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8 Section 2 Chicago Tribune, Thursday, May 28, 1992 of the South Water Market and the other improvements is sometime within the next three years, city officials said. "This infusion of money and manpower represents a real commitment to upgrade all these underused segments of our infrastructure and make them' work," Daley said. "That's how you keep Chicago's economy growing." Daley then called on the federal government to match the city's investment plans. "If the federal government can match our commitment to invest in ourselves and in our infrastructure, we can look forward to even more growth and opportunity for the people of Chicago," he said. The Chicago Department of Planning and Development has created a comprehensive plan for industrial development of the West Side and is working on similar plans for the North and South Sides.

Daley said the new market and the other improvements could trigger some $200 million in private investment and result in the creation of some 6,500 new jobs. The city has retained the architectural firm of A. Epstein Sons to design the new market. The family-owned businesses in the South Water Market sell about one-third of their fresh fruit and vegetables in the Loop, mostly to restaurants, hotels and small gro-, cers. market the ability to expand and grow." As Daley spoke, dozens of trucks jockeyed for position at crowded loading docks.

People with businesses in the historic South Water Market were not shy about making their feelings known about the poor condition of the facility. "We have simply run out of room here," said Rosemary Au-ster, president of the Market Service Association and an owner of Auster Co. Inc. "We can't get in, we can't get out. We can't get loaded and unloaded easily.

And that ultimately affects what we have to charge our customers." Auster's criticism of Chicago's outdated industrial facilities and its crumbling infrastructure could be directed at any number of sites throughout the city and has, by businesses that have made the move to the more wide-open and accessible sites in the suburbs of Cook, Du Page, Lake and Will Counties. Old multistoried factories on cramped lots without enough parking are not attractive to more streamlined manufacturing operations, which require one-story facilities to accommodate new production processes, including automation and robotics. At the same time, Chicago's streets and bridges were not built to accommodate the huge trucks that ply today's roads. The timetable for the relocation Market Continued from page 1 $160 million bond issue announced last week by Daley, the first general obligation bonds issued by the city since 1987. The infrastructure portion is expected to come to $73 million.

"We're spending this $73 million on industrial parks and infrastructure improvements because we want the business community, here and everywhere, to know that Chicago is a good place for industry," Daley said. "We're making sure trucks can get in and out. We're making sure industrial and manufacturing companies have suitable sites. And for the people of Chicago, we're doing everything possible to bring jobs to their communities." Daley said some 1,500 people work at the existing, cramped 14-acre South Water Market, which generates annual sales of some $800 million. The workers' average annual salary is about $42,000, plus benefits, according to city officials.

At the new site, which will contain some 500,000 square feet and expandable to 1 million square feet, jobs could be created for an additional 1,500 people if the 70 companies working with the city move to the new market. "We have to do this if we want to keep the market in Chicago," Daley said. "This will give the (ft- ftvl Tribune Me photo Anthony J. Accardo (front, center) and other re- retired as full-time mob boss in 1956, giving the puted members of the hierarchy of the Chicago reins to Sam Giancana, but resumed active con-mob meet in 1978. According to the FBI, Accardo trol in the 1970s when Giancana went to prison.

calls to elected officials, and a let-, ter to the editor campaign targeted-to key community and Downstate media." But suburban legislative leaders opposed to an O'Hare expansion were unconvinced by the group's arguments, particularly for the in-' creased flight capacity that a new. runway would allow. "The real issue is that we've reached the limit at O'Hare for noise and certainly for safety, and we're not certain you can get more people into that airport and keep it economically viable even with a new runway," said Scott Hamilton, spokesman for House Republican Leader Lee Daniels. (R-Elmhurst). Gordon said that the group's ef-' fort would influence negotiations on a third-airport bill only if it wins the hearts and minds of con-' stituents who live near O'Hare: "If they can win over the people most impacted by this O'Hare expansion, then the legislators will Tribune reporter Rick Pearson contributed to this story.

about him, perhaps the most chilling account of violence attributed by law-enforcement authorities to Accardo arises from a minor burglary. In 1978, while Accardo vacationed in California, burglars brazenly entered his River Forest home. Within a month, five of the suspected thiefs were found slain gangland-style. Prosecutors at the time said they believed Accardo, furious that his lair had been violated, had ordered the killings. Nothing came of a subsequent investigation.

At a televised Senate appearance in 1958, Accardo invoked his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination 130 times in refusing to answer questions. In 1983, he again refused to answer questions from a Senate subcommittee dealing with his sources of income and his links to the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Union. He did tell the committee that he was "retired" but refused to say what he had retired from. He also said he was receiving Social Security benefits. Federal investigators said Joseph Aiuppa had taken over as chairman of the Chicago mob, with Accardo assuming the role of chairman emeritus.

A federal judge subsequently ordered Accardo to answer all the questions or go to jail. He averted the dilemma through medical reasons several times, including heart trouble, back trouble, lung surgery for cancer and because he had fallen and cut his head. When he finally testified in 1984, making his last Senate appearance, he told senators, "I have no knowledge of a crime family in Chicago." Accardo is survived by his wife, Clarice; two sons, Anthony Ross and Joseph Frank; two daughters, Marie Judith Kumerow and Linda Lee Palermo; a brother, three sisters; and six grandchildren. Accardo Continued from page 1 die a natural death. Over the years, Accardo was often referred to in media accounts by a variety of nicknames, the sources of which appeared to be rival mobsters, frustrated detectives or creative news reporters.

He was known as "Big Tuna," for his frequent fishing trips, "Joe Batters" and "J.B." But he seldom answered to any nickname unless in the company of close friends. Old police reports indicate "Batters," apparently overheard on an illegal wiretap, referred to Ac-cardo's prowess as a mob enforcer. He almost fell victim to a mob hit in 1954, when someone took a shot at him as he walked near his River Forest home after a meeting with Giancana, Sam Battaglia and Jack Cerone. Despite a long arrest record on charges of murder, kidnapping, extortion, tax fraud, union racketeering and gambling, Accardo was never convicted of a felony, and he boasted that he had never spent a night in jail. He was convicted of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, a total of three times in 1923 and 1924, vhen, as a surly, short-tempered treet hoodlum according to law-jnforcement officials he caught he eye of Capone.

The second of six children of talian immigrants Francesco and Maria Accardo, Antonino Leonardo Accardo (his baptismal name) was born on the Near West Side on April 28, 1906. His father was a shoemaker. Young Tony was able to drop out of elementary school at age 14 after his mother filed a delayed birth affidavit listing him as having been born in 1904, a year before she arrived in the United States. While in his teens, he became a truck driver in the bootleg alcohol trade in Chicago. According to Virgil Peterson, late operating director of the Chicago Crime Commission, Accardo was an associate of the Circus Cafe gang, whose members became affiliated with the Capone syndicate and were suspects in the 1929 St.

Valentine's Day massacre, in which seven gang rivals were killed. It was about that time that Capone made him one of his bodyguards. Antonino Leonardo became Anthony Joseph Accardo, and he made the crime commission's Public Enemy list in 1931. In 1934, Accardo married the former Clarice Porter in Crown Point, Ind. After Capone went to prison, the leadership of the crime syndicate passed to Nitti and Ricca, who used Accardo as their front man, according to the crime commission.

Nitti committed suicide, and Ricca went to prison in 1944 for an attempted multimillion-dollar extortion of the movie industry, leaving the door open for Accardo to take over. In 1950, the crime commission named Accardo No. 1 overlord of Chicago's crime syndicate. He had been an enduring influence on the city's reputation ever since. In 1956, Accardo retired as full-time head of the Chicago mob, turning control over to Giancana, according to the FBI.

But when Giancana went to prison briefly in the early 1970s, Accardo resumed active control, law-enforcement officials said. Giancana was shot to death in his Oak Park home in 1975. For more than 40 years, Accardo lived in River Forest, once in a palatial, 22-room mansion at 915 Franklin later in a smaller home and eventually in a condominium on Harlem Avenue. For the last 20 years, he spent most of his time in Palm Springs. Of all that has been written Biggest losers O'Hare Continued from page 1 runways at O'Hare.

The group's position against an O'Hare-Lake Calumet linkage recalls an incident this past winter when Mayor Richard Daley, in the course of third airport negotiations with Gov. Jim Edgar, proposed a conditional ban on new runways at O'Hare in exchange for suburban support for Lake Calumet. In the end, the Daley-Edgar Lake Calumet Airport memorandum of understanding made no mention of O'Hare, and Mitchell said he wants things to stay that way. "We simply cannot afford to jeopardize O'Hare's future by trading away O'Hare's viability to appease a vocal minority of people," he said. Mitchell predicted that a new runway would mean at least 15,000 new jobs for the region by 1995 and more than 21,000 jobs by 2010.

Without the runway, he 0. DREAMS said, "Our region will lose business to other airports in the Midwest. And these other airports are actively working to increase their traffic at O'Hare's expense." The Schaumburg-based Northwest Suburban Association of Commerce and Industry, the Chambers of Commerce of Elgin and Rolling Meadows, the newly formed Coalition of Chambers of Suburban Cook County, the Hotel-Motel Association of Illinois, and the Rosemont Convention and Visitors Bureau also were represented at the Wednesday news conference. "We want to continue to reiterate our support for an O'Hare airport improvement and modernization, the addition of at least one runway and construction of a western access road" to O'Hare, said Laura Davis, executive director of the Northwest Suburban Association. In the words of its position statement, the O'Hare group's purpose is "coalition-building, grass roots mobilization, public endorsements, letters and phone fl mf rJ rn Welcome to a upholstered creating fine Accessory." ISiiiii n'lSf can help make From living opportunity to 0 COME Welcome to a world of comfortable surroundings in contemporary styling.

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Right now, it doesn't look very equitable," said Sen. Martin Butler (R-Park Ridge), noting that Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights could lose $2 million under the plan. The program would place taxes on hospital, nursing homes and developmental disability facilities that would add up to $735 million over the course of the year. The state would then hold up that money as its share of Medicaid funding for the poor. The federal government would then match that money with another $735 million, and the entire $1.47 billion would be given to the hospitals and nursing homes.

Many states have turned to such schemes because the recession has left them with little money at a time when the costs of Medicaid service are going through the roof. The state's Medicaid bill in 1993 will be over $4 billion. The plan is similar to one in place this year, except that new federal guidelines require that the assessments be levied ojk all health- Chicago Tribune to reduce Medicaid rates to healthcare facilities by 30 percent, which he said would lead to many hospitals closing. And he dismissed the notion of raising the income tax, an idea that neither he nor the members of the General Assembly can swallow this election year. Worried legislators pored over figures on how the plan would affect hospitals in their districts.

"When I looked at what it does for my county, oooohhhhh," said Senate Republican Leader James "Pate" Philip of Wood Dale. According to administration figures, nursing homes in Du Page County would see a total increase of $9.5 million in funding. But Du Page hospitals would lose a combined $4.7 million. "That's not good at all, but do I have an alternative? I do not," Philip said. "If it's the only game in town, I guess I'm forced into voting for it." Democrats said they would reserve judgment until they could study the impact of the plan more closely.

"Something has to be done, but whether this is the alternative or there's another one remains to be seen," said Senate President Philip Rock (D-Oak Park). care services, not just Medicaid services. The current plan targeted the tax to hospitals with heavy Medicaid patient loads, but federal officials rejected that approach last year as a scam that added to the federal deficit. Edgar called the new plan "a fair, realistic and humane way to ensure that those providing health care to the needy of this state can continue to serve them without increasing the income tax." The governor said 80 percent of hospitals would benefit from the program, and it would allow those in the worst financial shape to keep operating. "Most of the remaining 20 percent are doing very well financially, and will be able to pay their assessments without raising rates.

Many of these hospitals are in much better shape than the State of Illinois," Edgar said. The governor said the administration would again work with hospitals to help them meet assessment payments, possibly helping them secure short-term loans. He arid the state would provide additional protection for hospitals that are the only health-care provider in their communities. Edgar said the onldternative is if "interiors SPECIAL SALE PRICES ON ALL -BEDROOM GROUPS FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY..