Officers of the Illinois Municipal League PRESIDENT J. RUSSELL CHRISTIANSON, Village President    Oak Park FIRST VICE PRESIDENT JOHN J. NOEL, Village President,    Mundelein SERGEANT-AT-ARMS WILLIAM H. WINTERHOFF, Supervisor, Thorton Township EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR A. L. SARGENT VICE PRESIDENTS ALTON      Mayor P. W. Day BELLEVILLE      Mayor Jerome J. Munie BELVIDERE      Mayor Lester Cunningham BLOOMINGTON      Mayor Bob McGraw BROADVIEW      Village President Merritt Braga BROOKFIELD      Village President Fred Kuehn CAIRO      Mayor Paul Baur CALUMET CITY      Mayor Stanley Bejger CENTRALIA      Mayor H. B. Blanchard CHICAGO      Mayor Richard J. Daley CLINTON      Commissioner C. E. Corrington DECATUR      Mayor Clarence A. Sablotny DE KALB      Mayor Clayton Pooler DOWNERS GROVE      Mayor B. H. Groves EAST ST. LOUIS      Mayor Alvin Fields EVANSTON      Mayor John Kimbark FREEPORT      Mayor Glen Kunkle GALESBURG      Mayor William H. Small HILLSIDE      Village President Roman J. Binder JACKSONVILLE      Mayor Robert DuBois JOLIET      Mayor James T. Hennessy KANKAKEE      Mayor Edward Madison LA SALLE      Mayor B. D. Bruno MATTOON      Mayor Morgan F. Phipps MELROSE PARK      Village President Andy Frenzel MOLINE      Mayor Arnold Smith MONMOUTH      Mayor Donovan Vance MUNDELEIN      Village President John J. Noel PARIS      Mayor T. J. Trogdon, Jr. PEORIA      Mayor Eugene Leiter PINCKNEYVILLE      Mayor Wm. J. Cunningham RIVERSIDE      Village President William Hajeck ROCKFORD      Mayor Benjamin T. Schleicher SPRINGFIELD      Mayor Nelson O. Howarth TAYLORVILLE      Mayor Thomas Sweeney WAUKEGAN      Mayor Robert Sabonjian PAST PRESIDENTS A. E. Turngren, Mayor, Harvey Charles Wellner, Mayor, Naperville A.L. SARGENT--Editor DOROTHY COLEMAN NICKELSON--Assistant Editor

CITY HALL GOSSIP

AROUND THE STATE

A new metered 16 space uptown parking lot has been opened in Lincoln . . . Mayor John Wright of Carbondale recently dedicated that city's new downtown street lighting system . . . Moline has sold its $1,165,000 water revenue bond issue at an interest rate of 3.894 . . . Preliminary plans for a $289,000 municipal building have been approved by the Normal city council, a G.O. bond referendum on the proposition will be held in January . . . Mundelein, a special census has placed the village population at 9,735, an increase of 3,234 people . . . Villa Grove, a special census indicates an increase in population of 262 people for a total of 2,288.

Downers Grove has dedicated its new $200,000 police station and magistrates' court . . . Granite City—Tweetie Pie is dead!—and the city council, while not agreeing the city's insect spray machine was responsible, has decided to pay $25 to the owner of the canary. City attorney William Beatty recommended payment of the claim on the grounds it would be cheaper than to exhume the bird's body and conduct a post-mortem.

Deerfield, ground breaking ceremonies have been held for the new $1,500,000 Deerfield Commons Shopping Center ... St. Charles' Mayor Ralph Richmond has accepted a $100,000 check as a gift from Col. E. J. Baker to the city. Col. Baker presented the check with instructions to " . . . expend this gift in the way in which you, as city representatives, feel is for the best." . . . Vandalia, the city council has accepted the gift of a site and $100,000 by Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Evans for a new library.

APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS

Gibson City, alderman Charles Hall has been named acting Mayor during the prolonged absence, due to illness, of Mayor Henry Hager . . . Augustus N. Knigge has been named to fulfill the unexpired term of trustee C. A. Scribner of Lake Zurich, who resigned . . . Alderman C. R. Fitzpatrick of Murphysboro has resigned . . . Voters in Rockford have elected two new aldermen, Mrs. Alice Garlock and William Burns . . .

BOND ISSUES

Vandalia, the city council has authorized the sale of $395,000 in sewer revenue bonds for construction of sewage disposal plant . . . Rockford voters have rejected two propositions: First to levy a forestry tax and second to increase the garbage tax rate . . . Loves Park voters rejected a $120,000 issue to construct a water filtration plant, by an 85 vote margin ...

DEATHS

William O. Woods of Canton, the father of Mayor Paul Woods . . . Robert L. Scott, member of the Carlinville Board of Police Commissioners . . . Mayor Thomas Nye Troutner of Pittsfield . . . Oscar A. Mulhausen, former alderman and secretary of the Berwyn Police and Fire Commission . . . George H. Parrick, former mayor of Vermont . . . Alderman Frank Micek of Chicago ... Mrs. Rilla M. Hedrick, the widow of former Mayor James A. Hedrick of Decatur ...