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The Markham Journal
Driver Pleads Guilty
WEEK-TV
July 25, 2006
PEORIA-BLOOMINGTON, IL - A Chicago-area motorist admits his role in a
2005 police chase that killed a local pedestrian in Bloomington.
65-year-old Art Kilgore died last year after being struck down by a car
on Oak Street.
McLean County prosecutors say Tonu Hurey of Markham, Illinois,
pleaded guilty Monday to one count of aggravated driving under the
influence.
Police say back in April of 2005, Hurey was fleeing authorities, when he
crashed his car and hit Kilgore who was standing on a sidewalk.
Kilgore later died at the hospital.
Tonu Hurey faces up to 30-years in prison when he is sentenced in
September.
WEEK-TV
July 25, 2006
PEORIA-BLOOMINGTON, IL - A Chicago-area motorist admits his role in a
2005 police chase that killed a local pedestrian in Bloomington.
65-year-old Art Kilgore died last year after being struck down by a car
on Oak Street.
McLean County prosecutors say Tonu Hurey of Markham, Illinois,
pleaded guilty Monday to one count of aggravated driving under the
influence.
Police say back in April of 2005, Hurey was fleeing authorities, when he
crashed his car and hit Kilgore who was standing on a sidewalk.
Kilgore later died at the hospital.
Tonu Hurey faces up to 30-years in prison when he is sentenced in
September.
New Home Rule Communities
Local Government Online
March 23, 2006
Citizens in at least four Illinois communities
voted to adopt home rule in Tuesday?s
primary election. Voters in Hazel Crest,
Markham, Phoenix and West Frankfort
adopted home rule which shifts greater
responsibility for local government
decision-making from the state to the local
level.
Home rule was approved in Markham by a
926 to 766 vote. City officials plan to use
home rule powers to generate taxes to pay
for repairs, create incentives to encourage
development and to establish a municipal
court. The community had sought home rule
in 2002, but the measure was defeated by
200 votes.
Local Government Online
March 23, 2006
Citizens in at least four Illinois communities
voted to adopt home rule in Tuesday?s
primary election. Voters in Hazel Crest,
Markham, Phoenix and West Frankfort
adopted home rule which shifts greater
responsibility for local government
decision-making from the state to the local
level.
Home rule was approved in Markham by a
926 to 766 vote. City officials plan to use
home rule powers to generate taxes to pay
for repairs, create incentives to encourage
development and to establish a municipal
court. The community had sought home rule
in 2002, but the measure was defeated by
200 votes.
Fire extinguished in vacant home in
Markham
June 19, 2006
FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS
No injuries were reported after a fire
broke out at a vacant home in
south suburban Markham early
Monday.
The fire, at a vacant house near
Rockwell Street and Thorndale
Avenue, was extinguished as of 4
a.m., according to a Markham
police dispatcher. No injuries were
reported, said the dispatcher.
The fire broke out about 2:40 a.m.,
she said.
Markham
June 19, 2006
FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS
No injuries were reported after a fire
broke out at a vacant home in
south suburban Markham early
Monday.
The fire, at a vacant house near
Rockwell Street and Thorndale
Avenue, was extinguished as of 4
a.m., according to a Markham
police dispatcher. No injuries were
reported, said the dispatcher.
The fire broke out about 2:40 a.m.,
she said.
22-year-old man killed in accident in
Markham
April 9, 2006
FROM STNGWIRE REPORTS
A 22-year-old South Holland man lost his life
in a multi-vehicle accident in south
suburban Markham Saturday.
Killed was Temas Champion, of the 16900
block of Parkside Ave., according to a
spokesman from the Cook County Medical
Examiner’s office.
Champion was pronounced dead at 3:40 p.
m. Saturday, according to the spokesman,
who added that Champion was the driver of
one of the vehicles involved in the accident.
The accident happened near the
intersection of 159th Street and Western
Avenue, according to a Markham police
officer who declined to be named.
The crash involved four vehicles, according
to a Markham firefighter who did not want to
be identified.
Further information was not immediately
available.
Markham
April 9, 2006
FROM STNGWIRE REPORTS
A 22-year-old South Holland man lost his life
in a multi-vehicle accident in south
suburban Markham Saturday.
Killed was Temas Champion, of the 16900
block of Parkside Ave., according to a
spokesman from the Cook County Medical
Examiner’s office.
Champion was pronounced dead at 3:40 p.
m. Saturday, according to the spokesman,
who added that Champion was the driver of
one of the vehicles involved in the accident.
The accident happened near the
intersection of 159th Street and Western
Avenue, according to a Markham police
officer who declined to be named.
The crash involved four vehicles, according
to a Markham firefighter who did not want to
be identified.
Further information was not immediately
available.
16 charged with lying to get housing benefits
By Rudolph Bush
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 18, 2006
Federal prosecutors announced Monday they
have filed charges against 16 people for lying to
get housing benefits totaling hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
The charges, both civil and criminal, came in
separate cases filed last week by the U.S. attorney's
office.
Giovanna Mendez, who worked for a private
company contracted to the Chicago Housing
Authority, was charged with embezzling nearly
$50,000 from the Housing Choice Voucher program
from 2000 to 2004.
Prosecutors allege Mendez, 35, of Chicago had the
authority to cut voucher-payment checks and
allegedly used it to forge 22 checks totaling
$49,732. She funneled the money into phony
landlord accounts for her own benefit, according
to the charges. Mendez was fired in 2004,
according to a CHA spokeswoman.
Her attorney, Matt Keenan, declined to comment.
Prosecutors charged Aserine Blevins, 66, of Markham
and her daughter, Terry Ann Littlepage, 47, of Oak
Forest with lying to get housing-voucher money.
Blevins and Littlepage are accused of falsely stating
that Blevins was Littlepage's tenant when Blevins
was the actual owner of the Markham home.
The alleged scam netted Littlepage $36,800 from
1998 to 2002, prosecutors charge.
A call to Blevins' home in Markham was not
immediately returned.
A second mother-daughter team, Onnie Johnson,
65, and Apphia Harris, 30, both of Chicago, are
accused of fraudulently obtaining $31,952 from the
voucher program from 2002 to 2004.
Prosecutors allege Johnson used the alias Annie
Mae Johnson to purportedly rent a South Side
home to Harris. Johnson was aware both that she
didn't own the home and that she was prohibited
from renting to her daughter, prosecutors allege.
Efforts to reach Harris and Johnson were
unsuccessful.
Seven of the 16 defendants also face lawsuits
alleging they were unjustly enriched through their
false claims.
If convicted, the defendants would face prison
time and fines and would be required to pay back
all of the allegedly ill-gotten money.
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rrbush@tribune.com
By Rudolph Bush
Tribune staff reporter
Published July 18, 2006
Federal prosecutors announced Monday they
have filed charges against 16 people for lying to
get housing benefits totaling hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
The charges, both civil and criminal, came in
separate cases filed last week by the U.S. attorney's
office.
Giovanna Mendez, who worked for a private
company contracted to the Chicago Housing
Authority, was charged with embezzling nearly
$50,000 from the Housing Choice Voucher program
from 2000 to 2004.
Prosecutors allege Mendez, 35, of Chicago had the
authority to cut voucher-payment checks and
allegedly used it to forge 22 checks totaling
$49,732. She funneled the money into phony
landlord accounts for her own benefit, according
to the charges. Mendez was fired in 2004,
according to a CHA spokeswoman.
Her attorney, Matt Keenan, declined to comment.
Prosecutors charged Aserine Blevins, 66, of Markham
and her daughter, Terry Ann Littlepage, 47, of Oak
Forest with lying to get housing-voucher money.
Blevins and Littlepage are accused of falsely stating
that Blevins was Littlepage's tenant when Blevins
was the actual owner of the Markham home.
The alleged scam netted Littlepage $36,800 from
1998 to 2002, prosecutors charge.
A call to Blevins' home in Markham was not
immediately returned.
A second mother-daughter team, Onnie Johnson,
65, and Apphia Harris, 30, both of Chicago, are
accused of fraudulently obtaining $31,952 from the
voucher program from 2002 to 2004.
Prosecutors allege Johnson used the alias Annie
Mae Johnson to purportedly rent a South Side
home to Harris. Johnson was aware both that she
didn't own the home and that she was prohibited
from renting to her daughter, prosecutors allege.
Efforts to reach Harris and Johnson were
unsuccessful.
Seven of the 16 defendants also face lawsuits
alleging they were unjustly enriched through their
false claims.
If convicted, the defendants would face prison
time and fines and would be required to pay back
all of the allegedly ill-gotten money.
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rrbush@tribune.com