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...Joliet, IL and Eliot House...
...families of John Wayne Gacy's victims, his death was long anticipated. Just past midnight last Tuesday, the man who tortured and murdered 33 young men and boys during the 1970s would be executed by lethal injection at the Stateville penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. Justice would be served, swift and clean, as three chemicals were introduced intravenously into his bloodstream. The first drug would knock him out, the second would suppress his breathing, the last would stop his heart. The procedure would take no more than five minutes. But Gacy would take 18 minutes to die. A clog developed...
...swept away from a group of teachers seeking safety in the school and was killed. Nine residents of the town of Crest Hill died $ when they were sucked from their three-story apartment complex and hurled 40 ft. away into a cornfield. In the tornado's swath across Joliet and neighboring small towns, at least 27 people died and more than 90 others were injured. Damage wrought by gusts powerful enough to toss dumpsters into trees was placed at more than $100 million...
...Tired is my middle name," says Carol Rohder, 41, a single mother of three in Joliet, Ill. She works days as a medical technician and four nights a week as a waitress. "I'm exhausted all the time. I didn't think it would be this hard on my own. I thought once I was divorced the pressure would...
Sound like a feminist tract? In fact, those observations come from the first draft of a major policy statement on women by American bishops. The 164-page paper, Partners in the Mystery of Redemption, was written by a panel of six bishops chaired by Joseph Imesch of Joliet, Ill., with the assistance of five scholars and two staffers -- all women. The text was released last week for reactions, after being unanimously approved by the U.S. hierarchy's 50-member administrative board...