 million. These jobs have helped reduce the demand on state and local governments for social-service assistance. Since 1992 Tunica has experienced...