A sign of the times?
MACHESNEY PARK the 58-year-old institution has filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Chapter 11 allows Concordia to stay open and restructure its debt. Its largest creditor is JP Morgan Chase Bank at $1.56 million.
Click on he following for more details: Concordia Lutheran's mission: ‘Survive, thrive’ after bankruptcy - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspected the center, 1230 S. Appleton Road, on June 15 and cited it for several violations, including missing cover plates for electrical boxes, no documentation of annual inspections for fire extinguishers and an electrical outlet held in place with duct tape.
Click on the following for more details: Boone County hurries to rid Animal Control of mice - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star
Here it is at last—a blow by blow account of the Governor’s trial and proceedings around the courthouse. A must view if deliberations ever end. All courtesy of the Chicago Sun Times.
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This article tells a great many things regarding the relationship between local government and school districts. It “can” be a very different give and take relationship than we have here in Boone County. Note how Moline inspects school building projects that does not happen in Boone County.
city paying the school in various ways in return for the district's support for increasing the life of the Moline Place Tax Increment Financing District by 12 years.
Provide free construction inspection services for the renovations at John Deere Middle School and Wilson Middle School in 2010 and 2011 until renovations are complete
Click on the following for more details: Moline seeks TIF pact with school - Quad Cities Online
20% rate increase, which will bump metered parking up to as much as $5 an hour.
Of the $771.3 million in lease proceeds that remained as of March 31 this year, $543.9 million is supposed to be spent by the end of the year to fill holes in the city's operating accounts
Yet another city parking meter fee hike coming soon | Greg Hinz | Crain's Chicago Business
Second City plans to put him on the stand and provide catharsis for all. At the end of the reprise engagement of "Rod Blagojevich Superstar," which begins Aug. 6, the hit Second City musical based on the life and times of the Blagojeviches, actor Joey Bland
Click on he following for more details: 'Blago' to testify in Arlington Heights - The Theater Loop
BP to sell $30 billion in assets before 2012 to pay for costs related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP on Tuesday set aside $32.2 billion to deal with the aftermath of the spill, leading to a record second-quarter loss of $17 billion. That compared with a $4.4 billion profit in the period a year ago.
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Robert Dudley is to become BP’s first non-British chief executive at the beginning of October, replacing Tony Hayward.
Click on the following for more details: Dudley Vows to Fulfill BP’s Commitments in the Gulf - NYTimes.com
