U.S. Army Corps of Engineers accused of reneging on a 1982 deal to cover the 45-acre dump once it was filled with toxic sediment dredged from the Calumet River and the Cal Sag Channel.
Before U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Durkin Crestwood Mayor Louis Presta to 366 days in federal prison, he questioned how many tickets the village has issued were actually warranted while a lawsuit challenging the validity of tens of thousands of citations continues.
Once heavily hunted by fur trappers, river otters in Illinois gained state protection in the 1920s and their population numbered fewer than 100 by the 1970s, according to an IDNR