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THE MEGXM! y FZ4-o4 2e2CCR rvews GORECKI Judge bounces. From page Al be temporary or permanent. "We'llgo forward with the meet- Gorecki's fate ing and make sure there is no un- certainty with the situation,' County Board Chairman Mike McCoy said after Colwell's ruling. .The Illinois Supreme Court sus- back to Kane pended Gorecki's license over eth- ical misconduct charges stem- Matter heads to special. ming from a bribery scheme later found to be bogus: The suspen- board meeting Monday sion effectively bars Gorecki from acting as state's attorney for four By Daniel Duggan months, starting Sunday. STAFF WRITER Earlier this week, 16th Circuit Chief Judge Philip DiMarzio GENEVA - A Kane County on named Katherine Moran as "spe- judge chose Friday not to take a cial state's attorney" to serve dur- stand on the issue of how to fill the ing the four-month suspension of office of state's attorney, setting the Gorecki's license. yes, then a candidate for the post stage for an explosive meeting of ljiMarzio's action followed the the Kane County Board on Monday. would have to be nominated, and lead set by Illinois Attorney Gener- the board would vote on that per- In the ongoing saga dealing with al-Usa Madigan, who issued an the suspension of Kane County son. opinion indicating Gorecki still McCoy has said he is happy State's Attorney Meg Gorecici's law can hold her office but that a spe- license, 16th Circuit Court judge with DiMarzio's appointment of cial state's attorney should be ap- Moran and supports her, but he Michael CoIwell's ruling had been pointed in the interim by the cir- expected to shed some light on the stressed it is a decision to be made cuit court. - by the County Board. unprecedented situation. Contrary to Madigan's opinion, - Instead, he declared the issue is One of Gorecki's top deputies, not a controversy ripe for judicial some Kane County Board mem- however, said he planned to warn bers believe there will be a 'vacan- board members they would be resolution.' cy" in Gorecki's office. If the board The County Board now must "acting without legal authority" declares the office vacant, Gorecki should they choose to declare the decide the fate of Gorecki's term - would not be permitted to return whether her removal from office will Inside office vacant. to the position afteraft the four- "1 don't evensee a question," U Kane Board members had mixed • Turn to month suspension. said Michael Coghian, deputy CORECIU, AZ opinions on Monday's meeting. Gorecki filed a lawsuit against chief of the state's attorney's of- McCoy and the County Board, ask- fice. 'She's coming back.' ing the court to stop them from de- Gorecki, who was;in court on claring' a vacancy. Friday, howev- Friday prosecuting a case, walked er, Colwell simply said the County away from reporter's who asked Board should follow the law. for comment, saying she had to The circuit court has no right to meet with a murder victim's fami- presume that the County Board ly. She did not make herself avail- will not follow the applicable law as able for comment following her it relates to the existence of a va- meeting. cancy in the office of Kane County It was unclear when, or if, states attorney," the judge said, Gorecki would move from her of- McCoy said the matter now is in fide. the hands of the 26 County Board "Her office looks full to me. members. She's not clearing out. She's not At the B am. Monday meeting, - leaving," Coghlan said. 'She's the the board first will decide whether state's attorney" there is a vacancy in the state's at- Staff writer Mike Cetera con- torney's office. H the board votes tributed to this report.

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FROM STAFF REPORTS crease their property values and pose health risks for those living near the CornEd, which raised a furor last high-voltage lines. year when it announced plans to The proposal was considered so string up 16 miles of heavy-duty controversial that residents formed power lines along Randall Road from an activist group, People United for South Elgin to North Aurora, now Responsible Energy, and Ii Gov. Pat says the project no longer may be Quinn entered the discussion. necessary. Last summer, CornEd agreed to According to CornEd, an updated stall its plan, asking the Illinois Com- study found that its proposed Randall merce Commission to stay its propos- Road transmission line no longer is al while an alternative was sought A the least-expensive way to serve fu- task force was formed - made up of ture electrical needs. representatives of PURE, ComEd, CornEd spokeswoman Meg the Kane County Board, the villages Amato said Saturday the utility found of South Elgin and North Aurora, and it could take advantage of automation the cities of Batavia, Geneva and St. to use existing low-voltage power Charles. lines to provide reliable, expanded 'We've been meeting since May... electrical service to the area. Some of • Right now, we're in a mode to share those existing lines, she said, might information, and we've been working have to be extended or have branch- very closely with the task force," es installed. Amato said. At the same time, she 'These are the low-voltage lines said, the utility was seeking ways to running on wooden poles familiar to improve its efficiency. most people," she said, pointing out One of those ways, the utility that the new plan would deliver elec- found, was finding new uses for its au- trical service in a way that creates lit- tomation capabilities. That helped tle change to the visual landscape. spark the latest option. The utility's original proposal was "ComEd thinks this better serves to string a 138,000-volt power line on the community," Amato said, adding 80- to 120-foot-tall steel poles along the utility is continuing to work with the Randall Road commercial corri- the task force. dor to .feed a growing demand for The next step could be a request to electricity there. the ICC to review the low-voltage The utility's plan sparked a furor power line option, although she among residents along the corridor. stressed there has been no decision They feared the project would de- on the plan yet

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Newspaper delivery variance is needed because the muse- Joe Weber, circulation manager The Heritage Preservation Founds-- um is located in a mostly residential lion in Washington, D.C., gave the mu- Customer service phones neighborhood: seum a grant to fund some of the (030) 844-5800 or (800) 244-5844 The museum board continued with preservation work on the property. Customer service e-mail [email protected] . its renovation and made plans to re-- Private donations also have been Customer service hours open even though the County Board made. :30 a.m.- 6 p.m.. weekdays has not agreed to the variance re-- 1 told him that instead of fighting, 7-11 am, weekends quest But the County Board has his- he should just do the things they are •S:30-10 a.m. holidays. torically deferred to the decisions of its asking him to do," Bates said. "So we Home delivery times committees, Mullen said. got a (not-for-profit status), got incor- 6:30 am. weekdays and holidays "They're doing (the opening plans) porated, and the last step was to do the 7a.m. Saturdays. 8a.m. Sundays. at their own risk but they can be rela- preservation. The zoning took a little If you do not receive your paper by tively comfortable in thinking that it bit longer than we would have liked, our delivery deadline, please call customer service before 10a.m. Will be approved by the County Board but now, its done." weekdays (or 11 a-m. weekends) since it has already been approved by Tentative plans are for an open and we will deliver your paper by the Zoning Boatd and Development house at the museum from 10 am. to • noon. . Committee," Mullen said 5 p.m. on Feb. 28, with a ceremony Since Smith, who was not available sometime during the afternoon. - '"meHome deliverde1ivery $3.25 weekly: $2.25 for comnient, began transforming his Eventually, Bates will try to per- Edday-Sunday; $1.50 Sunday (plus intermittent holiday issues) property with his artwork in 1986, suade the board to hire a local curator Mall subscriptions: $4 weekly, there have been nuisance ordinance to help care for the pieces and run Newsstand prices: 50 cents daily. complaints from neighbors about the tours. 11.59 Sunday. materials he kept in the back yard. Almost all of the renovation and Smith moved to New Orleans in preservation work is finished, which Advertising 2002 and has established a similar mu- will enable staff to get pieces out of Display advertising sewn there, but he still owns the mu- storage and bring them back to the Robert Wall, manager seum and land in Aurora. Call (630) 844-5858 from 8a.m. to 5 museum in the next few weeks. p.m. weekdays. A Vietnam veteran, Smith created Fellows marvels at the fact that Classified advettlslng hundreds of pieces symbolizing the many of Smith's works are going all Call (630) 844-5811 from 8:30 a.m. to struggles of black people. It includes over the country for display. 5p.m. weekdays. exhibits depicting the earliest African- "When the Smithsonian wants to On-line advertising. American history - blacks being display your stuff, that's when you Brent Albrecht, manager rounded up in their homeland, know you're the man," Fellows said Call (815) 439-4377 from 8:30 am, to chained and brought to the United with alaugh. 5 p.m. weekdays States as slaves. The national and international at- Obituaries "Each piece tells a specific story of tention the museum has garnered Call (630) 844-5837 between 8a.m. the African-American experience," over the years makes what he says is a and .8 p.m. weekdays or 4-8 p.m. Smith said in a 1998 interview. "It's lack of local recognition all the more weekends and holidays one man's love for God, his culture shocking. and his people." Fellows feels the museum can aid Newsroom Jim King, managing editor The private Kohler Foundation of Aurora in generating more tourism .Newsroom number. (630) 844-5900 Wisconsin, which is specifically inter- revenue and giving black children a ested-in the work of self-taught artists sense of where they come from and :Newsroom fez (630) 844-1043 such as Smith, had purchased many of improved self-esteem. Send e-mail to staff members at first initial last name @ scnl.com Smith's works in 2001 and distributed 'To this day, F don't think its been Exampk [email protected] them to museums around the country received by Aurora," Fellows said. question or complaint? Call Jim for display. The Smithsonian Institu- 'We want Aurora to respect the muse- King (630) 844-5881 tion plans to display 16 pieces this um, and for the children to benefit To suggest a story or photo: Call City year. from it. Going throughthe legalization Editor John Russell (630) 844-5902 Jessie Bates, a private consultant of everything, the zoning and things, To submit a press release: Call commu- who helped implement the plan to re- makes it legitimate. nities editor Jolene Kremer or Dixie - furbish the museum and informs 'The fight is over, and now, we're 'Endicott at (630) 844-5880 Smith of progress on a regular basis, looking for respectability." 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Gorecki would forfeit her pay- Kane County Gorecki check while suspended. Continued from page 1 Even though the state re- Al Chronicle imburses Kane County for Larry Wechter of Geneva, about $118,000 of Goreeki's - Gorecki's attorney, declined salary, the issue is enough to AfgF to comment after Friday's convince some board mem- mo]. hearing. Gorecki, too, main- bers to vote Gorecki perina- Pre The Kane County Chronicle is $ tained her silence on the mat- nently out of office. -tod published Sunday through Saturday. ter as she has since she was • "She gets to take a four7 USPS No. 386190 prosecuted for misconduct by • month vacation and collect ldlle Postmaster: Send address a state disciplinary panel. her salary so nothing hap- changes to: pens," said Paul Greviskes, D- .Jan. Gorecki. -spent most of Talil Kane County Chronicle Friday in meetings and had Aurora, who said he considers 1000 Randall Road not cleared out her small of- Gorecki's office vacant effec- Geneva, IL 60134 fice in the west wing of the •.tive Sunday. "She can be on a Periodicals postage paid in Geneva, Kane County Judicial Center • beach someplace , sipping IL 60134 in St. Charles, Assistant Kane margaritas," P1 All rights reserved. Copyright 2003 County - State's Attorney Still, a canvas of the Con Kane County Chronicle. Michael Coghian said. county board Friday indi- Published since 1881 Coghlan, the deputy chief cated- a stalemate, although - several members remained SUBSCRIPTION RATES of the criminal division, said Assi 3riio, 6rno. Year Gorecki has divided among undecided on their vote. goiai Kane County $35.10 $58.50 $104 her assistants a list of cases to McCoy would break any tie, whe Out otcounty $45.00 $84.50 $156 prosecute, meetings to attend but did not indicate his deci- (Local rates include Wayne and West Chicago) and programs to oversee in sion., - Men her absence. Of '14 board members pal OuR Daivaty Poticy "It was a pretty long list," available for comment, five en- Our policy is to deliver your paper by Coghian said. "I assume that dorsed declaring Gorecki's of- 5:30 am. Monday through Friday represented part of her work fice vacant, five opposed and tion and by 6:30 am. Saturday and load." four said they are undecided. turn Sunday. if delivery problems occur, Colwell's order did not ad- Many cited Mad.igan's 15-page call our customer service department dress part of the lawsuit ques- opinion that maintains that he sr before 10:30 am. and we will deliver tioning -Madigan's opinion Gorecki's suspension is tempo- latin your newspaper before hoon. that also called on Kane rary. I Customer service: (630) 232-9239 County judges to appoint a 'Based on what I've seen, I call CONTACI-ING THE NEWSROOM special state's attorney while tend to lean toward the attor- was Newsroom, direct (630) 845-5355 Gorecki is suspended. ney general's and chiefjudge's Sound Oft (630) 232-9238 Gorecki sought to name her 'opinion," said Daniel Walter, out' Main number. (630) 232-9255 own substitute. fl-South Elgin. "As I see it, waft News tip Fme Ext.355 Oti Tuesaay, Chief Judge there isn't a vacancy." of cli Business news Ext355 Philip L DiMarzio directed "I'd like her to comeback, 11 FeaturesE-mail: [email protected] Katherine Moran, chief of the I know she wants to," said lems Ext 355 civil division, to serve until Barbara Wojnicki, ' B-St. cies. E-mail: [email protected] Gorecki can return June 1. Charles. "I think she's done an C Deaths, familyalbum Ext. 355 exemplary job." ter ii E-mail: EorroR1k'1

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By PAUL ROCK Kane County Chronicle • system, the utility would be able to electronicallymonitor • CornEd- representative its powerlines and implement believe they have a solution s idle. transformer substations o forbackuppower. - the controversy over the high • voltage transmission line The automation system • proposed along Randall Road-s would not require ICC ap- • St. Charles officials are noi. provaJ,Cod spokeswoman so sure. t MegAmato said. , - Represena5 the "By using automation we from. will enhance the reliability of utility met Friday in Bataviz1 with representatives from the the system," Amato said. "This Th-Cities to consider a recent would provide the same relia- bility of the Randall Road study that $pws CornEd could withdraw its petition to transmission lines." the Interstate Commerce The new proposal would Commission . requesting to require fewer infrastructure. build 138-kilovolt power lines improvements and would along Randall Road between cost "several million" dollars South Elgin and Batavia. less than the Randall Road CornEd and local officials Proposal, Amato said. say the lines are heeded to • CornEd vice . president • meet the requirementsof a • George Lofton said that while rapidly growing population in the automationtechnology central Kane County. has existed since 2000, it had The ICC petition has been not been used as an applica- - on hold for several months tion for substations. The util- while CornEd and the cities ity has been studying better discuss alternatives to placing alternatives to the Randall the lines On Randall Road. Road proposal since May Instead of the Randall Lofton said the automa- Road lines, CornEd would im- tion system "takes advantage plement an automation sys- Of new technology and a new tern it says would reduce the operational approach.. We strain on the power grid but think that's good news for the would not require additional residents of these communi- .high-voltage lines. ties." Under the automation See POWER, page 2 F

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1 Ciiizens for Sue Norris, FUNDRAISER F Republican candidate for Kane County Circuit Clerk, are Republican Candidate for r sponsoring a spaghetti dinner • fund-raiser on Feb. 10 at Aurora • Kane County Circuit Clerk • In • Turner's, 1335 Mitchell Road in r •. •• In Anrora. The event, featuring • raffles and a cash bar, will be •• Wednesday, Feb 4th r held from 5 to 8p.m. Tickets are •C7fl 0.71% pm . . $15 at the door. Visit the Web r sitewww.vote4suenorris.org or at call (630) 742-1271. F: Jimmy's . Charho use F • 2290 Point Blvd.-Elgin (Located just off Randall Rd. North of 1-90) • Appetizers and Cash Bar. Suggested Donation is $50.00 F • Tickets are available at the door. r r For additional information visit her web site: r F www.vote4suenorris.org - r • Or call 630.742.1271 F Sponsored by Citizens for Sue Norris. 3Ot/ 0/ tOn ide Rival candidates have raised most campaignS - money By PATRICK WALORON staff mark that requires a candidate to Daily Herald Wite ifie papers. His campaign m ager said Letter hit that in this • The leading candidates for month, after: the filing -period Kane County state's attorney ended. -, - won't be setting fund-raising At the top of the race, Barsanti records, but they are pulling is collecting thousands from col- • apart from most of the county- leagues withhigh profiles in wide political field with cash Kane County's criminal court- campaign accounts toping rooms. Money has come infrom $20,000. supporters such as well-known State's attorney hopeful John defense attorneys Van Richards Barsantj of St Charles outdid and Glen Sowa as well as Patrick everyone in competitive races by Kinnally, who was hired by the bringing in $24,973 between July county board chairman to I and Dec. 31, 2003, according to research the future of incumbent the latest campaign finance state's attorney Meg Gorecki. records., Gorecki is now serving her 'We've gotten very good dona- four-month Illinois Supreme tions," Barsanti said; We've got court ordered law license sus- 100 people working for us pension for ethics violations and through volunteer committees. is not seeking re-election; People are really motivated and O'Neil, too, has a list of promi- working hard." nent lawyers on his campaign Barsanti's chief rival for the contribution list, many of them Prosecutor job, Tim O'Neil, of St. civil attorneys like David McCar- Charles, isn't far behind in the die, who represented a developer fund-raising race having brought that tried to locate a garbage in$21,875, finance-records say. transfer station in Cary O'Neil says all of that came in O'Neil also picked up $500 and since October, when he entered an endorsement from Kane thence. - County Board Chairman Mike "I thJrik I did pretty well for get- McCoy. McCoy transfei-red the ting in it at Halloween," O'Neil money from his campaign fund. said; "I think that indicates the The only fund-raising rival to level of support i have." top states attorney candidates is The race's other two candi- ArneySilvestri, who is seeking the - dates lag far behind in the money District 14 countyboard seat H • race, records show. Primarily on the backs of real - Joe Rago of Geneva brought in estate developers, -Silvestri has $7,884 since July l. brought in $20,178, more than Michael Leuer -of Geneva did any candidate in any other race not have a campaign finance in the county with the exception report because his organization of state's attorney and county did not reach the $3,000 bench- board chairman.

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S Gorecki have 3 Upon retUrn By William Presecky sion that took effect Sunday. attorney for the county who One of Gorecki's cliiefassls- Tribune staff reporter - She has said she will not seek argued successfully in Circuit tants was sworn in Sunday to re-election. Court last week that it was the act with the full powers and Even with her law license Barring any unforeseen liti- board's prerogative to decide authority of the office til suspended for four months, gatlon, - attorneys familiar whether a vacancy existed. Gorecki's suspension is con- Kane County State's Atty Meg with Gorecki's unprecedented Gorecki was unavailable for chided. Gorecki can return to her of- circumstances said the comment. Special State's Atty. M. lice June 1 and work until Nov board's vote ends an unrelent- But her , chief deputy Mi- Katherine Moran, 51, of Gene- 30, the end of her term, the ing political and legal contro- chael Coghian, said the vote Va, will be paid on a pro-rata County Board concluded Mon- versy thathas doggedKanefor ensures that Gorecki will basis forfour months based on day nearly four years. 'never not be the state's attor- Gorecki's annual salary of The board voted 14-10 not to "It's settled now. This is the nay" during the next 10 about $120,000.. Moran had declare Gorecki's elective post final decision by the County months. Ibeen chief of the office's civil vacant as a result of a four- Board," said Patrick Kthnally, "I don't see any further lit!- month, court-ordered suspen- of Aurora, a special assistant gation," he said. PLEASE SEE GOHECKL PAGE 4

- that the board had taken the cor- . GORECKt- rect action, he said. After Madigan's opinion, Di- Marzio ordered Moran's inter- Assistant. im appointment as special state's attorney. Then Colwell dismissed a law- supervising suit by Gorecki In which she sought to pre-empt the County Board from considering the office now matter. McCoy said he saw in Col- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 well's order a hint to note a Nov. division since Gorecki hired 20 state SUpreme Court opinion her in January 2001. that ordered "the suspension Gorecki notified the county's and not the revocation of [Go- payroll department last week recki's] license." that she did not want to be paid a Coghlan said Gorecki was not salary while suspended. in the office Monday. She did not Hattie been required to cast a tell him what her plans would be tie-breaking vote whether to de- until she returns to practice, he clare a vacancy, County Board said. Chairman Mike McCoy (R-Au- While divid- rora) said he would have opted ed on the issue to maintain the status quo. Pre- of vacancy, viously, McCoy had indicated he -none of the favored declaring a vacancy County Board "I would have voted 'no vacan- - 4 members who cy' [exists]," said McCoy, who spoke Monday decided to call a special meeting was critical of to force a resolution of the dis- Gorecki's man- pute and to ensure that the in- - agement of the tegrity of the state's attorney's Gorecki office. Nearly office was maintained without fl all said their interruption. McCoy said un- - constituents were tired of the certainty surrounding Goreck- controversy and implored i's ability to remain state's at- board members to end it. torney while her license was The state Supreme Court or- suspended had diminishedfroni dered Gorecki's suspension be- the time he scheduled the spe- cause of an incident of unethical cial board meeting. conduct in 1998, before she ran A subsequent legal opinion by for office, when she suggested fflinois Atty Gen. Lisa Madigan falsely to a friend that McCoy and related court orders by could be bribed in exchange for Chief Judge Philip DiMarzio on a county job. Jan. 27, and Judge Michael Col- McCoy was cleared of any well on Friday, convinced him wrongdoing. Bill Chronicle Page Break out. the broom On July 1, St. Charles School District up, 303 is it. With her hiring, Dr. Erwin has 303 welcomes its new superintendent, been given the go-ahead to start swinging Barbara Erwin. DL Erwin comes here after the broom. Here's hoping she makes it a stints as superintendent in Arizona, Texas clean sweep. and Indiana. Her reputation is that of a no-nonsense administratOr who turns Someone please tell me why Joe Rago around troubled organizations, much like - and Mike Leiter still are in the race for the a corporate "fixer" in the business world. Republican nomination for state's attor- There's not much doubt that that particu- ney? Neither has run anything close to a lar skill is going to be put to the test as recognizable campaign, garnered any im- soon as she walks in the door. portant endorsements or raised enough District 303, despite the booster-ish money to make any kind of impact. hype, is a district in trouble. Long plagued I don't doubt that both truly beli?ve by a leadership vacuum, the district does they are the right guy for the job, but fel- not enjoy the support of the majority.of las, it takes votes to win this job. Votesyoa parents and taxpayers. The manner in ain't got. Time to turn out the lights and which the mold crisis was handed has left call it a day. scars that will not heal soon, and a recent decision to have courses without text- Someone mentioned to me today that books alienated many parents. "the Gorecki matter is fihaII' settled." This distrust is further exacerbated by Oh, really? Rather than feel any sense the way the administration and the school of relief, I just know there's another shoe board deal with any challenge to their au- waiting to drop somewhere. thority, no matter how trivial or serious. Hey, it's been that way for four years, To say they do not handle controversy why should things change now? well would be a gross understatement. As many a parent has discovered, neither the The Great Batavia Dam Debate also is board nor the administration want to hear lurching toward its own nonconclusion, from those who do not totally agree with with votes scheduled by some group to the party line. decide something that I thought some For Dr. Erwin to succeed, she must other group had decided before. Or did reach out to the rather large group of par- they not decide to do it? I'm confused,as ents, staff and taxpayers who feel that their I'm sure most of the residents of Batavia concerns have not been heard. A perfect are about the whole issue. place for her to start would be to do away I have heatd very intelligent argu- with one incredibly rude policy in effect at ments from both sides in the debate - board meetings. This is the policy where and some real wacky theories, as well. no one on the board or in the administra- One thing is for sure: If the darn goes, it is tion responds to any "civilian" who ad- highly unlikely that the consequences will dresses the board at their meeting. be S dire as what some would have us be- This is a slap in the face to parents and lieve. On the other hand, removal will cre- residents who want a response after they ate a noticeable change in the riverbank have spent hours at a board meeting just appearance from what exists now, so the for a chance to face the board and pub- decision is not easy. licly air concerns. Eliminate this policy Good luck to those stuck making the and Dr. Erwin immediately will win many call; you're about to tick off 50 percent of friends in the community. the people no matter what you do. Dr. Erwin also is known as a leader un- • Bill Page can be reached at afraid to clean house, and if there ever [email protected] or (630) 584- was a house that needed abit of tidying 0809.

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By Ron OLMSTEAD - .Nulnberolvacctfles As if didn't have enough Cowity Añnaalno. to worry about with mad cow, k 550 ,600 avian influenza, West Nile and sABS.. ,. lake 80,000 Now there's racco oft rabies. V OUPàge •-- 250,000. It began on the East Coast . . and soon spread to Ohio and :- Kane, - ,86,009 Tennessee. - :McHenry - 32,698 Don't panic. It's not in the scun:eAnimal . Chicago area, yet, and if it does - .•. . ... arrive here, there's a vaccine Elgin veterinarian Ri Penny,a prepared and ready to go —it -white the fines would pay for terrier mix, with the has been for years - as well as the enforcement, he says. successful post-infection treat- Partner . notes "it has to be merit methods. . profitable" or at least a break- What you should know about rubles -- - But you'd better do some- even proposition for - thing that an overwhelming municipalities to pressure • ables almoät always Is transthftted through animal bites. Sighs of proportion of Chicago-area pet scofflaws. -rabid animals Include excess saliva, foaming at the mouth and paralysis. - owners haven't done - get "-My desire is to get the cities Odd behavior —a Mid animal unafraid of huthans ora normally yourpetvaccinated. ... to enforce licensure," he Health experts here estimate said. "In most suburbs, it's outgoingdog that suddenly acts shy— Is another pothlbleslgn. - that only 25 percent to 30 per- 'hope you come in and buy • Once symptoms occur in huthàos, theseit Is no cure. But if the virus can cent ofdogs have been one.'" be stopped before symptoms begin, almost always can bé.ellmlnateC' vaccinated for rabies. .. It was that way in Wheeling That level is well below the until last year, said Christine - . Wyou are bit by an animal you suspect-may have rabies, wash the bite - minimum recommended inoc- Brady, the city's licensing clerk. with soap and water and see your doctor immediately.. ulatlon rate of roughly 55 - Then, the village -began • The phsicln likelywould give you aihotof rabiesantibbdies, meant - percent, said Charlel Rup- cross-checking with the to kick-start the body's immune system It would be followed by a series precht, thief of the rabies unit county's rabies vaccination list of five vaccine Injections over the next mordi. -. .... - at the Centers for Disease Con- and sending notices to pet trol andiPrevention in Atlanta. owners who hadn't registered - -. Forty-two people died of rabies In the United Slates between 1980 and "I think that's a level to he dop with the city 2000, and 13 of those contracted the disease In other countries, - concerned about in any urban, - We more than doubled, I -5ottWebtd.t :- : - suburban population of dogs," would say almost tripled (the :- -. - Rupprecht said. ' - number of $5 licenses sold)," Dan Partner, Cook County's Brady said. - bait programs have stopped If raccoon rabies does get Animal & Rabies Control That's fine, said Partner, but the spread of raccoon rabies In here and vaccination rates administrator, would like to it doesn't help find dogs that Ohio, and they may even be aren't any higher than they are change the rate, but that gets aren't alreadyvaccinated. able to push the disease back now, things could get ugly, tricky to do. To do that, you have to go out Into Pennsylvania. - Partner said. "In order to reach that target, looking, "Then you'd have a calamity you cannot leave it up to a pop- .Currently, Wheeling doesn't ofBut 'better Parmer safe than goes sorry." by the adage and you're out here trying to ulation voluntarily," said do that, said Michael Mond- "We would be negligent if itvaccinate It'd be the a millionbiggest animals. Excedrin Partner, who has embarked on schairt, the city's director of does get here and we do not headache you ever saw, and a campaign to get Cook cities finance. have the public prepared for there's no need for that." and suburbs to start enforcing "1 know that some communi- it," Parmer said. rabies vaccinations through ties in the past have done .dog - The raccoon rabies issue municipal licensing - with and cat censuses," said Mond- aside, Rupprecht said Palmer is fines and court appearances if schain, "(But) until there's absolutely right to increase the necessary some direction from our village vaccination rate. But most towns are hesitant board to do that, I don't think "Of course, the primary to take on any new responsibil- it's going to be done." - objective here is to prevent ides in an era of tight budgets Arlington Heights thinks it human exposure," Rupprecht and reduced staffing. does a pretty good job now of said. Convincing the municipali- enforcing vaccinations; but "Domestic animal vaccina- ties to get tough "has to be said it would be willing to hear tion Is a tried-and-true method handled in a very diplomatic, Partner out. - for more than 50 years." nice way," said Parmer, who 'We would always look at He added that raccoon rabies thinks he's got the answer: something that would Improve isn't the only danger. Bats and math, the safety in this conununity," skunks carry the rabies virus, If towns required vaccina- said Commander Richard and Ulinpis routinely finds wild tions as a precursor toa pet Niedrich of-the police depart- animals with rabies. license, and then went out ment, which runs the city's With low vaccination rates, searching for and fining owners animal control efforts. ."you just set yourself up for of unlicensedpets; you'd see - - The COC's Rupprecht said having, potentially, a dog rabies vaccination rtes increase vaccination through raccoon- outbreak," he said. - a..o

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Meg Gorecki should befill back in her office June 1 ready to out her term as state's attorney, complete with the endorsement of the Kane CountyBoar& Effectively ending two years of uncertainty that have surrounded the office, the board Monday voted 14 to 10 to allow Gorecki to return to the job after her Illinois Supreme Court-ordered four- month law license - - suspension. "I think Meg has taken enough pun- 6 - ishment,' said board member Bar- bara Wojnicki, a St fl Charles Republican, Meg Gorecki who voiced her support for Gorecki but was absent at the final vote. "1 feel this has been a witch hunt from day one. She has every right to come back" ,i..,,u atrn Blot auapIua.uIP. That right has been in dispute since before the state high court donations. - Nov.30. questions remained as to whether issued its ruling in November sus- News of the messages surfaced Soon after she took office in pending Gorecici's license for ethics she could remain in office. just weeks before the 2000 GOP pri- December 2000, the state commis- In the week leading up to her sus- violations. mary which Gorecki went on to wim sion that oversees attorney licensing The punishment stems from three pension, opposing opinions on. No evidence of such a bribery brought a discipline case against Gorecld's return were put to the test phone messages Gorecki left on a scheme ever was uncovered, and no Gorecki, a complaint that led to the friend's answering machine in 1998 inside and outside the courtroom. criminal charges were filed. suspension. With that in mind, on Jan. 23, suggesting county jobs could be Still, the scandal has clouded When the high court ordered bought in exchange for-campaign Gorecki's entire term, which ends Gorecki's suspension to start Feb. 1, See REUJRNon PAGE 9 I

Not Vacant How they voted Note results in Gorecki retaining office) Vacant Note against Gorecki retaining office) Here's how the county • Penelope Cameron, H-Aurora • Karen McConnaughay, • Mary Richards, A-Aurora • DeborahAllan, A-Elgin • Gerald Jones, D-Aurora A-St. Charles board votes broke down. • Jan Carlson, A-Elbuni • Dorothy Sanchez, 0-Aurora • Lee Barnett, • Rudy Neuberger, D-Aurora • Jack Cook, A-Elgin • Rob McConnaughay, • Jackie Tredup, A-Elgin A-East Dundee Absent H-Geneva • Margaret Scalfaro, • John Hoscheit A-St Charles • Caryl Van Ovemleiren, • Paul Greviskes, D-Aurora A-Capentersvi lie lath Wojnicki, A-St Charles • Jim Mitchell, R- North Aurora • Bob Kidlicki, A-Hampshire A-St Charles • Ken Griffin, D-Aurora • Don Wolfe, A-Elgin Joug Weigand, H-Batavia • John Noverini, • Dan Wafter, A-South Elgin R-Carpentersville • Cathy Hurlbut, R-Bgln • Bill Wyatt, A-Aurora Return: Chairman wants to change. law

History of Gorecid's troubles county board Chairman Mike McCoy called foraspei ineel- The case against Kane County StatesAttorney Meg Gorecld ing of the county board to decide if Gorecki should be stern from allegations during the 2000 campaign replaced. . :2800. - The same day, the state attor- Mthflsgadmssu1ameml Meg dggeeddrdahennhjn ney general issued an opinion tests Cafly ShMft De" Isms Mcssba make aeamMgs ranthnth sa4ng Gorecki could return and l(aa Board QaIaw Is wors Mecitsca thsnteytswsia • advising the county board had anaflb Mascethrrs MwMiss thelie*uii ""0" 1998.vdik bdsdThalad no authority in the matten nesssgss bran Gsrsdd. to thetif's olfidsit Allegations becaso pibre !ase The following week. Gorecki wad's later. ft Rsrubtran pdssaiy is ands Gassed was ctalsr4ag Ites sued to sfop else board from 5aA1ty0rMNStnecldniheefisre5flh,sgaJç meeting and asked n judge to Nti% beyfdend endorse the attorney generals totems. opls]loa Neitherhappened. In the midst ofiira ItGweddhsre all, Ihekoisolitthethevoicernihe siegadwmmtwwew hiensalise tea county's chiefJude appointed a . at,e ispi 'ray cyat tire beret - temporaryspecial ncy to fill In the role during the MasoN 21: Gaed.i eke the fiaptetem ataa7. - Gorecki enalQsL 2801 • to Monday may board Gorecki or Some voted a certain was, for lewd reasons. "me (state) conslisullon says In order tobe state's attornei. you have to have a law license, said board member Paul Gre- viskes, an Aurora Democrat, who voted against Gorecki's return. I don't think we can Not 7 Gevid eta tie send eIscb fsleaong Dasswsl Bet saaaat vfffis al statesattorney voteet6Z5Vth652l - Iran in office until -. - NoverIni said the fl1 flsbAtlasey Ret sad tlsdrihaqèonnheb,tles a bad carapraki awi*5 Geedat of mtotoratastAe I bred revisysate

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2004, her through her private attorneys 2004- Itspraising acilorL the county board and iso it iansonme coirerseis oweod r a delayiadeãsthe - Ms. Gorecki mists that the aapSlIebenFtb.1, action of the board brings do- JamM:S"KaneOmPty8wrdmMIMMWtate dsttallooney sure to this quesdon? Gorecid's S heitsaidhiflt, 110aOIS agesreyareral teieseplitoassyhegthe attorney L'srry Wechier said. 50heentutotaI1t"aesitfisthet41Iee aidtol att,e crelsess "My client looks forward to her jajew an Interm maidS stole's atlanay dtetog a eajaperdot - return to all the duelga of her JarL2a&rtddaes sus sasheb black the weche cc" canal trusts, Office on June 1, 241 : In legal terms, the lawyers- Jam. U. camel runes Ksslthay Mean ran stew Cw stare's attorney. around the boirdroom Monday J.W.JaFdffk3 1l55d5 counly board seem to agree the board dcci- slon should erase any further F&I-Kane Cassscordvetea 14-10ted Goredd's oapemkmadsiwtaele dlpute& anydelts1,ate*9rsrOsrehsnlooflraisre 1. The douney board had the s :Nswsrs,aoasylsratd&ddoe - right to make this desennina- (ion said Pat Kinnally. an - Aurora attorney hired to research the Gorecki issue for the county board. The system wv This Is over,' Reaction

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E-mail: CL5sthEDS@KCaOMaECOM Fax: (630)2324976 Legal notices: (630) 232-9255, Ext219 - Gorecki Madigan's opinion, that the fice, he said the' county bntRNrr threshold for 'legal disability" board has the same author- Visit our Web site. Were at Continued from page 1 kicks in at six months should ity to declare a vacancy in Www. k C C Ii ro n IC Is c orn be in the law. that office. As the first resolution was Assistant State's Attorney Last week, Chief Judge Spaxns AND Toujts defeated; the second became Michael - Coghlan said Philip DiMarzio appointed To schedule a speaker from the moot - Gorecid will not accept her Moran to serve as a special Chronicle, organizations should call "I'm happy with what the salary while her law license is • state's attorney until Gorecki (630) 232-9255, Ext. 307. board did," McCoy said. suspended. She is paid returns. Available speakers include editors He said had he been called $129,807 annually, and the Considering Madigan's and managers. - to cast a tiebreaking vote, it State reimburses IKatie opinion, Monday's county Tours of our plant at 1000 Randall *ould have been against the County for about$118;000 of board vote, and DiMarzio's Road in Geneva may be arranged-by vacancy. - Gorecki's saly. appointment of Moran, callin}530j 232-9255; Ext. 307. -. "I didn't call this meeting Coghlan said- 30 cases county officials believe, the Groups must have fewer than 20 because of any legal advice. I originally assigned to Gorecki legal questions have been People and tour hours are 8 a.m. to calledthi it because it was the have been reassigned to other right answered. 5 P.M. Tuesday through Thursday. ng to do," he said. prosecutors. "The legal issues have After McCoy announced Although she will not be been decided," Coghian the meeting, Gorecki sued paid, McCoy said the county :said. him and the county board, board might vote to extend However, the possibility p Illinois Attorney benefits to Gorecki through does exist for a private citizen General Lisa Madigan's her suspension. to challenge the county )Lormtws -nonbinding opinion that a The move wouldi not be board's vote, Coghlab said. four-month suspension did unprecedented. McCoy said "A citizen can bring any IWNOIS LOTTERY not constitute a "legal dis- the county board extends ability," which granted her legal issue they want," MON. Picic3 MIDDAY' 4-74 benefits to employees who are Coghlan said. "Legally, it ap- MON. Picx 3 EVENING: 0-9-1 the right to return to her on a maternity leave. pears they would not have a MON. 'PICK 4 MWDAY 4-8-6-7 job once the suspension Also, the county paid leg to stand on." Mori; Pick 4 EVENING: 4-6-7-6 ended.. Lorraine Sava's salary and MON. LITTLE Lorro: 1-08-09-13-23 - The Illinois constitution On Nov. 20, 2003, the state. Lorro JAckpot • benefits -during a 19-month Supreme Court suspended $2 million requires a state's attorney period in which Sava at-, to hold a valid law license. Gorecki for violating the tempted to recover from an Illinois Rules of Professional MEcAMLuopq But the constitution does aneurysm when she was un- EST. acxpor $85 million not address what would Conduct for suggesting in able perform her duties as 1998 that a friend could ob- happen if a sifting state's county clerk INDIANA LOi-ItRY' - tain a county job by making a attorney's license is sus- - Sava suffered the MON. DAILY 3 MIDDAY. 4-6-4' pended. contribution to McCoy's cam- M0N; DAILY 3 EVENING: 2-2-8 aneurysm at her office in June paign fund. MON. DAILY 4 MIDDAY: 1-8-7-9 McCoy said he would 1999 and continued as clerk ask state legislators to in- Gorecki has acknowl- MON. DAILY 4 EVENiNG; 7-9-1-9 until she resigned Feb: 1, 2001. edged that she made the MON. Lucxv 5 MIDDAY: 2-9-22-27-28 clude language in the Deputy clerk Bernadine statements in three telephone MON. LUCKY EVENING: statutes to prevent the legal 2413-20-25 Murphy fulfilled Sava's duties. calls, tapes of which surfaced EST. JAckpot $1 million wranglings that have during her absence. plagued Gorecki and the just before the 2000 Coghlan said that while Republican primary. An inves- E county for . so long from he had not researched the ST. JAckpot $85 million happening elsewhere. tigation cleared McCoy of any law surrounding the succes involvement and Gorecki of He said he agrees with sion in the county clerk's of- WISCONSIN LOTTERY criminal wrongdoing. MON. Picx 3: 8-4-6 — ------

— —.rr^ --- County. board members explain Gorecki decisions EyTOM SCHLUETER Resolution, to declare a vacancy Kane County Chronicle :. Voting no • Dan Walter, R-South Elgin GENEVA— When a special • Penelope Cameron, R-Aurora. county board meeting was • Jan Carlson, R-Elburn Voting yes called for 8 ant Monday, some •'Jack Cook, R-Elgin ',Deborah Allan, R-Elgin people, wondered if enough • John l-foscheit, R-St. Charles board members would show • Lee Barrett; R-East Dundee • Robert Kudlicki, R-l-lampshire • Paul Greviskes, D-Aurora UP. As it turned out, 24 mem- • Karen McConnaughay, R-St. • Kenneth Griffin, D-Auror bers voted, 14 of whom said Charles • Catherin,e Hurlbut, R-Elgin no vacancy existed in the • Robert McConnaughay, R- • Gerald Jones, D-AUrora state's attorney's office. That Geneva • Rudy Neuberger, D-Aurora cleared the way for Meg • James Mitchell, R-North • Margaret Scalfaro, R- Gorecki to return to her office Aurora:'. Carpentersville when the foup.month sus- • John Noverini, R: • Donald Wolfe, R-Elgin pension of her law license Carpentersville • William Wyatt, R-Aurora 'ends June 1. '• Mary Richards; R-Aurora. The discussion preceding • Dorothy Sanchez, 0-Aurora Absent the vote was at times 'emo - • Jackie Tredup, R-Elgin • Douglas Weigand; R-Batavia tional but for the most part • Caryl VanOvermeiren, R-St. • Barbara Wojnicki, R-St. measured. Charles Charles Although on Friday many board members 'appeared to be undecided how they-would Hoscheit said. prove. 'I think Meg should be vote, by Monday morning it Lee , Barrett, R-East able, to come back in June," was clear they came with their DundS, said he wanted the VanOvermeiren said:. minds made up. board to declare a vacancy not Gerald' Jones, D-Aurora, Paul Greviskes, -D-Aurora "for political' reasonsi but for said elected officials are held an attorney in private practice, clarification of the statutes. to a higher standard. said he always believed that Setting aside political rhetoric, •rfti a sad day to be here as the suspension created a va- we're not clear on what a va elected officials," Jones said: dancy because it left Gorecki cancyis." "In certain aspects, 'she ,has with a"legal disability' Catherine Hurlbut, 11- 'failed. Would any of our con., As an example, he said Elgin; said the county board stituents receive this kind of children under 18 years old should declare a vacancy to opportunity?" cannot sign contracts because protect itself from the poten- John Noverini, .R- of a legal disability. tial of lawsuits and overturned • .Carpenterstlle, said Kather- "I think that (the suspen- convictions. ine Moran, appointed by sion) creates a vacancy in that "I err on the side of being Chief Judge Philip DiMarzio position," Greviskes said. conservative," Hurlbut said. to, serve as a special state's at- John Hoscheit, R-St.Charles, Caryl VanOvermeireh, R- torney-on Gorecki's absence, also an attorney, disagreed.' St. Charles; said Gorecld's has a valid law license, mean- He. said that to legally suspension should be ing there is no vacancy in.the' • prove someone is "disabled" in viewed the same as the sus- office. probate court requires the rul- pension of someone's dri- "I don't see a vacancy. I ing ofajudge. ver's license. don't see a legal disability She's - To declare Gorecki dis- "1 'think this is just I the state's attorney. It's not our - abled, "It seems to me we lawyer's opportunity to prove job to punish Meg 'Gorecki," would have to adjudicate this," the things lawyers like to Nov,erini said. Records show Barsanti, O'Neil top funding race c: 4qroni cit Campaign finance reports were due Monday

By HEATH }-1IXSON Kane County Chronicle Kane County state's attorney candidates John Barsanti and Tim O'Neil are winning hadnW $19,000 and abOut$250.B5n the fund-raisinglace, but Barsanti is the top Reports 1ortlng 0rio dwith about - Spender. $16,500 In hand and no$3,700, debt Semiannual Shariiigwealth continued from page 1 RagO had mole than butadebt of morethan $4,000- campaign finance ,Anytime a person of the In other countywide • Politicians show stature Of reports filed within political DeboDeborah Seyller raised the last week show where they are. (endorsesY°"h" think that" . races, good." O'Nefl said. t is a that Barsânti and getting money. great endorsement to have."-----5ivmontP"'" in her bd to O'Neil each has The enoorsem thad not be re.clected circuit2cleriC900- Page 2A beeflma(le public undlo'Neil seyller spent about $, raised at least three •. ff010 than $13000, In times that of their filed his report Moi1dY She hadat the end of the period. oNed said he plannedto cash Norris,- closest opponent, Joseph Rago. Challengerll sue Publicize the end0tment in Seyerli for the Barsanti, O'Neil, Rago and Michael two weeks McCOY could not who Opp GOP nomination, raised Leuer seek the Republican nomination for beteachotOn the spendingcomment side, morelhah1$400,0N0050 state's attorney in the March 16 primary. by spent more than $4,000- She Leuer's report was unavailable. BarSanfishelling toppedout more the fieldthan ended the period with about - hile O'Neil spent $l6oin1ia- The wiiinerlikelywill face Democrat Renee $11,000. W In the coroner's meet. in- Robinson in the November general election. nearly $L900 -Rago spent cumbefit charles West rased an $4,000. The reports were due. Monday. They moreO'Neil attributed the more than $3,th 700 and spentp0- cover campaign donations and spending $900.He endedthe spendinS difference to the nearlyriodvJith moth thai 3,000 he has been a Stan aicicrod between July 1 and Dec. 31;2003. length of tonee Challenger pare tO. nearly $10, during While the records show comparable candidate compare raisede4 Barsafl- O'Neil also said he the period but most of that fund-raising Barsanti outspent O'Neil by due to four per- - hadbeefluiflmds fo1 ountrass was nearly four tunes during the six-month pe- months while Barsali VJ35 am al loans to his owfl cain- riod. Barsanti outspent Rago by nearly three . son raisingO'Neil fund5 said for sixin Octobermonths he paigatotaimfl97°° HklCott times during that same period. would seek to become the spent aboutthe same amount "Ido notthinkit (signifies anything) other law enforcement and ended the period with counrystGP -. d about $40 inhand. than Ihave been working on this over a year," officer. Barsant announce West. ijicicrud and Bob

Barsanli said. "I have had plans in place.' his candidacyBarsanti said in late he June. paid for -'flballi seek time Republican Barsanti raised nearly $25,000. Rago norahrationforcoorner signs and printing during the raised more than $7,000 but much of that id his fund- repo face period, and aid The winner was in personal loans of at least $3,700 to his D Robert Moore in el. campaign. endof5ePtemThe finance records show the general election. The reports show that O'Neil raised Moore does not face nearly $22900 during the period, including O'Neild had of theDecemberal1eflger most cash at . for his party's th nominaflo° a $500 donation in November from Kane e His epoitindicatedthat County Board Chairman Mike McCoy. See REPORTS, page 2 • . 3-Qt/ 'êciO'1 /7a1-7S :.County Board Says Gorecki can return. 'No vacancy' in the office of state's attorney • In four months: Suspended official will be back in June

By Daniel Dugan stAFF WArIER GENEVA— Nearly four years after it was dis- closed that Kane county States Attorney Meg Gorecki was involved in an ethical gaffe, the final word in her disciplinary actions came down Monday. The Kane County Board voted 14-10 against declaring her office 'vacant," meaning Gorecki • will be replaced temporarily and will return alter June 1 following a four-month suspension of her law license, 'This whole thing is over as far as I'm con- cerned," said Patrick Kinnally, the attorney ap- pointed to assist the Coun' Board in the Gorecki Valley matter. Monday's split vote by headlines the board ended a chain of events filled with legal twists and turns as public Aurora officials debated how to Blood evidence proceed through a situa- leads opening lion that had never oc- cuned in Illinois history— of murder triaL an incumbent state's altor- OrrrTawus, A3 ney being stripped of her julturla - law license by the illinois Supreem Court icyclist rides It leaves Katherine to work each Moran in the position of state's attorneyfor the next day - at Npj four months as Gorecici's - 1 , Daybreakintemporary replacement. Gorecki admitted that, In 1998, she left two messages on a friend's an- sivering machine staling that the way to get a county transportation job for a blend was by mak- ing campaign donations to County Board Chair- cherne vas later found to be bogus and was cleared of any wrongdoing; but the inreme Court - acting on a complaint

dered Gorecki's law license suspended for four months. The suspension began on Sunday. Vacant or not? Some members of the County Board believed the suspension meant Gorecki's office could be de- clared 'vacant" and the board could appoint a suc- STEVE ROSENBERU / srm'yr,tusu,,nnrnr.K cossor for the duration of her term, whirl ends on Mike McCoy (above), xwsidetd of the Kane County Board, listens as board members debate the Meg Goreclil Issue during a Now. 30- special session Monday morning. The board voted 14-10 to allow Goxecki (to p photol to return to her job as county statvs at- + Turn to COREElU, A2 honey after a four-inotith suspension of her law license. - trthrecS The Beacon News tries to be accu- rate and fairs every story it pub. -. - tithes. When a mistake occurs, we want toM it To report enors, call the managing editor at 844-588). • In astory Monday about the • Chi Town Tear Down Pit Crew Competition, a studenes - - name was spelled incorrectly. The correct name is Zath - Barnwell.

• 1 recenkleatlzs STEVE ROsENBERG / STAFF FROTOGRAP1IRK Obituaries / Page AG Assistant State's Attorney Michael Coglilan answers questions timnars. Lana, John B. 'laIm Boy,' 24, porters after Monday mernln g?s meeting of the Kane County Board. Cogli- Sheridan Ian argued that the board was getting bad legal advice and did not have the Laden, Brian P., 40, North Aurora authority to declare a vacancy in the state's attorney's office. Miter, Capt Adam 1, 29, Midlothian Nicholson, Rita Fit, 85, Aurora wished the matter would have been NOWOdZelSkI, Marion Loiñse, 96, settled by the courts, while others said formerly Aurora the state Legislature should have Vilalon, Pedro, 67, Aurora From pageAl Iffirm, Delbert Jacob, 77, 'Tsn sorry we're dealing with this, Sandwich That was in contrast to the advice but here it is in our laps," said Debo- of illinois Attorney General lisa Madi- rah Allan, R-Elgin. gan, who on Jan. 23 issued an opinion McCoy said he plans to seek the slating a special state's attorney The Beacon News should he appointed only during Gorecki's suspension. The opinion McCoy, who called Monday's spe- H . Aliollinger stated that Gorecki could resume her been HI International publication duties after the suspension. cial mutating, had sllentabouthis Following Madigans lead, 181, Cir- own feelings on the issue before the Office vote, saying he didn't want to "sway 101 S. River St. Mroia. IL 60506 cuit Chiefjudge Philip DiMarzio ap- pointed Moran to fill in during .Gorec- any of the board members." The • -, Ln4IIrouni 8:30 am-S p.m. chairman may vote only in the event Macstay-Friday. Closed hoidays. id's suspension. Moran has been the chief of the civil division of the state's ofalie. Newspaperdellvery attorney's office under Gorecki. '1 would've voted for no vacancy,' • Joe Weber, circulation manager Gorecki believed she should be he said Monday. — able to make the appointment of her Questioning legal advice (630) 844-5800 or (800) 244-5844 temporary replacement and had • --•' sought a court order to stop the Kane Michael Coghlan, deputy chief of temrneeMee@ssnl corn. County Board from voting. Corecki's civil division, who has been Last week, 16th Circuit Court in charge of following the matterwith- 5.30 cm.- 6 p.m.. weekdays in the states attorney's office, said the '.7-11 am, weekends Judge Michael Colwell declined to 53Q08m,'0Y5 stop the board from meeting and de- board made the right choice. He said that, after reading all the Memo des.ery times dined to rule on the matler of whether • ' &no a.m. weekdays and holidays there would be a vacancy when the laws and statutes, there is no way 7 am. Saturdays. B am. Sundays. suspension began. the board should have declared a II you do not receive Your Paper by vacancy. our delivery deadline, please cat Explaining their votes "It's dear the boautwas getting bad • -, customer servico botorn 10 n.m. The four lawyers serving on the legal advice," Coghlan said.'I don't -: weekdays (or 11 em. weekends) think the board had the legal authoii- and we will deliver your paper by Cnnnlv Word were snlit on the issue of tyto declare a vacancy." hear -Katnally. who has been advising - srrbssdpilonrMes cia de8ns !dc $2.25 Ta, the board, dismissed Coghlan's com- Friday-Suflda% $140 Sunday (plus ments. I - . Intemiltlent hokday Issues) "That's his opinion," he said. 'God • - •Mafl subwlptislur $4 weekly. St. Charles, said there was not bless him, let's move on,' • ,.:N4,doessOcenlsdaily, Greviskes said it comes down to a One of Gorecici's private attorneys, $1.60 Sunday. part of the law staling there is Larry Wechiter, said the board 're- sponded appropriately' to the legal is- - Athedislag if the state's attorney is under a Otseta,athtWthig-. 1oaI rlicahilutv." While he said there Robert Wall, manager is such a disabl]ity to (jorecki not Isaw • 'Ms. Gosrskitrusts that the action Call (630)844'sasntromoa.m.to5 ing a law license for four months, of the board brings closure to this • •' p.m. weekdays.' Novarlid disagreed. question,' he said in a prepared state- aens — "the term legal disability doesn't ment "My client looks forward to her Can (630) 844-5811 Iron, 8:30 a.m. to return to all the duties other office on 5 .m weekdays. Speak to having or not having a law li- cense,' Noverini said, June 1, 2034." On-line advutbiwe The proceedings are not entirely Brent Albrecht. manager Through the debate, board mem- GaO (815) 439'4377 from 8:30 am. to bers gave a wide variety of reasons for over, however. 5 p.m. weekdays theIr votes, from suggestions made by Under the county's policy for elect. residents to their own sense of the ed officials, Corecld has the right to Obituaries complicated legal issue. decide whether she is paid during her. Call (630) 644.5837 between S am. suspension. McCoy said she has de- and 8 p.m. weekdays or 4.8 p.m. "I'm not a lawyer, and I think you weekends and holkiays on look atthis thing either w'," said clined to be paid. Gerald Jones, 1)-Aurora. "but I think However, if she is to continue re-- Newsroom its avaoncy. ceiving health benefits from the Jim KIng, managing editor Dorothy Sanchez, D.Aurora, said county during her suspension, she Ntwsneei ,semben (030) 844-5900 the issue is about cboosin.g public off will need the board's permission, H Newvoomltc(630)844l043 daIs. McCoy said. That issue will be debat- 5etedme%taff 'The voters knew what they were ed by the board's Executive Commit- first inItial last name 0 arnl.com doing' when they elected Gorecki to a tee on Feb. 11. bam,4etjmeSerOsCn1.com *iur.year term in 2, she sait?'he McCoy said the decision is up to News qreaiteri er eom plaflt Cat Jim should be allowed to come hack' the board but added he does not have - KIng (630) 844.5601 Some board members said they aproblem with her receiving benefits -: Teeergest.stnr,orr4,eletCatCilY - Editor John Russet (630) 844-5902 1. To mbmlt a lass" osteasr, Cat commi Req,ords: SOvestñ sed rai more tha,n Davoulsti primary election is March I. GOP campaign money McConnaughay chose to forgo re.: GOP nominee likely. election and instead is running for Candidate Raised . Spent county board chairman. • Mark Davoust .....$6,500 ...... $5,500 • :11)111 face Elaine Stern Davoust brushed aside the fund-rais- • Arney Silvestri .....$20,000 ...... $8,000 ing numbers saying that he continues to • . for District 14 seat raise money and would continue to cam- his wife, Melody, loaned his campaign paign for the 'nomination. '1 feel good about the campaign," he $3,000 during that time. .Bt HEATH HON said. "I feel very good with the campaign St. Charles Democrat Elaine Stern Xane County Chronicle that we are rürthing at this point. U have). did not file a report, by' Monday after- no worry of having to back out because of noon, which is required of candidates' GENEVA - Amey Silvestri raised lack of funds." wh& raised or spent more than $3,000. more than three times the amount . • Campaign finance records The records show that Silvestri spent that his opponent Mark show that Silvestri has taken a more than $8,000, much of whicliwent to Davoust did in the last six commanding lead in fund-rais- pay for campaign materials, such as months of 2003, campaign fi- ing. printing. nance records show. Silvestri raised more than Davoust spent 'nearly $5,500, with at The records also reveal that elft A in contributions and least half that being sçient on a campaign $20,000 . Silvestri, 35, spent more money log's from July 1 t Sept. 31. He consultant. - than Davoust, 45, raised during personally loaned his campaign District 14 includes precincts in west-, that sameperiod. J-more than $4,500. em St. Charles and Geneva. Randall Road The St. Charles Republicans Silvestri did' not return phone calls runs through the district. .seek the Republican nomination for the seeking comn3ent. The District 14 Republican nominee Kane County Board District 14 seat being Davousf raised about $6,500 during likely will face Stem in the November vacated by Karen McConnaughay. The the six-month period. Records show that general election.

Former Maple Park top cop seeks. apology frorn village By DAN CHANZIT only. defamation accusation, Deputy Coroner Chester Morris Kane County Chronicle Stover has lodged against a vil- the village's new police chief. He lage. replaced Stover, who had been MAPLE PARK --A former Stover filed a lawsuit against acting chief for about six weeks. .J' acting village police chief says he Elburn in 2003, accusing the vil- Morris' appointment came ' might sue the village for slander- lage of Elbum and Elbum Police after a political baffle for the job. ing him before picking someone Chief James Linane of defama- Morris and Stover each received else to take over the department tion. Amotion to dismiss the case three votes from the village Former acting Maple Park was filedlastnionth, and the next boarcL' Police Chief Lenny Stover ac- hearing will beon Mardi i5. Maple Park President Mark cused Thistee Terry Borg on JnA4Dril 2003, foriner sergeant Delaney cast the tie-breaking Thesday of making comments John Mittvick filed a federal suit vote. Stover immediately re- during a selecticin meeting' last alleging he was improperly fired signed from the department.' year that cast him in a bad light after pursuing an investigation Stover complained Morris • Borg's remarks "are not with- into village funds. was not qualified to take over the out consequences," Stover told Village officials admitted department When appointed, village board members. making an impropek fund trans- Morris' had police qualifications Stover demanded an apology fer in October 2002 thatwas cor- but had never served as a chief. and threatened to sue if he did rected in January 2003. An Illinois BrItZ said state law gave not receive one. , ' State Police investigation deter- 'Morris six months to undergo the I Borg declined to apologize •mined there was nowrongdoing. necessary training, which he did. and asked for more time to re- No trial date has been set That included a 40-hour re- view minutes -from meetings. and village attorney Bob Britz fresher course in Elmhurst. "It was never my 'intent to said the village seeks to have the Delaney said he does not ruin your career," Borg told" case dismissed. know why Stover *ants to sue Stover. "But I can't be expected to Maple Park officials said they Maple Park. Delaney said he be- do that (review meetingthis minute s) believe that Stover's motivation lieves Stover never got over not before the end of ' for suing the village is because he being named top cop. lf Stover sues the village, it will was not named police chief "He didn't want to accept it" not be the only lawsuit against In Mardi 2003, the village Delaney said. "I say go on with Maple Park And, it will not be the named 'former Kane County yourlife."

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WARNING: There is nothing in this WARNING: column about Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, the Super Bowl, CBS, MTV Mark There is or the FCC, nothing in Next week, Batavia aldermen will be Foster discussing and we hope making this column decisions about two large pieces of about Janet concrete in the Fox River. direction of keeping the crossing open. Both will have long-lasting effects Other than the open house and the - Jackson, on the Batavia landscape and citizen advisory panel, there has been Justin community he, little in the way of public involvement Timberlake, The replacement of the Wilson in the bridge planning process. Street bridge and the repair, The issue of the north dam, on the the Super replacement or removal of the north dam are what local political leaders call other hand, has attracted more public Bowl, CBS, 100-year decisions." - involvement than any issue that! can MTV or the At 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 10, the city remember with the possible exception council Community Development of the development of the property next FCC. Committee will decide on the structural to the -Braebum Marsh. design of the new bridge. interestingly; At 7p.m. on Feb. 12, there will be a' there has been little comment from the special meeting of the city council to public on this issue. - once again consider the issue. To be sure, plenty of people showed The Illinois Department of Natural up at an open house last year to look at Resources will be there to present its bridge designs and register their latest proposal to build a replacement opinions, further upstream and to answer People like the idea of a pedestrian questions. The Keep the Dam group plaza, and city officials already have and the Batavians for a Healthy River indicated that they like the idea too ' and group will make presentations. whatever the bridge looks like, it will After last year's advisory referendum incorporate some sort of plaza into the design. , in favor of keeping the dam, and all of Nobody got upset when aldermen the proposals, and the Batavia Park ruled out suspension bridge designs, Board's vote for the second time in favor which would have precluded the option of a half-dam option, I don't envy of keeping the crossing open during the aldermen for the decision they will have work to make. So now aldermen are essentially I would not be surprised if facing issues such as how many piers three hours of presentation and debate will be in the water. There are basically that they decide to bring the meeting to four designs on the table, with a fifth a close and put off a decision for that is a variation of one of the others. another day. On the other hand, I would Once aldermen decide on a design, not be surprised if they take ávote. And they will open another round of public I would not be surprised if that vote input on what sort amenities people leaves everyone wondering just what want to see, such as the pedestrian happens next. plaza, ornamental lighting, benches, stairways, and how the bicycle trail willThetwo large city piecesis dealing of concrete with the in fatethe rivetof run underneath the bridge. The more critical decision to be The process for replacing one rests on made is whether the crossing will be solid bedrock The process for replacing kept open during the work in 2006. City the other is amid turbulent waters. officials are awaiting the recommenda- • Mark Foster covers Batavia. He tion of a citizen committee, but they may be reached by calling (630) 845- already seem to be leaning in the 5362, or at [email protected] . LEGAL NOTICE - IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUITCIRCU KANE COUNTY ILLINOIS THE FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF KANE cOuNTY, a body politic. Plaintiff, vs. - DOUGLAS A. GILL. as Successor Trustee of a Trust Agreement dated March 4, 1999 and known as the LUCILLE B. GILL DECLARATION OF TRUST; the ESTATE OF LUCILLE B. GILL, deceased, DOUGLAS A.GILL; CLAYTON GILL; GARRETt GILL, TYLER GILL, UNKNOWN HEIRS & LEGATEE OF LUCILLE B.GILL, deceased, and UNKNOWN OWNERS; Defendants. - . NOTICE OF PUBLICATION The requisite affidavit for publication havin been tiled, notice is hereby given you (names of pad?,s who cannot be served with summons, and 'UNKNOWN Letters -: HEIRS & LEGATEES OF LUCILLE B. GILL, deceased entitled cause, that suit has been commenced In this Z,14109 approval for office. Court by Petitioner against you and other defendants, False claimWhile I believe the reputation praying for judgment as to the determination of just of Mr. Page precedes him, I still described, and for other relief, that summons was Ouly To the Editor: issued as provided by law, and that said cause is still thought it important to set the pending. In the Jan. 22 Kthw County record straight Now, unless you, the said defendants named above, file your appearance in the office of the Clerk of the Chronicle, political muckraker Bill i tnst Proverbs says it best Circuit Court, Kane County Courthouse, 100 South Page made critical and false Third Street, Geneva, Kane County, Illinois, or other- "Lying lips are an abôminatión to wise make your appearance herein, on or before the attacks on my candidacy for Kane the Lord, but those who deal 5th day of March, 2004, this cause may be fried and county State's Attorney. He . faithfully are His delight." judgment entered as prayed for In the petition without further notice to you, claimed that I was attempting to (Proverbs ,12:22 (NASB)). The reelproperty which is the subject of this pro- "avoid the public" by missing joint ceeding is situated in the County of Kane and Is legally- candidate forums and events. in Exhibit A attached hereto and incorporated herein by Michael Letter this reference. This claim is totally false. Since Republican candidate EXHIBIT A joining the four-way Republican THE LAND REFERRED TO IN THIS COMMITMENT for Kane County State'sAttomey IS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: primary for state's attorney in Geneva- PARCEL ONE LOT 1 IN OEERW000. St November, I have attended every joint meeting of candidates, but one - which I announced in advance that it Conflicted directly - PARCEL THREE: EASEMENT FOR ACCESS CRE- with my work obligations and ATED BY WARRANTY DEED DATED NOVEMBER 24, 1952 AND RECORDED NOVEMBER 28, 1952 IN I Suggested alternative means of p BOOK 1598, PAGE 390 AS DOCUMENT '712123, participation. As a husband and MADE BY DAVID D. BENNETT AND DENISE BEN-• NEU, HIS WIFE, TO DAVID A. GILL AND LUCILLE father of four young children, I BENNETt GILL, His WIFE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF conflicts may arise in the future PARCEL ONE OVER THAT PART OF THE NORTH- - EAST 114 OF SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, where family considerations must RANGE BEAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDI' be placed before a political event. • AN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: A STRIP OF LAND ID FEET WIDE, THE CENTER LINE OF WHICH IS - This has not been thetase to date. I DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT I am comforted in knowing ON THE EAST LINE OF THE WEST 1/2 OF SAID NORTHEAST 114 350 FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTH that Mt Page has singled out two I LINE OF SAID OUARTER SECTION(BEING IN THE of my political role models, Illinois. CENTER LINE OF THE OLD HIGHWAY); THENCE I SOUTH 69 DEGREES, 46 MINUTES, 0 SECONDS Supreme Court Justice Bob WEST PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF THE Thomas and Sen. Chris Lauzen, WARFIELD PROPERTY 614 FEET; THENCE SOUTH I 72 DEGREES, 53 MINUTES. 0 SECONDS WEST 70 for critical and unfair attacks. FEET; THENCE SOUTh 59 DEGREES, 30 MINUTES, Maybe because the three of us are 0 SECONDS WEST IS FEET; THENCE SOUTH 87 DEGREES, 48 MINUTES, SECONDS WEST TO A all conservative Republican I POINT ON A THE EASTLINE OF PARCEL ONE, 9 reformers - with no ties to the I FEET NORTH OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER I THEREOF, IN THE TOWNSHIP OF St CHARLES, insiders and the cronies of Illinois KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. politics —we do not meet his I THE FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF IWE COUNTY - /si Paul G. Krantz, One of the attorneys for the Petitioner tCNNALLY, KREN1Z LORAN, HODGE & HERMAN. P.C. 2114 Deorpath Road Post Office Box $030 Aurora; IL 60507-5030 630-9074909 (Published in the Kane County Chronicle, February 4, I 11818,2004.) I .- CA\roni I z/4 /pc( Weisner leads pack in funding for

'DivjPami" STAFF WRiTER AURORA -Ile latest state contributors, including ore who has campaign finance records show that bank-roiled more than 60 percent of mayoral candidate Tom Welsher FUNDING Wyatt's campaign to date. Kevin not only has faised more money From Page Al Fitzpatrick, a Geneva broker and than all the other candidates,,, long-time friend of Wyatt's, made combined but also has built a AmOng them were $5,0))0 from three donations of $5,000 each. support bate that is far more broad the International Union of ?ainters I don't think money puts anyone and Allied Ttades which i headed at an advantage or disadvantage)' id Monday show Tom Weisner has by.Kane County Demotraçc Party Wyatt said. "It's whatyou do with it Weisner raisi 3,151 from July 1 raised more than - Chairman Mark Guethle $1,500 We've only spent ($5,000), but are to Dec. 31, ging his total $65000 froma from Dick Hawks, a loigtime we out there? We've been active" 3 to more than dwersegmupof. business associate fOr Jim Irvin has relied heavily so far on who was the first supliotters, Obexweis, the Auroran seeking the funds he has personally loaned his Republican nomination for the U.S. own campaign. Records show the Senate; $1,025 from Hhlary former Kane County prosecutor Brennan, president of the Aurora loaned the Irvin for Aurora YWCA and co-chairman along with campaign $7,070 in the six-month. Hawks of Weisner's finance period., '. head committee, and donations from Outside cOntributions to Irvin's lead various developers, engineering. -campaign totaled $11,828. Thentyr, firms and other companies two.large contributions came - associated with the city. mostly from law firms, financial Weisner also had $15,241 in companies and businesses. mayoral primary election still a.year noniteinized donations from fund- Sherman Jenkins, Aurora's away. Two other candidates filed - W raising events, which caMpaign economic development director, paperwork Monday, reporting Bill'atthar:'- officials said came mostly through made two donations totaling $175. combined receipts of $43,198, only MISS $24,30b,:'_- $25 or $30 campaign event tickets Records show Weisner has spent $47 more than Weisner. more than 60 sold to more than 600 people. $52,863 so far, including $30,000 in 1 have a pretty good cross- r—entofwhkli "It's not a situation where one or short-term CD investinera leaving section of. supporters," said two people were making up the him with $12,722 in his campaign. Weisner, Aurora's director of large number of donations," fund at the end of the year. -Irvin has community services. "1 think I have I.aL - -Weisner said. the trust and confidence of a lot of Wyatt listed 14 large donations, people in the community" 1rfl but they came from only seven • Kane County Board member Sill • Wyatt came 'in second in fund' raising with $24,300. Attorney Richard Irvin raised $18,898, Angel Hernandez, who announced lust..______long-shot candidacy in October, did not file paperwork. •• ______Wyatt and Irvin both said their - fund-raising efforts started later in,______the filing period and will intensify- Richard this year. Irvin said Weisner IMIi,as. benefited early on by getting isS 1 "special-interest" support fr&m conthbutorswith ties to- the dty he person- "All that reflects is that he's beenakkninedlichis an employee of the city for,niorè . ..° . than 15 years," Irvin said. "lathe end, money doesn't vote. People, -- do." A closerlook at the individual..... 'contribution; however, reveals that Weisner has used his head start th - - -build a formidable and diverse support base. Weisner listed 50 individual contributioiis 'of more than $150, - Including several labor unions, businesses and individuals from - varying political and ethnic toiig-sliotcandi- -backgrounds. dateAngeIIIes--- .... c. Turn t0FUNDING,'42

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By William Presecky Tilbune staff repofler I Kane County officials Wednesday effectively ended a .0000cJ_ge protracted tug of war over the ;-s future of two decrepit county- owned buildings in the heart of C> Ct Geneva by recommending to (N n1L9 t flg sell one and replace the other. aE2 In separate actions, the Coun- ty Board's Executive Commit- C) tee voted to urge the sale of its -..... so-called 6th Street School siteV—J to the Geneva Public Library - -z District and to advance a much- .EuS& sa--- delayed plan to replace its exist- V lag Child Advocacy Centeir. The panel approved an agree- ment to sell the old school build- st.g a 00 ing at 210 S. 6th St. for $1,025,003. 0• It also authorized nearly $48,000 -4 for design work on the new cen- tU2U ter, which will be located on the C site of an old county-owned -2 In is house at 427 Campbell St U The full board ls expected to ti consider the proposals Tuesday. V 't Pending the city's approval of the necessary zoning and build- lag permits, the county is ex- — pected to begin construction : i r this summer one scaled-down. cri cJ more residential-looking child advocacy center Geneva histor- 5003fl ic preservationists twice reject- C fl ed earlier designs as being too Institutional for the residential .0 t area. Recent meetings between Ge- -c 1i92' nova officials, County Board iIiao2'a Chairman Mike McCoy and S1i2 •ah- I State's Atty Meg Gorecki helped I end a long bathe between the Ooa,t,2 04Jit a,-5 county and the city over the de- (fl 0 °aC 'L° mand that anything built on the Campbell Street site be compat- Is ible with the city's historic dis- UN trict. • > dObOUJ Disagreement between coun- . -2- ty and Geneva officials over the - L fate of the vacant 186-year-old nsa-eRsJe3:; :lSta Campbell Street house has jo.5O spanned several years. ot00 "it [the revised design] looks e,uo8 00 like a house," McCoy said. "We no ,4' ,, E have approval to tear down the C aO !9' 'a old [child advocacy .center] building. We've jumped over the a) 'a — main hurdle" The existing advocacy center Is in cramped quarters behind m . g g 'i • 0 the old 3rd Street courthouse uuC. 00ll and next to the dilapidated, two, story frame house the county plans to raze. WU,V3Q The advocacy center is de- signed to be a central, non- 4 to threatentng investigative site where a team of advocates can work in privacy with children h suspected of having been abused. .00 '4 The Library District plans to demolish the outmoded three- story school building and use p., the 2-acre 6th Street site forth- 1 a 'h1c3 tore expansion The district had a right offlrst - refusal on the property which County Board Administration Committee Chairman Paul Gre- viskes (D-Aurora) said was out- moded and of no further use to the county

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To the Editor: C' milestones identical Now that the Illinois Supreme Court has issued the order to Here are the milestones in the suspend Meg Gorecld's law license Monica-gate scandal: for four months, it is time for Ms. Bill Clinton does a bad thing. Gorecki to immediately resign her Clinton covers it up. Clinton is office. She has violated the public confronted with the allegations. trust and has lost the moral Clinton denies it Clinton authority to lead. accuses his opponents of mud- Illinois law requir& that a slinging for political advantage. state's attorney hold a license to Hard evidence is produced. piactice law. While some may hold Clinton runs out Of wiggle room. Clinton confesses. Other politicians protect him from the opinion that a legal gray area consequences because he is may exist regarding suspensions doing such a great job in office. of less than sixth months, the The milestones of the Meg Attorney Registration and Gorecld scandal? See above. Disciplinary Commission has Among the fallout from yet stated that there is no reason not another scandal are two key to immediately appoint a problems. How are we sup- replacement to serve the citizens posed to respect authority? How of Kane County until the next can we expect to attract high- e election. In addition, AEDC quality leaders to elected office? Commission spokesman Jim The message I get from Meg Is Grogan has expressed valid • Gorecid's position through all of concerns regarding the precedent this: "I lied toyou, but that set by delaying a suspension. doesn't matter. I am irreplace- I support the decision by Kane able," County Board Chairman Mike Such arrogance. What a McCoy to finally begin the process shame. of selecting a replacement to run Doug Heaton the office until the election in Elgin November. The work of the Kane County State's Attorney's Office is ml'' too important to suffer from the ongoing distraction of its discredited leader. Frank Craig Democratic Candidate Kane County Board District 4

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Lack qf landfills means more transfer stations, rising costs By) im Haits "Transfer stations are busi- and Meghan C. Smith nesses, and they have to be oper- Staff writers ated at a profit, otherwise the economios just don't work (for The future of waste disposal their owners)," he added. will likely be more costly for However, one possible brake garbage haulers and their cus- on rising prices is the competi- tomers. - - tive nature of the local industry. With the number of local land- A number of both large national fills in both DuPage and Kane and smallerall independent con- counties dwindling from one to tractors are looking to attract zero within the next few years, municipal contracts. and with transportation and "This business is absolutely manpower costs for waste competitive," said Pete Satin, haulers increasing, fees to local area manager for Onyx Waste customers for trash service will Services Inc. "There's not a situ- continue to rise, according to Snif photo by Mark Busch ation I know of where a monop- waste contractors serving the Seagulls swarm around a tractor working at the top of Settler's Hill landfill In Geneva.The land- oly exists in any community?' area. fill, which is owned by Kane County but operated by Waste Management Inc., is scheduled to Last yew, state lawmakers Taking the close by 2006. increased the per-ton tax on garbage out trash going into landfills from 95 Where the trash goes Large national haulers such as BR, Waste Management and cents to $2, a cost that eventually There are three major waste haulers for this area, Waste Management, Inc., Browning-Ferris Industries is passed on to customers when and Onyx Waste Services. Here Is the path that trash takes when a waste hauler picks It up from the Onyx Waste Services serve the contracts between haulers and curb.. majority of area customers, - local towns are renewed- • SF1 serves a number of muriià- In' ddition, rising health ipfilities in this area, including insurance premiums and an Geneva. Waste Management increasing need for haulers to serves Wheaton and Wmfield and operates the Settler's Hill transport garbage to remote A rir landfills will force those within landfill in Kane County. Onyx the industry to ultimately _ serves St Charles and Batavia. - increase costs to the consumer • Where the trash goes after it is within the next few years, said placed curbside by residents .•.-. 1 ' Orb iàrd,Hill2 depends on which hauler serves Frank McCoy, manager of the n far! Elgin office of hauler Browning ., the community. Ferris Industries Inc. For SF1 customers, all trash is " .wl etsl Chi, taken from garbage trucks to the Cl DuKane Waste Transfer Station Rising business costs Labor costs for garbage work- in West Chicago. At that facility, ers increased after a new con- Which waste haulers serve which communities? trash is dumped by the local tract was reached last fall Onyx drivers and processed for trans- between striking union garbage B Ft Waste Management - fer to regional landfills in larger workers and management, fol- Glen Ellyn Wheaton St. Charles semi-tractor trailers, McCoy Batavia lowing a two-week halt to trash Bloomingdale Winfield said. pickup throughout the Chicago Glendale Heights The Dulcane facility is owned area. Roselle Flood Brothers Arc Disposal & and operated by Crown Base wages for workers are Itasca Carol Stream Recycling Disposal Inc., which is paid a expected to increase by roughly Geneva Wanrenville processing fee by other contrac- 22 percent before 2008. Haulers' Bartlett Crown Disposal tors using the site. Crown also contributions to health insur- West Chicago serves as West Chicago's coo- ance and pension funds will McCoy said. dumping fees to dispose of use, In addition, local govern- traded waste hauler. From there, trash handled by increase by a combined 16 per- The largest costs for a waste waste in landfills. The increase in ments, including villages or BR is taken to a landfill owned cent this year alone, McCoy said. disposal company are trans- state fees last year will need to be counties where landfills or trans- State licensing fees have • and controlled by the company portation, labor and disposal. carried on to consumers, he fer stations are located, are paid increased for haulers 36 percent near Dixon, about 80 miles west "The big cost is having added. hosting fees by the owners of over last year. of the West Chicago site, McCoy Haulers using waste transfer such facilities, said Bill Plunkett, "Anyone running (the waste trucks driving past everyone's added. home every week," McCoy said. stations or landfills operated by a spokesman for Waste business) in this area is going to See Trash Page 6 be looking at these same costs," Companies pay state and local another company pay for their Management Inc.

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By Steve Lord eeac-Ofl STAFF WFJTER netO5 GENEVA—Kane County officials want to make sure a turf dispute between two publicly supported health clinics in Aurora does not endanger a federal grant conthig to the area Members of the County Board )ixeculive Committee on Wednesday recommended a resolution that &vould allow the county to receive a $409,240 Health Resources and Services Administration grant The

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the resolution next week, the county could receive the funding and disperse it to Aunt Martha's to renovate a building at 101 S. Broadway—at the soGthwestOrfler of Broadway and Benton Street The grant has the support of the Kane County Health Department, which, along with Provena Mercy Center and Rush-Coply Medical Center, applied for the grant - "If we turn this down, it's going back to the federal government." said Gerry Jones, 0-Aurora, Public Health Committee chairman. it's probably not going to come back here." - But Linnea Wmdel, president and CEO of the Visiting Nurses Association, urged County Board members to consider letting the grant lapse and applying for a new agreeing to "fáthre consolidation," one only if Aunt Martha's considers wtuchtheflread noty to do. another location for the clinic. The I She saidwednesday the VNA YNA runs a free health clinic in TURF WAR wantu to make sure nothing hinders downtown Aurora - on Downer From page Al a planned expansion of the YNA • Place atom from City Hall, and the y federal- tunic, which wants to stay renovated AuntMarthn's clinic approved by all necessar would be only about a block away- agencies, which on Both have notheVNAa11 downtown untMartkss - "We provide the same service to s how close such essentially the same people, the restrictionfacilities may be- They said being agree the need for two clinics is close to the VNA should be a there. With both clinics atfull uninsured and the underinsured," y reach only about 40 Whidel said. "Considering the need positive factcr, the VNA provides does percentcapacity, of the the 31,525 people in is across Aurora, it is illogical to some services AuntMrtha's A=, thelederal government says place two so close to each other? not, so Aunt Martha's; refers are eligible for subsidized health Windel said the VNA does not oppose the present Aunt Martha's of those people are on the clinic in the 400 block of Downer tst Side of Aurora. Aunt Place, about four blocks away from sofficials said a downtown the VNA's facility. She said the need ar where the need is. They is so greatfor primary health care in officials are not so sure. situm out that 'nan)' people walk Aurora, that 'Aurora is very 3ack in 2001, when the Health point +nn tn the fortunate to have two clinics." Department. Aunt Martha's, ortal< 'Ws not a question of stopping it E'rovena Mercy Center and Rush'clinic Ws where it should be placed," Copley formed the Aurora Primary availa Windel said. Care Consortium, they ashed the "IV Coordination or competition? VNA to participate. too. The- need consortium planned to apply for mean fly stumped at how, Both the VNA and Aunt Martha's federal funds, but the YNA decided said, tics running and the providea full range of medical and with to apply Oo its 0 area erserve!i. it matters dental services for all people, - Windel said that, at the timeme the two blocks or four regardless of their ability to pay. contract, to join with the other wile Aunt Martha's officials said their , would have meant bloc the new building has been agencies Move to . + Turn to TURF WAR, A2 • - I ' • . . W.0 = TI P

CA C. Bit Ramsey Continued from page 1 -Ct AH a' C, ao o 0) • Attorneys from Massa- chusetts, New Jerse)c florida lcentucky, Missouri and Cali- fornia claimed that the time -U. •ilt'; t taken to mach the settlement, the amount and Ramsey% m' lationship With Foote sug- gested a collusion with Nestle. 'Although Colwell ac- knowledged that Ramsey likely would lose lithe lawsuit went to trial, he endorsed the - settlement because he said nq!fl further' litigation would be costly for both sides. An ap- pealwas filed Dec. 1, 2003. • Nestle also is required to - 8 a' pay about $10.8 million over five years in coupons, cbs-,. counts and donations to charities, according to the bO settlement,: which ends •-'- aS .., - least 10 similar lawsuits against the company ! Foote declined to com- ment further on the matter,. I fl but said he and Ramsey :% wa'.n'ta'daflli -go would decide which organi- a 0 S EE zations night receive a por- CD tion of the sheriffs shard of jflnifra the settlement a''4 i&e look forward to t a tt9_ o_ut being able to help local char.: E to - ities with some of the settle- ment money7 Foote said. Ct 19 C5 €E .LE cem 20." -- •o C) CO .0 P(Sfld DlC) .Eaoboa' ..u:

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McCoy said he and State's Currently it operates out of GENEVA '-- The Geneva Attorney Meg the, brick house at Fifth and Historic Preservation Com- Gorecki met • James streets, and the expan- mission approved drawings of inwith corn- ion will take place oil land at the county's Child Advocacy i S 5 i 0 n Fifth and Campbell streets, site Center, clearing the way for an members last of an abandoned house.. expansion of the facility month and A residential setting helps On Wednesday, the Kane asked what ease the fears of children, who County's Executive Committee the county must act as witnesses in the authorized a $47,840 contract can do to sat- abuse cases. . with Geneva architectural firm isfy 'their re- The commission's approval Adams Design Group to de- quirements. McCoy of the-design includes the tear- velop schematic drawings for McCoy said down of the abandoned the 4,587-square-foot build- they. . recommended Terry county-owned house at 427 ing. Adams of 'Adams Design Campbell, where the . new "I think we've cleared the Group, which has performed building would go up, McCoy main . hurdle," county board work in the city's historic dis- aid. Chairman Mike McCoy said. trict. The office at Fifth and James The commission in April The building's new design streets is too small, limiting staff 2003 rejected the county's pro- faces Campbell Street The re- members to interview one fan- posal for the advocacy center's jected design faced Fifth Street. ilyatatime. In another example annex because it appeared too The- exterior design ap- of the space limitations, three much like a commercial build- pears more residential, but the employees share a single desk ing and would have looked out interior provides , the same The new building also of place in the city's historic space; and the cost, $600,000, would provide a medical exam- district. is the same as the rejected de- ining room. The CAC currently The historic commission sign. rents 'space at the Delnor acts in a capacity similar to the "It looks like a house," Hospital Health and Wellness plan commission. It can rec- McCoy said. Center. Kane seeks domestic violence grant 7-s•-oq PAron,r- 7) .. c_ . - - 11db 'VU! in St. Charles would give the Bush has made $20 million prosecutors program a location in the assigned to central part of the county, its domestic said Gretchen Vapnar, execu- available nationwide violence tive director of Community unit. Crisis Center. If the "This would result in ByTOM SCHLUETER Mutual Ground and county re- Kane County Chronicle many more victims coming Community Crisis Center ceives the LS2J forward," Vapnar said. give Kane County the best grant, the VanOvermeiren One of the committee's GENEVA - Kane County counseling program in attorneys, will act as the lead agency for two Democrats used the Illinois, Healy, said. along with sheriff deputies opportunity to criticize a $1.5 million U.S. "We were strongly en- to act as investigators, would Bush. Department of Justice grant couraged to apply for this be at the Randall Road of- "Twenty million dollars to help fight domestic vio- grant," she said. fice. lence. - across the country seems to The county must act as "Domestic violence is be a piddling amount of The grant was written the lead agency to meet grant rampant across this county" money from the Bush admin- jointly by the county's two requirements. said Caryl VanOvermeiren, R- istration," said Paul Gre- domestic violence counseling The grant would provide St. Charles. "I think we viskes, D-Aurora. centers, Mutual Ground in money for counselors, inves- need to take a positive look at McCoy said the office Aurora and Community tigators and office space for this." would need 5,000 square feet, Crisis Center in Elgin. 18 months. The state's attorney's unit which would include a large Mutual Ground Executive County board Chairman was begun under a state conference room. Director Linda Healy said it is Mike McCoy told members of grant. The Regional Office of a competitive grant with 369 the Executive Committee When the grant expired Education is expected to applicants nationwide. Wednesday that they must last January, the county took move to the Randall Road site "We are not assured of decide whether to continue over the unit's annual cost of and will need about 30,000 getting an3fthing," Healy said. paying for the program if and $408,000. square feet of space. Healy said President Bush when the federal dollars run Setting up an offlce.at the The county has about has made $20 million avail- out. Randall Road site in the old 40,000 square feet of un- able.. The state's attorney's of- Moritgonieryward's building used space in the building. E L C)3.a C E.E i t 0) 0=0 CtCJD •00) C54 (O 0C.,C)c' o' E I ol 'SC) I 0400. I M boo •a i

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RyWilliani Presecky Tdbune staff repotter Before pulling the plug on a • plan to build a high-power transmission line alongRandail • Road In Kane CountM Common' wealth Edison Co. said Thura' • da9 that It asked the Illinois Commerce Commission to de- lay action for another 30 days while It confers with "all inter- ested parties" on a less-Intru- sive proposal. Local officials and residents criticized ComEds proposal to build an elevated, high-voltage • line for about 16 miles along or p near Randall Road in east-can- - tralxane;Theutultysaidttwas the least-expensive means of providing reliable electric ser- • vice to the fast-growing area, but opponents objected for an array of reasons ranging from appearance to alleged adverse - - environmental Impact. CornEd's less-expensive alter- - native to the proposed 138-kilo- volt transmission line on Ran- dall Incorporates the use of ex- Isting poiver lines and more au- tnn.ated substations. The re-

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Her continued attempts ture land-use plans and a con- -tend the meeting Saturday and to hold Power certainly signs]. • troversial proposed develop- could not be reached byphone. something about her character ment slated for the tthincorpo- Wyndham also is the developer out thatpeople should take note of rated area in central Kane of a residential project at This is no longer about her, She • County* : Harley and Keslinger roads, should step down and allow a. "Wewant to bring everyone and Town &.Counuy built the replacement to be taken. The bust was violated and she up to speed so they don't feel as Harvest Hills townhouses on dents are not being communi- • if they've been left out of the Peck Road In St. Charles. cated to' I draft want them needstogetptthepower • lOOn) said Tacit Stone, of La Fox is about four square politics and let law take its speaking forme. I don't think course. • Concerned La Fox Area miles, roughly defined by they should bemaldngdecis Residents: The planning open Route 38, Keslinger Road, ions without the community's house was held at Lord of Life Harley Road and Brundige input, and l know them is an No builder on board • Church at the corner of Route Road. The area includes orgahir.ation, but they arm. I'm calling in regard to the 38 and LaFoit Road. The four- around 580 residenti - obviously nor doingtheirjob In • hour meeting drS more than Repuhilchji cañ&dateso - "Our big concerns are pop- repmsentingthetdminuni running forcotypositions un • 7opeop!e. ulatlon density, architectural C • • when they don't communicate Wehaveabuijderwhois At issue is an unnamed res- style and the layout,"said Mike with us and ask what wefeel responsible for building strip identia] and commercial dèvel: lessen, a contractor who has about this. malls and homes and • dpment proposed by lived inLa Fox for six yeàrs. Wyndham Deerpoint Homes Grand Prairie hasbeen h • and Town & Country Homes dropped asthenameofthede- Move back to city This is in responseto .00tqiyur ungaoullcier, Arney • for a lot atBunker and LaFox velopment, lessen said. He said Silvestii, becausehe'sa builder. roads. Initially called Grand the developers haven't I pro- 7 farmer's dust beingpollution. al Do you know where your food Prairie, the development. first posed a new name yet, but this individual is On the board . surfaced in 2001 and called for -hive agreed to have La Fox as comes from? Not just the I grocery store. The food we eat disagree, I liken the subj Oct of • 1,BoO houses onl,Zoo acres. La part offt. having a builder on the board,. Fox residents were worried CLAR is working on a La every day is grown righthere, possibly comingfrom the • about the housing density and. Fox Comprehensive Land Plan, t, oufcojin thesamasIwould put the project's retailarecent version of which was fmierthatyouwanttoputout viewhnvinc, • shopping elements might have on display at Saturday's meet- of business or make trouble for. - on the area. It sparked the for- higdtenderings showed howLa 0 • malion of CLAB. The group Fox might look with a new F" Wants to eventually incorpo' school, a community park and - rounuy-reanze mat you are Construction rnistake?,k rate La Pox Into a village in the Metra train station that's al- order -to. have more input on ready under construction, yes, dust is common on forms. • Whei Kane County built • the growth in their community among other new elements. If this is something you cannot the Judicial Center, didi?t they CLAJI representatives said lessen said the point of handle, move back to the city realizeTheywere building it In Sdtutday that they're getting ,Saturday's meeting was Infor- where them is.no dust, only $LChades? I always thought more comfortable with the mational and to keep La Fox smog. I ready wish the Kane the government for Kane • proposed development lately area residents up to date. County Board would stop County.was In Geneva Didn't • .beôausè the builders have 'We don't want anyone in people from moving into . agreed to reduce the density to the area to feel like were nego- ° farming communities unless 7 . around i,ioohomes. tiating without thern7 he said. Ax they understand all the things They've let us have some. Jessen said CI..AR and the de- (dust and smells, good and bad) input, so now -we feel much veopers will continue meeting that go with it. ' better," said CLAWs Donna to work out a development • - Néller. "Density has been one plan that fits the La Fox Chairman's ego trip of ourbig ithues'.Comprehensive Land Plan and lit.. . I'm still not totally clear on :She said that the Grand the Kane County 2020 Land whyMegGoieckiisbeing beournew -Prairie plan at fist did not Resource Management Plan. a punished for something that courthouse. • match the character of La Fox.- He said the next public meet- Y happened even before she ran 'Development is going to ingprobablywiilbeinApnl. . for office, Whatkindofa friend holds onto a tape for years? It's a real shame. Ihad an opportimityto sit on a grand jury this year earlierand, out of all the hundred or so cases that we heard, she was the best. attorney that we heard. It's really. alóss for the county. U,... .k, "attn

tctcic 1 tc.epc/He -C/iron' cLc Corecki driven from Actions reflect position unfairly poorly Kane County attorney Meg To the Editor. Gorecki is being driven from I find it extremely ironic that office unfairly. Meg Gorecki would claim her The supposed single offense absence from the States Attorney was a conversation two years Office would be disruptive to its before her election when she proceedings while in fact, it is held no office of responsibility. her very presence that has been a The offense consists of the incredible distraction for more interpretation of remarks to ,a than three years. "end's" persistent requests for Gorecki has made a mockery help in getting ajob. of the very system she has been Gorecid was irritated by the sworn to uphold. She has made repeated calls and in casual every end-run possible to escape terms advised the caller to work the consequences for her for officeholders and contribute actions. Actions that are not in to them. Such a remark has two dispute and actions that violated possible messages. the rules that she and her Did Gorecki advise the caller profession are bound by. Are we expected to believe that it has been business as normal at the Kane County States Attorney's Office while this atrocity - continues. What about the cost? Has YOU want a public job? anyone thought about the This old heretofore unknown dollars this has cost the conversation became a last- taxpayers? Consider the hours, minute campaign accusation: days, weeks and months that Even so, Gorecki won the elec- have occupied the time and tion over the incumbent resources of the various courts, prosecutor David Akemann. the review boards, the While still in office, Akemann disciplinary committees, the sought an investigation. state licensing authority, the • Goreckiwasclearedofany tountyboald. etc. My estimate offense but the pursuit of of the cost is in the tens of Gorecki continued, causing her thousands of dollars — and for termination as prosecuton By what? that time, those who weren't The states attorney should be Part of the Kane County "office- the example of integrity and holders protection network' honesty, and have character concluded that the charges werbpoliticallymotivated by above reproach This is not the the sore losers, Gorecki herself case with Gorecki. Forsome apologized profusely for the reason thinks her own agenda is careless remarks. more important than the My impression is that reputation of her office, and of Kane County. Gorecki's professional and tions have reflected Personal standards are higher Her ac than those of applicable law or poorly on all of us. Gorecki has -those of her accusers.. dominated the front page of the She would not st000 to savinc newspapers for more than three years, and for all the wrong reasons. Not as the county's top prosecutor, but as the county's ladmire. top arrogant and selfish Politician. despise the Why no one in authority has public servanL 'We are losing the called for Gorecki to leave office services of a really fine prosecu- and let the county get on with its torwho has served in office work is a total mystery to me. - without blemish of any sort, Had this scenario played out in and who enjoys the high regard the private stor, the offender of the attorneys working for her. would have had two choices, A lesson should be learned resign or be fire d. Should we that partisan politics has expect any less from our electe d no place in the prosecutor's officials, office. The power of that office - Let mebeso bold 5t0ask is great; they decide which Meg Gorecki: For once in this cases to prosecute. 'whole ordeal to do the right thing There is the potential to let and resign. some off and to pursue political want Dick Graff prosecutarsha'ar St. Charles to set a record by niittin notches in their gun belE The lawmustbe enforced, but it should not become the Ramsey lauded for enemy of the powerless or the sensible response reformer. A new election will replace Goredd. Three cheers for Kane County lasersHopeklly one of the sore Sheriff KanRanyswords on wfllnotgetthispowerfnj the Randall Road S-curvj top spot and continue political To blame a road for people's vendettas, Stupidity and careless driving is Jack Romer ridiculous beyond words. President flm Sciunidgall Family lhxpayers Network Elgin - Carpentersville

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for veterans. C 0=• Memorial. Ct (3 By TOM SCHLI,JgrEJt 4- U Kane County Chronicle GENEVA—Officialswlilaccom '-I modate an anticipated need for C E more uarlddr at the c'nupnln,nnt anameinorial a SWat •0 = I H tor of the Environmental Manag. ement Department. "The target audience we want to reach comes to this building • every day," Harbaugh said. The demonstration plot will show the difference in how water • runs off the existing asphalt lot and one built of paving bricks de- -ii signed to allow water to drain through them. 4) OVOC) .11t"bO.J The forest preserve district is • consnuicting a similar demonstra- 42 002 lion project in the parking lot at .112 2.ct tg • Elftrom Stadium at the Events n e'°-I and Cultural Center on Kirk Road.. n tot Project manager Ken °'&M4 • Anderson said the lot is meant.to fl2i provide spaces for visitors to the 0 '' 0 !I 111 Ct memorial; but the new lot will 22 2 0 provide overflow panting for the C° °LbO'® CtGJ existing lot in front ofBuildingk 0 Once the new lot is built, gov. °''.ot eminent center traffic will be ct ooa, "' iu! '$ g2 P. Ø' rerouted. The new lot will be con- V o,,C e'.m V • nected to the existing one, which means visitors no longerwill have "is,CCt...0 t&) 'o,e ,2.cU W drive behind Building A to reach the front door. V 4.0 C,. .0 0 O - Anderson said when develop- '' em come to the county to apply t 0 t>, C)b0C) U • for -building permits, they are en- 'ohfl oCi - couraged to use best practices" V-fl 9 ,c°>,'dS in construction. in building a g . V$' parking lot, "best practices" means reducing the amount of .' stormwater runoff, throughthe ,. 0,0 o use of andmaterials such as paving St rNIi bricks native-plantings, If builders have questions, IIIH1 theyand can be shown the parking lot told, "This is what we're talking about, right out in front," 'o o Anderson said. ; The project is expected to cost be S220,000. The money will come out of the landfill surcharge fund, which is restricted to environ- OVC)'O ,c'ASt' 5" $ mental projects. • The .veterans -memorial dedi- •a !:; cation is set for Veterans Day, Nov oR ci OVO "V 0Z O CtV rd t.,o'" >° ii. It will feature the names of nbe Ct t. . oo°. Vt- t.C) Kane County residents who were t C, m''u 0. killed in service to their country V,CO)='00 during the 20th century. The memorial will display • bronze plaques depicting the conflicts of the 20th century, as 'Fa ° 19-E well as educational information Td abouteach one, g IflilU:HH I'uIID H =çt OV'Z V aI . I - D.SCM VO' "'Etnod gwori I .,'. 4 h

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oKs : cireu it coUrt fees. • y±bM SCHLUETER each animal. Kane Cdunty Chronicle Another major change is that shelters will be required The Kane County Board's to hold all animals for seven Executhe .Committee.áP- business days, as opposed to • proved an increase in circuit •• theold law's seven calendar • court fees. . .: days.. This:is not the first time These changes are over- the court fee increase was due, supporters say. Too :passed onby committee. .The, many stray dogs and cats board has been debating the lead miserable lives with no • issue since May 2003. - one to take care of them. • Some boardmembers, .• They tend to meet members such asJOhn Noerini, It- . of the oppositesex and make carpentersville and Margaret baby animals, which leads to Scalfard, RCarpentersville more animals leading miser- are opposed to government able lives; taking more money and can The microchip technol- be expected to vote against ogy will make it easier for pet. the increase at Thesday's owners get their pets back. • board meeting. . And the seven-day period The other side of the:argw would give owners a more. time to pick up their pets. ment is that more money is * * - -. needed to maintain the level • Of goiretnment services: The Kane County Animal The fee increase will bring Shelter continues to move in an additioriàl $250,000 a : forward,.though mostly yeai.mundane things relatedto The increases will be the zoning,.utilities and added tOcrimhial charges, so working put agreements with • the majorityof taxpayers will Geneva.1. • riot feel the stin g.: . Geneva plans to buy land H . froth the county atPeck Another measure approved Keslinger roads for a drinking at Executive Committee was water treatment plant. It is • amendments to the animal the same site for. animal shel- control ordinance. . ter. This is another ordinance . Since the land is unincor- • I • that has been bouncing porated, the city needs to • afpund committees for a• annex it to provide the site • while, this one since . with sewer and water.se- September. • ices. • The changes willrequire • And;onte the landis.: animal shelters to pay and within thecity limits it needs neuter all animals and insert to conform to city zoning reg identifying microchips in . ulations..

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How many offices can one hold? &-L2-O-i_O/-1f-oI1;dc Law unclear whether Van Cleave can serve on 'së/iool, county boards .1' ByTOM SCHLUEThR Kane County Chronicle the&stoffice held. b oa S Nothing prevents a school GNEVA—.A1though there are conflicting Contthuèd from page 1- . board member from running 'legal opinions Whether Someone can hold for an office, Green said.: VanCleave's term. on the • twb.elected offices on local boards, there 'i no -Izzo cited a 1982 case from school board ends in April • clêar-cut guidance on the .issue. - Tazewell Count',ç' where a 2005. Batavia.School'Board President Thomas member of the South Pekin . Kane -. County Regional Vancleave is.seeking the Republican nomina- Village Board was elected to the, School Superintendent' Clem tion for thee-Kane 'County •-,. South Pekin- Elementary Mejia said the county board Board.' District '10 seat. 44. ak --School Board. The Tazewell does not provide funding for Anthony Cvek, one of his- fr County state's attorney then school districts and has no • opponents in the March ' 1±iedto force the removal ofthe regulatorypower over school 16 primary, sai holg. - -individualfrom - the' school - districts."- . .... both positions would be A - board. Theappellate .court UP- - Mejià said that, in his - a conflict of interest. held the official's claim to both opinion, the'. two -pOsitions Cvek saia Vancleave seats, and in 193 the casewent -would be compatible because • should announce whether he to the Illinois Supreme Court - the county board is apaid po- would 'step down from the school board if he Izzo said the school board sition while the school board • wins in November. term ended before the is volunteer. - - - "A decision should be thade and .the vot- Suiiieme Court could hear the. ' ' "There ale' tértaiñ posi ers 'should be informed," Cvek said. case, afterwhich it vacated the tions you can hold and still be appellate court decision. -. a school board member,' VanCleave said he would like to hold - Izzo' , said the Supreme , -Mejia said. • both offices but would step down from the Court's action left Illinois with - - . lzzo'also said be sees .:nb - school board if it werefound to-be incom- no clear-cut rulings on the conflict. patible.'':, issue, only nonbinding opin "It isvery common for the. If it does prove to be a conflict, I would ions. , , people of Illinois to, sit on two • give up the school board,"-VanCleave said. • "We have no binding au- different local governing bod-. Cvek ,cited a 1993 Illinois Attorney thority one -way or the other," - ies," Izzo said. General's opinion from Roland-Burns that .lzzo said. , ' - Jaw said an, officer can • said the positions are "incompatible." : The appellate court's dcci- hold positions on two boards, The Illinois State Board of Education also - son, J.zzo said, holds as much -:until a -judge rules that he or says that holding .a school board seat and authority as, an opinion from she cannot. other elected offices is incompatible. the attorney general. - - 1 take the attorney gener- • However, VinCleave said that before he Naomi GreOn, press officer als' 'opinions with a grain of decided to run for the • county board, he with' the State '-Board of salt," Izzo said. sought advice :from Education, said the agency's Joe Fdrrone, who ,"also attorney 'John Izzo, general counsel advised that seeks the District 10 Repub- who tiled an Illinois appellate court ruling oncc:a school board member litan nomination, said voters .that said-holding the two offices was com- - accepts a 'second position, shoulddecide.-.--. patible. - .... . meaning when the officer The - primary winner will takes the oath ofoffice, he or face Democrat Howard Katz - See BOARDS, page 2H: she automatically resigns from in November. -

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I fl:DAILY HERALD A 25-acre water park that is '. expected to draw up to 5,000 visitors a day has been pm- centers in neighborhoods, but posed for St. Charles' east side. we are looking to provide an all- The $15 million facility would day entertainment venue." open in the summer of 2005, if The site plan also includes 15 approved by city leaders. The St. acres of parking and 13 acres of Near sports complex site Charles plan commission is commercial development, be sold. The park would employ itself would be built below sweet scheduled to consider prelimi- which the developer expects to - - level so the noise would be con- nary plans Tuesday. lease to a casual dining restau- 125 to 150 workers. • Developer Randy Witt of rant. - The 15 to 18 attractions would tamed on site, lirhausen said. The water park would have to include tube slides and a wave Witt also plans to donate 5 Hanover Park said the water pool The park would be larger acres of the site to the city for an park would be family-oriented be annexed into St. Charlesoverall as thanMagicWaters park in Rock- electric substation. and suitable for children of all part of the city council's ford and of similar quality to the St. Charles Park District ages. He considered more than approval of the project. water parks in the Wisconsin Director James Breen was 80 sites across the suburbs, More than 300,000 people Dells, Urhausen said. unsure if the water park would including the east side of annually are expected to visit 'We hope to be the largest; relieve overcrowding at the park Geneva, before settling on a 70- the water park, which would be most state-of-the-art water park district's Pottawatomie swim- acre site at Kirk Road and open from 10 a.m. to 7p.m. ming pool. Division Street, just east of the daily, said development consul- The entrance to the park "It's agreat thing for the corn- St. Charles Park District's East tant Jim Urhausen. The season • would be located off Division munity utmost people aren't Side Sports Complex. would run from Memorial Day Street, which would be going to go there on a daily • "This is a market that is lack- to Labor Day extended farther east. Thepark basis," Breen said. ing a major water park" said Admission would cost $23 to Witt, a general contractor and $25 a person. Alcohol would not partner of Lundmark Group

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• No laughs in this làwyér joke Three lawyers walk into a bar and state's auOrneyshave the legal authoriLyto leave with four different opinions, continue prosecuting criminals on behalf of Or so goes a version of the lawyer joke. the people of Kane County? But the little quip offers a layman's Still remember attorney opinions? explanation of the latest chapter of the Gorecki does not like McCoy's idea. Nor Meg Goreckisaga: Call it" MyLega.l does she likeall of Madigans. So she goes Opinion is Better than yos."ur to the umpire and asks that Mccoy be Gorecld's law license is suspended for blocked from asking the county board - four months because she concocted a for direction and that she be allowed to story that a countyhighway job could be choose her replacement - bought with a campaign donation. That The umpire?The only attorneywhose she spunthe yarn before being elected opinion blimps a lawyer's— ajudge. -lcanecounty State's Attorney is- Gorecici's move was unique. - irrelevant. Attorneys —now don't laugh Essentially, her attorneys asked a judge are not supposed to lie.. . to block an action from possibly Gorecki did, and in doing so ran afoul occurring. The With thein ethics panel that oversees all and the count) • lawyers the state. Gorecki's . . By 14-10 misfortune, as opposed to others in the members deck 'ecid can return. In legal community who bend the truth in effect, the vote :Coy not to an honestly fervent effort to serve their challenge thee of Madigan nor • clients, is That her critics complained to Gorecki. The vc 'Let's move on? the Attorney Registration and Buttheme not as simple as Disciplinary Commission. some would ha rtrayed. Of the 10 • Jn legal circles, itis called getting eounty board n 5 voting to bar Theefedto the AflDC.' . . . Gorecki from r g, all 10 live either -mat was tour years ago. Fast forward in the north orsi ndiofthecounty. to today's battle of legal opinions. The We can-cloak ninty board's prize: if not Gorecld's neck, then at least decision in man ive ways. Certainly, . net position as state's attorney. Gorecki's however, an attn )uld look at the reputation, as it always has, remains in tally and argue if Ui-vs-South-vs. nstifl breathes. le shadows is a memo Gorecld ssued in May2003 prosecutor's office whose very mission is iFirst Assistant to prosecute lawbreakers? :r role should, for any reason, trippedofher duties. The is, "In the eventof is not active during the time of her. - to attendthe duties suspension. As such, Gorecki's office is ut not limited to not vacant and she can return. from practice of law by' • Now, just as Gorecki is the top law )urt of Illinois... - enforcement officer of Kane County, s for her - Madigan is the top law enforcement is before she was officer of the state. When the county ePhilip L board has a legal question, it turns to its flowed those counsel in the state's attorneys office. ed Assistant Kane When a state's attorney has a legal. Katherine Moran question, it turns to Madigan's office; to fill Gorecld's position. . Here is the rub. Madigan is an. There is no civics lesson in this . -. attorney, just like 75,000 other, attorneys episode. The Gorecki matter became in Illinois. Historically, the attorney messy because those revamping the- general's office does not like it when they Illinois Constitution in 1970 never are relegated to the same status of other envisioned a sitting states attorney attorneys. In effect, however. theAG's Would be forced to step down. It spiraled opinion is just that - an opinion. . out of control because although Madigan said Gorecki can stay, but interesting politically, most people do not also said the Kane Countyjudiciary, not-- concern themselves with lawyers unless Gorecki or County Board Chairman Mike they absolutely have to, and because they McCoy, gets to pick her replacement. already have a distrust of government. Remember attorney opinions?Well, , ' That.dlstrust is borne from elected McCoy's attorney Look the position that . leaders doing foolish things. And then Madigan is wrong and that Gorecki denying them. And then other elected cannot return to office. The theory goes leaders trying to capitaliie on the that if Gorecki does not have 'a valid law misfortune, while still other elected license she has to step down, and If she leaders duck and cover because they do steps down she simply cannot step back not want to offend a friend. 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CD -t I Es a' a' a, a n& 2 -9 E V 4, 2:5 -U o A1mfl 'C Ct h tC) hji flaflj 0 H ct Cl) C') 1 !i'•' forthereco rd The Beacon News tries to be accu- Kane rate and fair in County, every story it pub- lishes. When a mistake occurs, we want to fix it To report errors, call the managing editor at 85831; scores deal with free.. computers receaitdeatfts. £9-°q Bcnco,i By Steve Lord partly responsible for the hookup Obituaries / Page AS STAFF WRITER .n(4 %.^ 2> between the partnership and the coroner's office, Allison, Herbert W. "Smfle" Aurora GENEVA - The projection on thbe,t, "You're going to be thoroughly Marian E., 81, Batavia the screen saidit all. amazed. I- was, and I come from a Mbiiyoo, Alvin, .90, formerly Paw Lake many other instances in the . technology background. The cost Kane County Board room, a corn- saving of not having to hire addi- Weiler, Bernard K., 79, Aurora pany was using a projection from a - tional personnel as this county computer to present a new product grows is going .to be big... - to board members. The arrangement is one of con- Like many other instances, venience. The partnership is will- board members listened, anticipat. ing to provide it cost-free to the i'he Beacon News ing that make-or-break moment county to develop atrack record for when the bottom line would pop upthe system so it can be marketed • AHollinger on the screen--- the cost. - International publication - across the country. What made things different at . Phoebe Tree, of BSE, said the - the board's Public Safely Commit- system has been used since 1999 in 3. 'River St., Aurora, IL 60506 .tee meeting this week is that when Sweden, where it is a common part hours: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. that cost popped up, the highlight of government, but it is new to the Jay-Friday. Closed holidays; was a goose egg. A big zero. $0. U.S. Nada. ;paper déliveiy . "You guys are not guinea pigs," Veber, circ4lation manager - The new, state-of-the-art coitiput- she said. "Ifs not like ther,e are a lot mersenlee phies - er system will be installed in the of bugs to work out. This is tried 844-5600 or (8Q0) 244-5844 Kane County coroner's office at no and true. It ha's been tested." m&senlce e-mail? cost to the -county. . - The system works using a pen [email protected] . The system will allow coroner's that writes like a ballpoint, but also Ctonier service hours employees to file information di- - .has acamera in it that records what 9ä0 am.- 6p.m.. weekdays rectly into a computer at the scene is being written. The pen can be 741; am. weekends of a death investigation, have it fill used directly on paper, but also 5:30-10 am, holidays out the paperwork automatically writes on tablets on the screens of Home delive.ytimes and send it back immediately to-the Toshiba laptops. 6:30 am. weekdays and holidays 7trn. Saturdays. 8a.m. Sundays. coroner's data base; It will work Imagine writing directly with a with the dozens of different forms pen onto a word processing docu- '2f you do not receive your paper by at the coroner's office. tour delivery deadline, please call ment, touching a button that con- customer service before 10a.m. "This is quite an improvement," verts the handwritten words to - weekdays (or II am, weekends) Coroner Chuck West said of the typewritten words and puts them in. hind we will deliver yourpaper by system, developed by a partnership - the proper box on the form. noon. of CDW-G Business Systems Engi- Anything on the laptop tablets $liMcnplion rates neering of Chicago (BSE),Sprint; can be sent, using a Sprint wireless Hobte dernern $3.25 weekly; $2.25 Toshiba; Logitech; and Anoto. €dday-Sunday; $1.50 Sunday (plus -card, back to the main computer jtermittent holiday issues) "We've been trying to work out a data base immediately. Fl wbseiiptious: $4 weekly. problem for three years on a sys- "You can,capture data directly Nçwsstand prices 50 cents daily, tern that's been obsolete for 12 onto the tablet and send it directly 31.50 Sunday. years." - back to the servers while in the 4 County officials are excited field,"saidIcimGuminoofCDW, Advertising about the prospect the system can . If the pen is used on paper, the - Diplay advertlsh,g be expanded to . Robert Wall, manager other paperwork- pen itself records what is written Gall (630) 844-5658 from 8a.m. to 5 intensive departments; such as and can be put into a dock and .pm. weekdays. Transportation, the Health Depart. downloaded into any personal com- Classified advertising ment, the Development Depart- puter. - - Call (630) 844-5811 from 6:30 a.m. to ment and the sheriffs office." - Partnership workers are ready to - 5p.m. weekdays. "I see this migrating to all de- begin work installing the system On-line adveitlslng partments," said board member anytime. The plan is to have it run- BrentAlbrecht, manager Ken Griffin, .D-Aurova;who was ' ningby May -1. -. - Cll8t5)4394377 from 8:39 am, to

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Area Trans-But as top brass for Metropo- like a gridlocked tollway, went nowhere portation lis 2020, a non-profit, so-called Study, a plan- "public-private" nk e BY M s thi tank, the DAVE ORRICK as Natarus' needling at the ning arm of the pair found themselves exactly & fourth meeting Of the North- Jeff Schielke Illinois Depart- where for years they have pub- eastern Illinois Regional ment of licly stated they want to be: Burt Natarus leaned over his Transportation Task Force, a• Transportation, or IDOT, NIPC making their case for better mic, squinting to his left down a blue-ribbon-type group estab-• is the Northeastern Illinois Plan- transportation planning to row of more than a dozen legis- lished by the General Assembly ning Commission, a group that regional leaders, lators, mayors and other measures population and other But their case got bounced. officials. earlier this year to fix the area's urban trends. congested commuting scene -. The RTA, or Regional Trans- What would happen to Pace's Sizing up his targets, the witty whatever it takes. nearly $150 million in annual Chicago alderman picked portation Authority, oversees operating costs? Ranney said he Batavia Mayor Jeff Schiellce to The group, which will make funding and planning for the had no answer, pick on. recommendations to the legis- suburban bus system, Pace, "We're helping the city of lature this spring, was Metra and the CIA (Chicago Woodstock Mayor Alan Batavia by taking in their resi- established, in part, to give the Transit Authority), ISHTA is the Cornue asked, "How would dents — and preventing suburbs a greater voice in trans- tollway board's formal democracy work under your sprawl," he said, drawing both portation funding requests in acronym. plan?" That wasn't part of their laughs and nods at his point: the face of a perceived statewide Another "outside- the -box " -recommendations, came the Retired empty-nesters from the Power imbalance favoring super-agency idea came when reply. suburbs return to Chicago, Chicago Democrats over subur- George A, Ranney Jr., an influ- Schaumburg Mayor Al Larson which helps keep commute- ban Republicans. ential Grayslake developer with defended Pace, pointing to its stretching sprawl in check. Lasting hours longer than its suburban political ties, pro- regional center near Woodfield Schielke chuckled at Natarus' planned 90 minutes, a host of posed destroying Pace. Instead, mall as evidence of "regional observation. ideas - referred to by insiders he suggested, individual county service," - The joking was as plentiful as as 'bold" and "outside the box]' Pianning organizations — CPOs And when RTA Chairman SUVs on the Northwest Tollway — were discussed. he called them - could work Thomas J. McCracken Jr. asked at 5 p.m. on Fridays. The scene None was passed, allowing an under the umbrella of the super the question on everyone's was a Chicago meeting Friday of alphabet soup of transit agency, which he called an RPO, minds, "Who would be the elected and corporate leaders or regional planning organiza- winner?" many panelists rolled acronyms to survive. don, and planning and transporta- For example, a proposed their eyes when Ranney tion works gathered to talk "merging of CATS, NIPC, RTA Ranney was joined by Jim responded: "The region]' about transportation topics. and ISTHA" into what some LaBelle, a Zion Republican and Afterward, Ranney brushed Solutions weren't as plentiful called a "super-agency" was former chairman of the Lake off the grilling. "I expected it," County Board who also has he said. "It's controversial stuff]' ac- /-L1 -1 w,uc 1 Forest preserve urged f-f'PtctOcI to take barn B y PATRICK WALDRON electronics Daily HeraldSIaffw,j',,. some kind of promise that the Matsushita has indicated it is Teeple Barn wouldn't cost tax. willing to give the property to a payers money, Trying to save the historic Teeple Barn in Elgin, the Kane government body, and the "If we were to lease it back to County Farm Bureau is pushing preservation group formed to the farm bureau it becomes the forest preserve to take over save the barn, AgTech, has been their responsibility" said com- working on the forest preserve missioner Gerry Jones, an the land on which the historic since on to step landmark sits. role. into that Aurora Democrat "They have A forest preserve takeover of to cover the cost.' the 4-acre barn site would be The latest version of the plan Some on the commission are just the step preservationists is to have the forest preserve not convinced and have asked say is needed to -start fund- take the land and lease the barn the staff to put together cost raising and securekick the barn's to the farm bureau. Kane estimates of the barn's annual restoration County Board Chairman Mike maintenance. "We don't want to begin a McCoy compared it to the rela- The matter was referred back capital campaign until that tionship the forest preserve has to the commission's utilization (ownership) is transferred," said with the Preservation Partners committee Steve Arnold, the farm bureau's of the Fox Valley, which oper-. The Teeple Barn is 118 years manager. ates the Fabyan Villa located at old and is the only 16-sided the Fabyan Forest Preserve in barn in the state. The barn, located off Randall Geneva. Road near the Northwest Toll- Its restoration will cost about way, is owned by Matsushita The issue to forest preserve $300,000 to be split evenly Electronic Components Corpo- commissioners is the expense between local fund-raising ration of America, the company of adding another building that efforts - from AgTech and the that manufactures Panasonic would need to be taken care of farm bureau — and a federal Most commissioners want preservation grant.

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If the streets are not re- Ruby said a referendum on the tax would delay collection for almost 0 day's village board meeting, paired within a few years, they trustees said they would continue would need total reconstruction. a year, putting the village that much further behind in its road repairs. g to examine the issue and hoped to Village engineer Jim Bibby said make a final decision soon. suchareconstructionwouldbe atleast "This (tax) is not something that The preliminary ordinance draft- twice as expensive as resurfacing. is, burdensome to our residents," ed for discussion calls for a natural "If we could tackle those streets Ruby said. Village staff estimated gas tax of 3 percent, a telephone now," Ruby said, "it would save us the cost of the tax would be about tax of 4 percent and an electricity a lot of money in the future, when $100 each year per household. a, Before making any decision on g, tax of less than 5 percent; which they disintegrate." would vary depending on total indi- Trustees agreed that road re- the tax, trustees, said, they want to C_ vidual consumption: pairs were crucial but were hesi- develop a more concrete plan for The village board could begin tant to support creating a utility tax road repairs and other capital pro- n- jects, such as a new village hail, po- Is collecting the tax 90 days after en- without further consideration. acting an ordinance. Trustee Mike Herlihy said the lice station and repairs to the Village President Mark Ruby tax ordinance should mandate that North Aurora Activity center. . . ------•-- — - p Ir Fence Post C)"W C Zon o Janes is best choice. .r Im .for circuit judge I. .PLO t I .3--' I am wridngto let the voters know who is the best choice for circuit judge in the Republican I primazy. Judge' Rob ert L. Janes is Ct V 'i 0 tb seeking the position of circuit cn EIL judge. He has done a marvelous E3 Ero job as an associate judge for the C "J past severiyears. 'Q Just go into his courtroom to , see for youre1f how courteously 'C and fairly he treats people fD El " despite the enormous court ç calls he musthandle. U '. Judge lanes had more than 22' years of legal experience in all areas of the law before he even became a judge. As an associate r-tiit1 Ilecaici judge, he has made quite an • impact He developed the video [ Officials: Stay off bOnd caflsthat have helped speed up court appearances I contaminated while reducing the number of court personnel having to travel, I land in Gilberts miles to their jobs. Hehas streamlined his court BY MAX SEIGLE calls to substantially reduce the He is a hard-Working and Daibj Hemkl Staff Writer hours and the number of days compassionate man whose • that citizens and police officers professional and community State environmental officials have to spend in court. life demonstrates his deep are urging people to keep off a • Inshort,hehasmadethe concern for the citizens of lead-contaminated site in court system a little more citi- our, community Gilberts so the property's poten- zen-friendly while saving the I strongly urge you to vote for tial harm to the community can taxpayers some money. Judge Robert L Janes On March be accurately assessed. At the same time, he does 16. He is the best choice we The IEPA announced Friday it what a judge is supposed to have for circuit judge. was sealing off a portion of the do: decide the tough and Patrick J. Brazill Kedzie property off Galligan • important cases before him Geneva Road north of Wiley Road on an impartial basis, because soil samples tested • Judge Janes has embraced 11 about 11 percent positive for programs that are helping Lt lead contamination. Groundwa- people to rehabilitate them- ter infiltration hasn't been selves and reduce crime. reported. The site, roughly 3 to 5 However, Judge Janes has not acres, was the scene of an Octo- hesitated in handing out strict ber fire that emitted noxious sentences when warranted. fumes, sending two police offi- Judge Janes has been actively cers to the hospital and forcing involved with the community evacuation of 40 homes. for years, whether he is helping IEPA officials said the site seniors or.youngsters, students, once was used to recycle lead veterans or church members. from car batteries. IEPA said the threat of lead poisoning is soft- ened by show covet

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flcsE.;-n afl iu C) to sell old.. , 1Utfl 0 N school site • 2-as CD Homo pfrO to library fl(DjoE$fttt0 Steve 'alCo' ,wtO CDO' STAFF GENEVA - Kane County officials are set to sell the former Sixth Street School build- p; ts ing to the Geneva Public Library. County Board members are expected to approve a sale price of $1025 million at MU on a an.'eo today's board meeting. :CD From county officials' perspective, it is a CDCt!GOJ way to get rid of a building that has had little O Sao use for them since the Health Department n. o — moved out last year. While the RegiOnal CD Schools office still is in the building, a former 4o_ Geneva grade school, it will move to space in 00 the former Montgomery Ward building on Randall Road in St. Charles, where the Cir- °a cuit Clerk's office is. 0 CD From the perspective of Geneva city offi- g.0 Et cials, buying the school is the first step in a a. C, no u plan to redo public buildings and services oo-g; o0II downtown. ft0 a°• -. The library at some point will raze the Sixth Street School and build a new, larger li- -10 brary on the property. While the library will CD(D OQ n tCt-., not be downtown, it will be close and still in

QM about the center of the library district, which extends west of Geneva's city limits. When the library moves out of its current 3 location downtown, next to City Hall, city of- 1° izW ficials are expecting to expand there. That VM will leave room to convert the current City - Hall into a cultural arts center. I gg1E q All of these are long-range plans, because the library is not ready to move into a larger I0CD facility just yet Library officials would need a I !±L!! referendum from the electorate to increase the tax rate to pay for a new library building. That could be up to 10 years away, officials have said. Consequently, county officials still are un- sure exactly when they will move the Re- gional School offices out of Sixth Street School. ;-foO Wi/c1 //eccild County predicts major congestion in the Tn-Cities By GALA M. PIERCE said Mark Koenen, St. Charles' Daiby Herald Staff Wilier public works director, looking at the projections. "It% saying we're Kane County officials forecast going to have to live with con- major traffic congestion on gestion." Route 64 and Fabyan Parkway in The meeting was one of a the next 20 years. second round of meetings to get Widening Route 64 and Ran- input on the potential project dall to six lanes and Fabyan to list. The county expects to com- four lanes west of Randall are plete a draft of the plan in three solutions identified in the March and to adopt it in the county's 2030 transportation summer. plan. Only about a fraction of Developer-paid impact fees, the $2 billion sum of projects which the county recently might be accomplished. approved, will help with only "It's likely we might only see about 8 percent of funding for $300 million worth of projects construction, Rickert said. done over the next 20 years," "One of things we expressed said Tom Rickert, Kane County to the county board is that it's assistant director of transporta- going to be almost financially tion, at a public forum for the impossible to buy our way out plan Monday. of our congestion problems," About 20 Th-Cities area offi- Rickert said. cials and four residents One of the problems the attended the meeting at the county faces is that it doesn't Batavia library control growth, the municipali- Other projects in the plan ties do, said Michael Kirschman include widening routes 47 and of the Geneva Park District. 38 from two to four lanes. St. Charles resident Kathryn Even if the county was able to Trendier said she was con- move forward with all the con- cerned about Route 47 struction needed to alleviate becoming another Randall Road traffic, the Tr-Cities will see commercial corridor. extreme congestion on Route The county will have a meet- 25, Kirk Road, Fabyan Parkway ing regarding the widening of east of the Fox River and Route Fabyan Parkway on Feb. 26 in 31 between Route 64 and Route Batavia, said Batavia City Engi- 38. neer Noel Basquin, who The county's population attended the meeting. should increase by about Residents are encouraged to 150,000 people in the next 20 give the county input on the years. plan. Call (630) 406-7308 or visit "This doesn't look real good," www.co.kane.jl:us/dot.

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a Ci U • C) C C)'S —0 too - a V4S Zll -01 boo E E K2 ° • a-u—Cd &a(ü A County accepts grant to help Aunt Martha's, in a week, presented a paper detailing By Steve Lord the VNA's objections to the two clinics STAFF WRITER being so close. GENEVA - Kane County will ac- The paper said the two would dupli- cept agrantto go toward renovation of cate effort in a small geographic area a downtown Aurora building for Aunt and that it would be fiscally irresponsi- Martha's Youth Services primary care ble because the people being served health clinic. by the clinics live in neighborhoods The County Board Tuesday voted scattered throughout the East Side, 203 to accept the $409,240 grant from not just downtown. the federal Health Resources and Ser- "Our belief isthatwe should distrib- vices Administration. Jtwffl allow Aunt ute the resources, not concentrate Martha's to renovate a building at 101 them," she said. S. Broadway in Aurora to expand its health clinic and move from the cur- Designated grant rent location in the 400 block of Down- The $409,240 for Aunt Martha's is erPlace. health construction grant, specifically The situation also could spell the for use at the South Broadway build- end of a downtown Aurora presence ing. Aunt Martha's officials said it for the Visiting Nurse Association, could not be transferred to another which runs a health clinic about a site. block from the prospective Aunt Marsha Conroy, of Aunt Martha's, Martha's location. said it is "not entirely uncommon for Linnea Windel, VNA chief execu- two health clinics in an unusually tive officer, saidTuesdayVNAofficials needy area to be located next to each still believe the two clinics will be too other." dose, and that could ailS where the This part of Aurora isseen as being VNA looks to expand its operation. particularly needy. With both clinics at Both the VNA clinic and the Aunt full capacity, they reach only about 40 Martha's clinic serve uninsured and percent of the 31,525 people in Aurora underinsured low-income people. the federal government says are ellgi-. 'We've been in downtown Aurora ble for subsidized health care. for many, many years, but when it Officials have, said, if the county comes down to doing what's right for turned down this particular grant, it the community, we will do it" Windel would go back to the federal govern- said. ment VNA officials think the right thing is '1 don't see how it serves the com- for the two clinics to be located in dif munity to turn down $400,000 for a ferent parts of the area the federal gov- health clinic," said County Board ernment has designated as medically member Gerry Jones, D-Aurora. "I underset-ved on Aurora's East Sid. don't see, how, after our federal repre- Wmdel, appearing before County sentatives went to bat for us, we give it Board members for the second time Mack" ,/:c/. @*.V?7I.c'4 Ca Voncon wers making changes to its op en space plan By DAN CHANzrF KaneCount3i chronicle Volunteers needed • :çj CAMPTON Township officials Township officials might seek volunteers to serve on • have anotherabout prOpel-ty try to for the townships think when consider- space properties. • ing hbw to spend their To volunteer, ca Campton money on open space. Township Administrator Julia • the prOperty under con- Glas at (630)377-5705. sideration is about 65. acres and'could be used for pas- sive recreation. in NOvember 2003 for the ld "The property has been 120-acrePoyner property. requested to be put on the . Plans call for apavilion, ten- plan,": .Campton Township. nISCQUttS ball fields, soccer Supervisor . Neal Anderson fields and a walking path: said. 'We can't even talk to •. Other purchases include: the owner until ifs on the . !$6.1 million to buy 243 plan.": :- .. acres that contain the origin Thisteeshae agreed not' of the Blackberry Creek.The to consider land for purchase . land was purchased in unless it.. is listed on the November. 2002 froth township's open space plan. •Shodeen Inc...... Since createdthe 50 $4.3• million for the 220 property open space plan acre Corron Farm. The forest.. -has been amended twice to preserve and township paid -delete one property and add ,:$4 million for 340 acres. The five others. - . state awarded a $2 million On- Tuesday, -trustees grant, and the township and agreed to set apublic hearing forest preserve each paid $2 on the proposed: aniend-. :million. - ...... ment. . - . - .: . •: • $L1:rnilion for 95 acres - The meeting is slated for of the Mongerson Farm, 6:45 p.m. March 9, at the which addedopen space to - - .Campton - Township -Corn- - Garfield Farm. - - . -. .munity Center, 5N062 Old La - Anderson said thb town- Per Road, Wasco. - :.. ship is in negotiations to buy - In . -2001, :,-Campton - - several more properties, but Township residents ap- - he declined to elabqrat e. - proved an $18 million Open- "We are looking at an- space - referendum; which - Other.- 100 acres or so' township officials are spend- -Anderson said. -.ing on land to save it from :: . -Judy Hines, who serves - suburban sprawl. -- - - On the townships open space - About 700 acres have -committee, said work is pro- - been purchased so far, offi, :gressing on what to do with cials said. - - -. - . - each of 'the. properties al. - That land. will be used ready.purchased:- - for public parks, ball fields, . Tnt really. happy with - picnic grounds. -and, open - what: is happening,' Hines space. - : - - - .. - - - said. "We are staffing to do .a - - The most recent buy was strategic plan?

Kane OKs transfer of part of Randall to Northjturpra Proposal gives village control bètweeñ 1-88. and Orchard Road. ..

• ByTOM SCHWETER - Agreementincludes ajdEBJCSCHELlCOPF • • .. Kane Countywill:, KaxeCeuityChronicle • Pay $300,000. GENEVA - The Kane . • Plow snow and mow grass County Boald on Tuesday ap- until 2006, instead of 2008. proved an agreement tOtransfer • Replace bridge deck over control of a 1.6-mile stretch of Interstate 88. ... -Randall Road to NorthAurb.ra. •. •-Won't have to repair dip, in The stretch is between !nter. Randall. state 88 and OithardROadNorth .' Aurora .village trustees already .. . had approved the agreement -, posed for the northwest corner. As part of the agreement; of Randall Road and Oak Street. the county will pay the village Walgreens would be the $300,000 and continue toplow first tenant in the center. snow and mow grass until. 'County board member Ken 2006. A previous agreement Griffin, DAurora, voted infavor that. county officials rejected pf the transfer, but said the next had the c.iuity continuing time a toad is transferred to a those operaionA until 2008. municipality. there -shoul4 be The county also will replace no cost to the county the bridge deck over Interstate "If they want the road, they 88inapproxiflately2016 should take over all costs. In But the countywill not have the future the county shoul4 to pay 190,000 to repair a dip not be responjble for any in the road, which also was part cost," Griffin said.. of the .rejectedgreement.. We came to a fair transfer. .The JnWwould aflOWsev It will benefit. North Aurora eral curb cuts aspartof the new -thd it will benefit the county" agreement, thdudixig a right-in, said William Wyatt, B-Aurora, right-outactess on the west side' .Transportation Committee Of Randall Road, about 1,000 feet chairman. south of CorniskeyAvenile. . The illinois Department of The access would serve the Transportation stifi must ap- 17.5-acre- Randall Commons .prove the agreement before the shopping center . being pro- transfer can take place.

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By Daniel Duggan tt_ STAFF Wflfltfl @) -flI M, .2. GENEVA - Clayton Gill pleaded P. with the Kane County Forest Pre- Sn KI serve Commission to stop the process of condemning a portion of 'a bOt o.t his property. — Gill and his nephew, Matthias also t ' -• -! I vowed to the board members that they do not intend Logo along with • - (Jo a't.Qsi condemnation quietly. "We will litigate this to the end," S2E. .2j& - br-flui -Matthias Gill said. "This was my 0t , 0 bO 't grandfather's property, and I will • - o.o.vi • - Sr been at odds 2000 over a d h 29g runs through o &[fl L- - (0 No n_f-' -o • stretch of land from the Gill family for just $10 a year. That agreement LL! expired in 2000, and the district and o tau0 the family begad negotiations. At one time, the family asked for - as much as $1,500 a month for a new I u auO go lease. The district offered as much as. o $500 a month. The district also of- r E ,1 1 -°r-- fered $300,000 to buy,the property, SrS-S as although the Gill family asked $1.2 I 8IIE1 -a million. - 0iP- - Clayton Gill pointed out that the I forest preserve district has acquired the 53-acre Arthur Andersen parcel €h that surrounds the Gill property. He co wjo told forest preserve commissioners -a;ili!fl 2 Tuesday that it would be far less cost- TQ ly - $90,000 by his estimate - to H I-I -4U"U tT run the path around his property S b04 rather than take it through condem- ' ....oa' 01-S nation. p02 "Leave this to us; this is our prop- erty," he said. "For less money, you can mute around us; C Commission President John ao Hoscheit, R-SL Charles, did not re- spond to the Gills' request during the II! meeting. Alter the meeting, he said a- Uffl the plan had been considered, but it S P was not feasible. The topography there is so steep, we've ruled it out as an alternative," Hoseheit said. "You would also have Ewt Ci to remove a significant number of 10,0111001 oZ* trees, and then you have a slope that -a heads straight down near the river." Clayton Gill, however, rejected • oa 2 bo .E ',0,io that argument and said there are por- -°h •i-Sn_-S tions of the bike path that are a steep- er grade than what is found on the !-fl! property adjacent to his. d !h t In a 19-5 vote last month, the forest Iti 28 preserve commission voted to con- I demn the property. The Gill family was served with the condemnation papers within the last few weeks, Clayton Gill said. -

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By HEATH HIXSON ,^­­ ' KaneCoUnchcIe" • :Si ; cHARLES..: - sedfpa Developers . of a proposed cu,IJ water park on Kirk Road that par' Water park • would attract 300,000 seasonal I s • visitors presented their con- • Continued from page 1 cept plan Tuesday to the plan rnvSt I commission. . .. . ;. JUrhaUsen, ac6nsultaht. But residents in the area • : for thedevelapers, said traffic' of that have questions about the parks Chropkie orapilc by Josh,m Mooninger would produce half, impact . whicki.is produced by Cougars' The Lundmark Group of Two different commercial games and would be accom- Batavia is pitching a 71.5-acre lots are included in the plan; an modated with Division. Street outdoor water, . park at the 11-acre plot' on the parks improvements. northeastern corner 'of Kirk northwest side,: across: the said the park Road and Division Street. The street from the Cumberlarid be open from 10 am. to as late. pan. includes commercial Green Cooperative, and a' 2- • .as 7:3.Op.m. space, but details Of that use re' acre plot on the northeastern • The park is expected to av- main uncertain. corner of Division Street and erage 3,000 visitors each day, The park 'would extend JQflç Road.'' with as many as e,000 visitors north thong Kirk Road. to a But questions about .the • flocking to the park on 'peak point slightly . .: north of proposal are mounting. • daysDevelOPer5 hope to at- Ckthberland . Parkway . in: an Residents ;in the ' area won tract up to 300,000 visitors dur- area currently part of wlinc0r- . .dèr how the 'development • ing the 100-day season. porated Kane County The pro- would affect their quality of • Water use at the park ml--' 'pos.al calls for the area to be an- life: . Traffic, lighting and tiaily would take '1 thilliorigal- H nend into St. Charles. ' :. noise were among the con- ions' fdr . the .I'iniUal fill" each. Randy Whitt, i Lundmark cernà of residents ! the year and Would top 4nW0t Group principal partner,said'meeting: gallons each season. the large water park has been '. " see the 'perfect storm The plan commission took in the works for nearly 12 years ti-&g 'happening," said John no action other thantell devel: and inclüde.s .a Variety ofwater Monicen, who lives on Division opeth'their concerns about the amusements, such as tube Street; "I do see that traffic will proposal because the plan is slides and a wave pool. . ' '' be a situation."... only a concept •."We envision this to be to-. '. .Monken said traffic would Butif developers choose to 'tally family-orientated," .Whitt be problematic on days of Kane move forwatci, theywould face another meeting with the plan said. . 'County Cougars games, St. 'The plan calls for. the water Charles East 'Side,' Sports • eomrnlssionfór afor'mal hear- park to take up to 25 acres,' 20 Complex events and with the ing.'Annexation plariswould 'total acres of parking, .a St waler park' trigger another public hearing. Charles electrical' substation. ' '' ' •. - H arid a detention pond; .' - See WATER PARK, page 2

Voting 'yes Pe nekipe Caineion[R'.Aurora Salaries • Jan 'Carison, R-EI burn. .'. Continued from page 'l ..... •. Jack Cook,. R-Elgih... iP,pcI flra,ickw flSrirnr,'.' Jxi2000 the board, which'' had:.riOt increased its salary ati• Ken'Grittin, [)-Aurora . Ct j • John HOscheit, -St. Charles' Pr - -.Catherine Huribilt; R-EIgin.,. salaries cn. 'Gerald Jon es, 'D-Aurdra • Bob Kudlicki, R-Hampshire - year inSases to. $16,500 ef- •'Janie$ Mitchell,:RNorth: 'fective in:Dedember 2005. Aurora Board members salaries riow ac-_c- li Ct • Rudy, Neuberger, 'DAora. 'standat $15,500.'' . .... •" Dorothy Sanchez1 D-Aurára '"When we *an for Office,, • Margaret Scaltaro,'R-.. o,c people asked us why, and we " CD c (V000;00 CD Carpentersville said 'I choose to 'giVe back,' or cl _____ • Caryl VanOvermeiren, R-St. 'I cioose to serve the con)mu- Cr • Charles •. nitç" said Lee Barrett R-' East rL "• Daniel Walter, RSoum:Elgin' Dufidee, whO voted , aginst "p0 0'-f(o9ffi • Barbara Wojnicki, R-St. the increase. "I'm quite happy gj: C Charles. .H with thysala}3thewa3/itià-" CDtCD eq •:! William Wyatt,R-Auftwa.., Thesday's'vote increases'' '<00, tDg, (D- board members' salaries: to ,<__ p,< C,, Voting 'no' $17,000 on Dec 1, 2006, and e. to $17,500 on Dec. 1,2007.' • Deborâh Allãn,'R-Elghi. John .. ,Noverini, II' Pt! &f,i !. fl, • Lee Barieft;R-East Dundee, Carpentersville, . op- Karen MbCbnnaugh'ay; R- posed the salaryhike; -St. 'Charles : CD0 . ••'. . "Ipprsonally'belleve thj5 <0 'John Noverini, R- is conflict of interest," Carpenterville Noverini said...... • Douglas Weigand, R-atavia' MáCoy said the increase 1 =; ONWO • Donald Wolfe, R-Elgin would. not 'take effect until . '1oi . =hQ m2, after the 2006 elections, mean- Moo Absent ing all 26 sitting members will • Robert McCo naugha, -' have to stanji .foi re-election before the increase kicks in. eneva . . .. "It's only a half-conflict," • Mary Richards, R-Aurbra.: %f • Jackie .Tredup, R-ElgirU "You're voting for aposi- tion,.: not. 'people," ''said s--- CV00 0 :WilliainWyatt,R-Aurora,'Who: 0D 'voted in favor of the increase.' 0 . Thé chaimian's salaryin- crease was appra'.,dwithout I discussion. With the' same Cr c, - cC vote, the county'board . re- 0 5 r moved the $7,500'vice chair- 0 mansalary.,. flistead the vice chair, aq than will be paid per diem, U !i . p CD '.upto'lO times a month. . , In addition to Their' ft C1 salaries, county board mneni —- bers also receive a $30 per them. payment for ever": meeting or county, function, they attend. S Lauzen, will lead state to debt willstrap future geLer4tions gotiated the refinancing of $10 billion of Blagojevich officials bul-den of.paying for spending today.: an estimated $35' billion shortfall in the The lawmakers have introduced leg- state's pension functs She said the large sOy claims unfounded islation designed to 'limit the governor's 'deficit was caused by years of under- ability to boErow money and impose funding by previous administrations..' 'stricter rules on financial maneuvers, The 'state pension funds include H .BY HEATH HD(SON. such as postponing interpst payments for nearly 600,000 retired and current em • -. : Kane county chronicle decades on bonds and length of payout ployees, as well as dependents. The state The plan was introduced Friday, but contributed about $1.8 billion last year AURORA - State Sen. Chris Lauzen lacks a Democratic sponsor. That èduld to the funds. At least' $2.1 billion will be • said studying, at Harvard's business mean that.. the pro- contributed this year, she said. school gave him two thitigs - rugby posalis dead onarrival Carroll said the refinancing lowered teammates and an . understanding of because ' :,Democratic the interest rate owed on that $lçbil- how to Use a ca1cu1atr; .. - 'lawmakers control lion ,by 3.5: percent. She said this re- That's what Lauzen, R-Aurorä, used both legislative cham- stilted in savings of about $7 billion, Wednesday to show how recent state bers. which was used to help futther stabilize borrowing translates into future debt for Blagojevich ad- the pension funds. Illinois residents: ministration 'officials, But Senate Republicans oppose the (The state) borrowed $1,000. t however, called the refinancing because it reversed the period • looks like $1,000 and in actuality what it claims unfounded and of when the state pays its 'interests 'from. is going to cost you is $4,300," Laiizen said there was an at Lauzen sooner until later and extended the matu- said with calculator in hand. tempt to hide .spend- ration period by five years. They said this For those without an Ivy League 'cal- ing , 'by. previous would co'st taxpayers more in the end. :cwator touch, Lauzen was, portraying the Republican governors and legislators that caused the pension funds to be short. 'Carroll said the a delay' in interest amount that his calculator-- using 5 per- payments is needed to pay for govern- cent interest,over 30 years estimates "I think that Republiôan legislators are attempting to rewrite history, ,, ment services while 'also paying down would be the share residents would owe said Becky interest leftover from debt entered into • because of refinancing of $10 billion. Carroll, spokeswoman for the Governor's by former Republican . Gov. George State lawmakers approved the plan Office of Management and Budget "their Ryan's administration. last year to 'shore upstate employee pen- own histor which was filled With fiscally 'Lauzen and other Se'nateRepublican s siori funk irresponsible growth in favor of our pred- also are criticizing Blagojevich for dou- Lauzen and 'other ,Senate 'ecessors' (budgets), that failed to meet the bling the state's general obligation bond Republicans are criticizing the move as state's 'contribution to the pension, fund debt and allowing nobid bond sales that part of a larger borrowing spree by and pay our bills cintfrne.'.' have'contxibuted to higher bond feet than Denlocrafic Gov: Rod Blagojevich that Carroll said the governor's office ne the state has paid in the past.

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By DAN CHANZIT. v-- limit reduè- • Kane County Chronicle ____ don and the ______installation CAMPTON TOWNSHIP ______of a raised —Township officials said the median recent death of a 17-year-old K a n e St! Charles girl illustrates the C o u n t y need for safety , improve- Sheriff Ken ments on Randall Road. ______Ramsey has This week, trustees voted o rd-er e d 4-0 in support of Kane Joos more depu- County's effort to.. increase - ties to issue safety' along a_ stretch of tickets to speedrs on Randall Road north, of Red Randall Road. - Haw Lane andouth of Silver -Also, speed trailers will Glen Road.. S." .- 'collect traffic data to deter- -"Campton Township is mine trends. the residence for hundreds The speed limit on the of familiesfamilies who have chil- curve is 55 mph, but Ramsey dren who attend (St,Charles) ' said a study of tickets issued North High School and Wild -shows that speeders; on av- Rose fl (Elementary). School,' erage, travel 14 mph over the the resolution reads in part, limit. "The safety and well-being of., The safety debate was fu- Campton Township resi- eled by former 'St. Chailes dents are a. primary con- School BOard member Steve cern." - .. Cole, who addressed the - Trustees, debatedKane County Board in whether to Write 'a' letter to - Decembet county officials or to support - Since then, the Kane a resolution instead" .At issue County Department of was Randall Road's location, Transportation has con - which is several miles east of ducted a study- the township's border. The 'county's transporta-' ''Jt's our ' kids who are tion committee has , apL driving that 'road," trustee proved plans to install warn 'Rich Manser said., , ing signs: - On Nov. 4, 2003, North . A second phase involves High - 'School senior raising the median. 'Samanthajoos, 17, died after Kane County Board her car crossed the center member Barb WOjnicki, RSt. line during a rainstorm. Charles, said a large median The accident happened and road-widening project along the S-curve south of 'would be tOo expensive to Red.Gate Road. . , implement. Joos lived in Arbor Creek, Rather, county officials a Campton Township subdi-' likely would favor a narrow vision. ' , raised median, saidWojnicki, Her death sparked a whose district' includes. county debate over Randall .CarnptonTownship. Road safety improvements, ' Coll tributing: - Ton which could include a speed . Schlueter .. -

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ByTOM SCHLUTER On the Net Kane County Chronicle • For information on the rch 16 primary election, I: . . GENEVA —medyisthe N1a U last day to register to vote in inclu ing a list of . . the March 16 primafy : candidates : County Clerk John and refereft Cunningham said residèntsdo dums, where not have to declare party affili- to register,. 'Yb ation at the time theregister. a list of . .. where to register. A voter is considered to polling places Régistef to vote register as a Republican or, and requests for Democrat when they vote in a abenteb ballots, seethe Continued from page 1- Kane County Clerks Office , County..... general primary and:request county clerk's Web.siteat Absentee voting begins Building B, one .or the other party's ballot. . http://www.co:kane.il.us.. Feb. 23. BallOts can be cast at Governmcnt Center.. "In Illinois, you don't have •.. the clerks Office and most 719$. Batavia Ave., Geneva • to declare your partyuntilyou :., . municipal and township of--. pull ,a ballot," Cunninghamnames, byrarriage or other- • Secretaryof state driver fices...... • said. . 'wide, must re-register m per-. Spring primary contests facilihes . Voters will select their son. Also, those who have typically have lower voter 339 E Indian Trail Road party's nominees to run in the . moved into Kane.Countyfrom turnout than November gen-. AUrora, IL 60505 • : Nov. .2 general election far. another countymustreregis- eral electiOhs. I H ' . . • bounty board, state's attorney, tër in person. At 34.32 percent, the 595 S. State St. • recorder, auditor, circuit clerk, Those who have moved to :March 19,-2002,prhnay had Elgin, IL 60123 coroner and 13 .even-nurn- a different. address within the third-highest turnout in -, . :. - bëred county board seats. Kane County can use the the previous -20- years, 1280 Powis Road passed only b theMaich 17, West Chicagb, IL.60185--. The parties' nominees-for change of address forth c i he . state representatives,IJ.S. rep- back of theft registration card 1992, turnout of 47.09 percent . . . resentative, U.S. senator and and mail itin. and the March 15, 1988, Public libraries president will be chosen. Director of elections Joan turi outof43.9Perce -H • Municipal office As 9f Jan. 15, there were Township • offices- -; ,Referendums, such as the Rennie said people can regis- 179,440. registered voters ...... Geneva school district's .e- ter at the clerk's office-during the cOünty, which is down. ....- quests for $48.9 million for a regular business hour be- from 29,721 in March 2902, beth alsoserves as deputy: new middle school and an in- tween 830 am. and 4:30 p.m. however, it still is the second- kegistrars. I • crease in the fund Monday throughPridày.:will highest total in the county's To learnwhd your precinct from $3.OSto$3.43 per $l000f The clerks office be history. : . committeeman .is, or for any assessed valuation, will ap- open frp'm9. am. to 1 p.m. By cothparison. ththe 2000 other questions, call the Clerks .pear on the ballot Saturday to accommodate presidential election saw, a office at (630) 232-5990. - To be eligible to vote, a voter registration. - 68,62 percent turnout. . . The county clerk'sweb site person must bea citizen ofthe To register, bring two A1l:totals exclude. the-city contains a list of candidates . falls . under . aM referendums,, -where to United States, 18 years Old by forths of identification, one of of Aurora which Polling places March IS and be a resident of which should carry current the jurisdiction Of tfiqAurora[register, a list 'if • . the precinct for 30 days before addrSs, she said:: Election Commission. : and requests for absentee bál- Cunningham said many lots. The. Web... site 4s the election. . .. - . o;i.ils Anyone who has changed See REGISTER, page 2 - .preciict committee me.., in hit p:11w Kane finds'...' surplus of $3.5 million .• Happy choice: Roads and other capital projects are likely places to spend

By Steve tonI JJf?tU 5 STAFF WRITER GENEVA - Kane County Board members are facing the pleasant - and unusual - currently has about $14 Million,' choice of how to spend a budget surplus. he said. About $12 million of that With near final figures in, finance officials KANE. came originally from the believe the 2003 budget year had a surplus of From page Al Enterprise Fund, and has been $3.5 million'to $4 million. That money is what's earmarked for a jail project left over from revenues collected after which is for prisoners sent to The county has many pending.. budgeted money is spent other county jails, $482,506. transportation projects, almost "We underestimated revenues," board Pattelli said despite the overall $50 million worth. Putting $2 Chairman Mike McCoy said Wednesday. "It's surplus of revenue, the overages million there may not seem like like found money." much, but McCoy said it should The surplus in part comes thanks to the in different budgets is cause for concern. go toward changes on Randall huge number of mortgage refinancings during "The amount over budget Road in St Charles. Those 2003 because of low interest rates. Those seems to be growing, she said. changes have been suggested by refinancings were all recorded as real estate "It's much greater than in the residents and board members for transactions with the county's recorder's office. concerned safety reasons, and a variety of The revenue surplus in the recorder's office past, which is what rm about" options have been suggested by alone was more than $2.5 million, said Finance transportation officials; Officer Cheryl Pattelli. 'Good financial shape' McCoy said he likes spending Other offices also brought in more revenue Members 'of the County Board some of the money on roads,. 'thanékpected.Sdifiè'bf the bigger ones were Budget and Finance Committee because the county, already puts the state's attorney's office, which brought in Wednesday agreed they must so much money toward the courts 8691,9.60 more than expected, the county's keep an eye on the budget and judicial system.. development office, which brought in $291787 overages. But committee "There are a lot of people who more, the circuit clerk's office, which brought Chairman Doug Weigand, R- never have a single thing to do in $392,057 more, and the sheriffs office, which Batavia, said the fact the county with the courts," he said. "That's a brought in $131,470 more. was able to absorb overages and way to spend some money on • All revenue collected in specific offices goes them, too." into the county's general fund. It is from that still have.a surplus shows the county is "in good financial The county also could roll over one pool of money that the county's different the surplus into the general fund, offices are funded. That is how a given office shape." keeping it as part of the fund cancollect more revenue than expected but "Some say the sky is falling, but we held the line," he said: balance, but McCoy said puffing still be over its budget McCoy said he is most likely to one-time additional money into For instance, while the sheriff's office recommend that the surplus operating costs "leads you down a brought in more revenue than expected, it still per path." Keeping the ended up a little more than $1 million over money be divided, with half of it going to the Department of money in the general fund would budget The other sheriffs office budget,:for Transportation, and the other half • be against county financial policy, adult àorreclions, was $754,397 over budget. to the capital projects fund. which is to balance the budget Among the other large budget overages each year. were: the circuit clerk's office, $106,489 over The capital projects fund budget the state's attorney's office, $266,316 over; the corrections board and care budget, + Turn to KANE, Az

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D, PO- Y Steve Lord B STAFF WRITER Board members last year gave I and final approval to the Kane County GENEVA - There will be Veteran's me Forth a new hon th morial, which will .P.M. Parking lot in front ore 792 Kane County resi- County Government Centerof the here. Kane dents who lost their lives in seven sday 20th century Conflicts ck of The County Board this week ap- flicts Those con- a po- Proved construction a17-spaceinclude War,: th e Sp War,, World War ani shAmezjcan ked lot that will provide pg for I World War II, ted new Kane County Ve the the Korean War, the Vietnam War hal, due Memo-to bethe Persian dedica Gulf , et at her. The lot also will ted in Novem. War. War and the Cold parki provide more The memo ng closer to Building Aol rial also will provide Government Center, the education with facts about the seven conflicts The roughly $220,000 lot will be national Pfrom both the county and located in front of the current lot at place of solitudeerspective and reflection and provide a Building A, to the north of the . vas memorial, which is being built into Officials are aiming the s to have the ide outh end of the front lawn, next memorial designed and built by St ear to a grove of pine tree s Charles Sculptor Guy Bellaver fin- The lot will be made of d. Interlock ishe.J by Nov. 11, Veterm's Day. on Pay The memorial will be based as - use ers,mortar, a special brick that does not around a monument to the citizen ra. manufacturedd in Auro- soldier, ra which Mill be eightfee high The new lot also will not be part forand his feature helmet, a man in uniform except he of the one-way traffic pattern at the can flag. unfurling an Amen- ye Government Center, which will make it easy for People g The County Board has allocated . . and 6400,00o outofthememonaltogetin and out from riverboat funds to te of the center, cover about half the cost of the Officials memorial McCoy has said the. 3, front said landscaping at the county can incorporate the other new of the lot, combined With the $400,000 this year. 1- memorial,will change the look Kane County's veteran's organi. substantially.of the center from Batavia Avenue zations already have contributed $10,000 toward the menioi-jnj

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home.the ordinary This wasto the nothing sisters, out who of Alvah Morical stands In his chauffeurs uniform In a bay of the Fabyan garage along Route 31 In Geneva, circa I 930.The building Bruce served as Morical's place of employment as well as his family's home from the late-l9205 until the midl930s.just north of their Moncal,along with romped their brother.and played oh coach house on the Fabyan estate, the Morical children (from left) Jo. 10, Barbara, 4, and Bruce, 6, pose for a photograph. the 300-acre estate of their )m, dining room, a "big Hedrick said. father's employer, millionaire i

Our Opinion Death, taxies, garbage In addition to death and taxes, there is a third Presené District land were dosed up after they certamty in life — garbage From animal bones in filled up; no provision was made for any more. I piehistoricTcaves to the garbage dumps of And if the wind is right, a driver on Kirk Road or I Roman cities human habitation always means a fan at a Cougars game knows - through his nose - why Settler's Hill's neighbors look for- grbage. F As we reported last week, the days of the envi- ward to its closing date. .. ronmentally unfriendly local "city dunip". are Although the landfill may be going extinct in long gone. The only operating landfill left in Dufage and Kane, its little cousin, the trash DuPage and Kane counties, Settlers Hill in transfer station, is proliferating. Right now the j Geneva, is scheduled to shut down at the end of DuKane station in West Chicago is the only one in the area More are needed. Proposals have 2006; Settler's Hill takes in garbage from DuPage been made for a new transfer station in Batavia and a pro- I C towns served by Waste Management, Inc. and a second station in West Chicago; . Garbage from other towns in DuPage and Kane, posal is expected in Carol Stream. . . served by Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc. or The aroma zone around transfer stations may Onyx Waste Servjces, Inc., makes its way to the be less than around landfills, since garbage is i DuKarte transfer station in West Chicago, then kept indoors. But trade-offs include heavy truck . hits the road in truck trailers for landfills about traffic around stations, more big trucks on the 75 miles away in Dixon or Davis Junction, near jnterstates, higher transportation costs and, very I .. . - Rockford. soon, more locations. DuPage and Kane. export garbage because The sad facts are that nobody wants to live I nobody wants to live or work near a new landfill. near a landfill or a transfer station, but we all In DuPage, three landfills located on Forest generate trash.

Pvace__D a%—.. - 7.-. County, library 'agree on -sale of former school buiI3ing By Rita Hoover - 'P 04 value of the property to be.about $1 mil- Staff writer lion. - With Geneva's current 27,60G-square- The Geneva Public Library District foot library building at 127 James St. near- secured one of the last remaining available ing full capacity and predictions that the pieces of downtown property, giving it a city's population may double' size with- chance to remain in the downtown area in the next 10 to 15 years, library officials when future expansion is necessary. have been keeping an eye on the future. - .The Kane County - Board Feb. 10 The library conducted a survey last year approved the $1.03 million sale of county- that revealed patrons favor keeping the owned property at the former Sixth Street library in downtown Geneva. But the School building, 210 S. Sixth St., to the James Street site is landlocked, making Library - District. The county's Executive expansion there impossible. Committee recommended the sale Feb. 4. According to Jeanne Hintz, Geneva The 2-acre Sixth Street property has Library director, the purchase of the Sixth served various purposes since the Library Street property is a first step and library District originally purchased it from officials will continue to utilize the current Geneva Community,unit School District facility as long as possible, she said. - 304 in 1980 for a reported $240,000. The "There are still a lot of things to be con- Library District sold it two years later to sidered," Hintz added. the county . for $252,000. However, the She said space at the current facility has library retained the right of fist refusal for not become "critical" yet. But the pinch is- any future sale of the property. beginning to be felt - The building had been the home of the "We know it's coming. Some people Kane County Health Department until the don't realize the space crunch, for the chil- department moved to its new Aurora loca- dren's department," shesaid, especially tion in July 2003. The 25,000-square-foot during summer youth programs. building now houses just one tenant - the Hintz said one of the library's goals in Kane County Regional Office of the near future is to bring in a consultant to Education, which would eventually be "help us best use the space we have." moved to a new location. Updating the former Sixth Street School Last September, county officials deemed building has been deemed too costly and the building too costly to renovate or library officials have said they would - remodel- and - recommended it be put up demolish it when the sale is finalized The for sale. The issue was again raised at the Library District is reportedly debt-free and Nov. 25 Kane County Board meeting, a referendum to purchase the property where results of an appraisal showed the would not be required. a -

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Page I Cnronicu- __ 131 What's mine is whose? One of my favonte John Kennedy may remove a tree from their land quotes came when he referred to Nikita Although the ordinance in its present form Khrushchev's world view. Khrushchev saw is not nearly as intrusive as the original- things, said Kennedy, as "What's mine is draft, it still should raise concerns mine, what's yours is negotiable' I thought The ordinance would require property of that statement this week as I've followed owners who wish to remove trees in order two very different stones with the same to facilitate construction to get more common theme of property nghts permits and of course, pay more fees The • The first concerns a small bit of land on object 'say proponen% is to prevent. • the riverfront that has been a point of certain types oltrees (old growth or • ., .contention for years. The lotis onlyabout 1 , specific species for instance) from being acre, but it includes a short stretch that cut down Another stated goal of those runs next to the river and has long been pushing this measure is to educate • part of the Fox Itiver bike hail. It is also . property.owneS about trees, ,but it's not • property that has been owned by the Gill ., dear how that is to be accomplished. family for decades.If the Kane County .' : : As noble as it isto want to preserve Forest Preserv District has its way that trees, there are several disturbing aspectse may change..••.• ' . to this ordinance. First, frankly, is the idea In 1987, the Gills, for a nominal fee of that what happens to atree on my property is anyone elses business Ifitis $10 ayear, leased the bike path portion of , their land to the district. When thatmy house, garage, yard and garden, then agreement ran out in 2002, the family . -guess what? It's my tree, too. offered new lease, this time àt$1;500 a . Another problem can be phrased as month. The district balked at the price and "Says who?" Just who is going to be passing since then both parties have been judgment on you and your plans for-your • embroiled in-an ongoingbattle that has. trees? Allowing agroup of non- elected • includedthe path beingbarricade'd and . . busybodies to make decisions about your legal action from all sides...... property is probably not what many of you The district upped the ante last week view as good government.'. ..when itffledacondemiiationslfltonthe The.. next thing.tobeworried about is • property. Essentially, the district seeks to '.. sirnple:What's next? If you allow a seize the property from the family— and commission to dictate what you do with at a price far lower than what the Gill's.feel' - yOur trees, what's to say tomorrow doesn't it is worth. The GilFsvowto fight the bring the lawn and garden police who'll district's move and I hope they prevail "educate" you about what you should and The Gill's showed themselves to be - . shouldn't grow. Do you suppose they'll, generous citizensfor rnany'ears and even have a fee, schedule, too? Say, $5 for today -allow peo'plëto, literally, trespass on: growing tomatoes because "We" approve of cultivate lima theirr-property They are entitled to eithet a tomatoes, but $100 if you .fair lease for access to their land orbest . beansbecause."We" don't? .- value for the entire lot. However, Selling or - 'This is not the benign ordinance leasing the land should be their decision.. backers would have you believe. It is thefl - I rnment poking its nose where it - - - and no one else's The distriCt is attempting gove -. what is often calle4a land grab. Wheth&: .doesntbelong. - -.',- - - done with a lawsuit or a shotgun it smacks Both Genevas tree ordinance and the of theft. - ...... - KaneCountyFoie5tPreserVeDistricts The landm question is bemg referred actions are assaults on on of our most to in the pres's and legal proceedings as treasured beliefs. You recall it, don't you? Ifs . "The Gill Piopèrty," and for the best-of- the one that says something about home reasons it's -theirs. This is thore' than .añ being castle. If these two governmental .- - argument over how ttuth a-lot of land is actions are any indication, that notion is not long for our society worth, it isa challenge to the rights of all t. CharleEta • ,property owners in Kane County. - - H-. .- • Bill Page lives in S - Another challenge may come m writesabqutloCalissuesofl.TUeS - .. Thursday. Calls and e-mails ans, . Geneva, where a proposed ordinance niay (630) 534-0809 or wpage@mediawerks org dictate to property owners whether they

Oh ron! CtQ. A step forward lb the Editor: On Jan. 23, the Kane County lhnsportation Department met with the transportation issues on Randall Road in the portion north of Red Haw Lane to Silver Glen Road. This area includes the infamous "5' curve where a St. Charles student was killed two months ago. The discussion centered around three areas: the sheriff department's responsibility in enforcing speed limits, changes to the -S- curve including*amlng signs, barriers, etc., and speed limit changes. There was no discussion on the key issue of road access at Crane and Bulcom roads where C'3 'Cfltfl - CO Ltto ouj0-'fl motorists have to "guess' at car fl speeds and weave into Randall -, Road in order to cross. This - • hopefultywill be discussed at future meetings. U, The meeting participants all

S. speed limits that can be exceeded 0 by over 20 mph. Both the sheriff ceo.0 and the transportation department recommended a reduction in the speed limit. The county committee did not act on it eö a a reduction in speed limit, opting a to wait until the plab is completed an , Zt' before determining what the g speed limits should be. a Pressure must be maintained t8° 3 i hilIfi- 111 to follow the recommendation of . the sheriff and the transportation department to reduce speed 2b0tYRJ> u0 limits. Comparable roads to ',-, 0t Randall which are less congested U and less dangerous, are 45 mph. 6' For example, Kirk Road, which is :ceilt controlled by Kane County; Route t3 IE°2' Ctj 0E . 59 from Route 64 to 1-90, which is L14 tObOJ controlled by IDOt and Stearns Road, east of Route 25, which Is 15 u inuhiUi controlled by DuPage County; are !J 000-

all 45 mph. ard has been - better enforce existing seed limits. U The key will be ongoing execution of this conuninnent The IQd il. professionals believe that even an enforced 55 mph is still too high a!fh and should be lowered. Our elected county board members a t itL should make that a reality. Ct ,L j8 Stiphen D. Cole SL Charles it2 -

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. endorsements Iig0 ii 92 J. B y PATRICK WALDRON - t - 9,- • II Cl) 't DaiyHndd Staff Wt C GM Decades worth of top prose- li - '4 - cutorial experience and law H rA-- enforcement leadership lined up behind Kane County state's Us • attorney candidate John • Barsanti Wednesday, endorsing 00 ONEMd 0 ' him as the lawyer with the best 0 — ';I Ca - a- background for the, job: ' "The key word here is experi- ence' said GaryV. Johnson, who f\ -. -qh served as state's attorney from' .

1988 to 1992. •a '25 Johnson's endorsement was CD -.. in line with nods from former o<-o 9E © 0 0 , Kane- County state's attorneys ti Robert Casey, Robert Morrow PEP Va[ • and David Akemann. •! 1 • Morrow, Johnson and Casey O' t'2) Ca • :g o - CD are serving as Barsanti's cat- M ai on • paign chairmen. • Barsanti of St. Charles is run- ning against three other lawyers 0 EI Michael Leuer of St. Charles - fl a o00co fl and Tim O'Neil and Joe Rago, °ao.po • -both of Geneva seeking the 0l0* •Pc RepUblican nomination on 89E,o March-16.-- au The primary winner will face E tgo ds Anrorá Democrat Benèe Robin- 000rr;g •

son in the NoVember election -. for the right to succeed incum- cooSa bent Meg Gorecki. Gorecki, who - 0 is now serving a four-month t 0 'm '0 suspension of her law license, is 0 u not seeking re-election She defeated Akemann in 2000. Beyond legal colleagues, Barsanti, who served as an ra. © •a0 • assistant under five state's attor- C, neys before Goredki, 'lOCDs announced endorsements from three area police chiefs and six '-'"0-0 police officer groups. c. on "He's an honest individual," said East Dundee Chief Joe Pena. 'He'll do the right tbing.' - Kane County Forest Preserve Police Chief Chuck Budde and Hampshire Police Chief Tom Atchenson also offered endorse- ments, as did officer groups from St. Charles, Batavia, Car- F pentersville, Gilberts, South g Elgin and the Kane County sheriff's office. - V Barsanti said he was honored to have the support of so many law enforcement agencies. "These are the people the state's attorney is going to be working with the next four years," he said. "I am very pleased these guys • are here."

Aunt, MarysStOtYbO!!S P r Qled èOmin to Kane County: ian H LOfli C 1993 as awayto 10 give incarcerated mothers E program helps more contact with their chil- b F' then.. supported by grants keep mothers and donations from private i ndividuals it has inspied H more children in tOUCh. • similar proms E than20 otherAunt states. Mary's a ..Soo otherGENEVA goes to Prison,When. usually Storybook pro 3ect' lbe avail- M the Kane County Jail. t is her children who suffer able Withat the help of a trained al irnprisOn most.merit, Matern affects future genera volunteer, the incarcerat I tions because cbildre s psy- ed morn chooses a hook that chological health and sense of is age appropriate for each of I family is severey damaged by her children: the mother l c the separation from their thenmessage audiotapes as well asa personal the read- hil- .' mothers.About.. 25,000 children in ing of the booksbooks for and her tapes c separated from then. children The by the Illinois are to f the 1 their mothers each year be- volunteerare sent the on be o

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C, 1 a'cTuP 0bt1:00 oa EsO ) 2. -o - 0 0. EU 64—C 0, 0 t'b ft c.J Held acëountable 1fl • nUh—o: —tEc e- the Shame16th Judicial on the CourtKane County for allowing Board Megand UQL CD. j-Gorecki to keep allher job after her recent 00 0 CD a B misconduct. We make mistakes in our cJ - all C I countable,lives and asespecially adults, we Elédtèd must officials. be held It'sac- EE- CO 0CD Y time Gorecki face her mistake like any ! a;rp i the rest of us hard-working people of Kane It ; DortP county. She must resign and show integrity 2 0 and respect to the people of Kane County ? CD a. E' 02. - CD who elected her. Anything else would be ?.t - Wo 0 D 0 unacceptable! Won't be paid O0IiU•lisa If! have to read one more story about p g,0 °- fli 1kpfj1j Meg Goiecki and her little slap-on-the-wrist punishment, I will scream. We had to hear CDC, her whine for four long years, and then she gets this nothing suspension. Thumbs up to od 81 8 :J B some of the Kane County Board members for having the guts to vote a vacancy. The 0 IrpjtriE3 r,e only admirable thing I can say is that she at declined to be paid while on suspension. CD 0 a Maybe there is a conscience in there after L< ° k- flflE• - ° at$ all. -"C, ii ('0 Only four months 0 I'm so glad that Meg GoreOki only got four months. She wasn't the one that should El 0 Ir 0a- have been punished. It was the ones asking CL ' for the special favors. - 9iCC/ -t&J to your lon terni care needs, I tE8o" '1 g ? CD L

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I itainment kME COUNTY CHRONICLE I Faces b. "I've led a charmed life, so it's Continued from page 1 my responsibility to be out there helping others" A place for children Relieved of business obligations, - gess plunged into communitycommunity work Lindsey Burgess a Shejoined the Junior League of Kane Community volunteer and DuPage Counties1 a philanthropic orgahiation devoted to aiding children at.risk jn the communify;She .helped :. Geneva High School students. We will tutor at Glenwood School for Boys and give $12,000 in continuing education supported the choo1's Game Nights scholarships this year to the children at Elgin : The club hosts two major fund- She al raisers each year. In the fall, there is a Rt1 Crisis Center L8I Recently, the league helped establish craft show Burgess was in charge of the a children's waiting room at the Kane bake sale at the show this year. County Judicial Center In the spring, the club puts on a 'There was no place for the children, fashion show Tins year, the event, so they Were brought into the courtroom' "Spring Into Giving," will be at Eagle with their parents,' Burgess said. Brook Country Club on April 25 1 Imagine watchmg your parents go Fashions will be byKanzma and through a divorte in court, or watching • Zlriiii5...... your father beingtaldñg àwaytojâiL The Other club projects include ringing parents aren't here fQrjust traffic court bells for the SalvatioriArmy at ...... : .Christmàstimè and collecting food twice •_____ -7 they're here for bad stuff. "It is amazing that this could be a year for local food pantries happenmg in today's world We're not I. talking about one child a'*eek; we're . . : Family time .• IS photo talking about up to 20 children .a day" Burgess' son, Bradley, 6, is in first pro- wl-ien the league learned about the grade at Coultrap School this year, and Sad situation, its members were anxious to she is getting involved with the PTO She helpbuild a place for.childreti to stay is home room mother for Bradley's class. while their parents are in court Lauren, 4, is in preschool at ated "The people in the courthouse and Kensington School rically ::the bar association have beenttying to : When time.allows, the family enjoys tg to get this done for years," Burgess said bike rides. It's taken foul years to accomplish it, They also love the Fox River, as but now the room is there, and the evidenced by the home they recently children are using it." ...... built. When they first came to Geneva, I Space was found, and the league they purchased a small older home on a contributed $20,000for the projØ. .. lovely river lot. After a nurnbeofyéars,... Members also painted and furnished it they tore the house down and built their so m timefor its Jan 5 opengm current home which they moved into tb. : Burgess is now in charge of collecting last May. . . d. ...books from the community foE the . Hs"Everyminute of everyday is full; but room. Each child receives abàok as- there is a special satisfaction in getting ome he/she leaves involved with philanthropic activities,' • "At first,, we tried to obtain new . Burgess said. ted books from the community, but we need It makes you feel good, you make the so many, we are now collecting gently friends, you help the children who need used books,!' Burgesssaid. "Schools i most...... often have book drives; and.men*ers of "There are children who need help d . . the community are always calling me to right here in our con puIiitt My heart • give me books:" . : goes out to these kids; Little moments isley can beirery. ... touching. . -HlikeWheflIwas • ...... munityHelping the com reading to the children at the Elgin uurn . Another group dear to Burgess' heart Crisis Centerandthis. little boy just my is the Geneva Mother'g Club. . . came over and hopped into my lap. hes • . "We raise money to distribute among . "It's so stimulating to be at a meeting ha' many community charities," she said. and listen to what some women are "We give a little money iii alOt of places.. doing. You realizehow much you can do tat. If• there isLa need when someone issick and what a difference you can make." or someone dies in the community, we -. . . . of help out. We've supported Glen*ood. . Ifyott know someone who should be n School for BoyslandLazarus House, featured in Kane County Faces, send your gh it' among others...... story idea to GaiiJardihe do Lifestyles, e : , ...."One of our major programs is. ::...... 1000RandaiLRoad; Geneva, IL 60134 or awarding college scholarshi ps for . e-nidil lifestyles @kcchronicle.com ;

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ByTOMSCHLUETfl staff time," :Coroner Chuck KanècoUntcleyChrOfli West said. •: • '• Finance Committee Chair- GENEVA Kane - The )man Douglas Weigand sai4 County Coroner's office will go step toward' . automatipn•. paperless May 1 after'an'auto- often do not save money and. -. mated' dt3base system re- sometimes end. upbeing more ceived a positive reviewEriday costly th the processes they frotrithe Executive Committee replaced. Because the, program's The ability to prove a cost only cost will be monthly savings. $11 help the compa-. wireless service chages that riles sell the program-to other will be absorbed in the coro- agencies,ino Gum said. ner's Annual budget, no vote Because of;that, proof of was needed for a group of pri- the labor cost savings will be - vate technology flrmstobegin documented ifl press releases, Paperless 1 setting up an automated data streaming video and on dweb Continued from page base system for the offide itS,she said:: Monday. The first year, the only cost Docuthents that the Kim Gumino, senior ac- to the county will be $2,160 for cdronerrnukt fill out at the' count executive for CDW-G, the nine monthsfor six wireless time of death include death government arm of Computer cards that will transmit data to scene investigation reports, Discount Warehouse, said there the office. toxicology reports, patholo-. is not an automated database Costs the second and third gist reports, reports of death. for a coroner's office anywhere 'years will be $9,730 for each tösultiñg from . fatal -car in . . the country. CDW-G,. year, which: includes $2880. crashes, a list of personal ef- Business Systems Engineering, for 12 months of wireless serv- fdcts, thedication and phar lit, Toshiba and Sprint develr ice and. $6,850 for mainte- rñaceutical inventory, death certiflcaes, burial certt- opedt'iedatabath.., •nance: The companies will pro- The coroner's office will cateá and crematory certifi- cates. ' . .. vide hardware and software receivethe six laptop corn- County officials will de- valued at $94,000 to the 'puters. Also, 'the, county re- tide in a year or two whether countyanocost; The cOmPa. ceives six Logitech pens that to expand the paerless con- nies beneflt.by heing able to cbntaM cameras and central cept to other departments show other govemmentagt1 processing units that record such as transportation: and des and private firms how the what has been written and; she database operates. - can be downloaded to he .Gumind said did not The coroner's office will database.:- • know how much It Would benefitbecaujeitwilibe able The county will keep the cost to outfit thostdepart- to fill out one form that will hardware even if it drops out -merits with the technology. thigrate to the 23 different of the program, Gumiflo said. ' Each department's program fotrriithat must be completed The -hardWare 'alone will • -would have to be figured in- when someone dies ' provide a- savings .. to the dividually because of-the Currently, the irivestgat- county because the office was: different services they pro.-. ing deputy must fill out each scheduled to. receive new vide' and thé yiumber,of em-. form individually. ., desktop computers this year. ployees; - "That in and of itself will -. . save a tremendous amount of See PAPEELESSJ page 2 Weisñèr d rids timing of resignation and outreach, has been criticized by his Monday. "I think what we find is that S During water cilsw Call opponents for jumping ship during an (the call center) was one of the bright emergency. The Customer Service spots in the problems that arose last center was running well, Center, which runs the 264-INFO line week." mayoral candidate says that took thousands of calls after the boil The other mayoral candidates have order was issued, is within Weisner's tried to turnWeisner's decision into a department but has its own manager. political advantage, accusing him of By Dave Parro Weisner said he worked with call abandoning the city during a time of STAFF WRITER - center manager Cecilia Soto the first day need, regardless of whether he left a of the boil order and through the first capable manager in charge. AURORA Mayoral candidate Tom "It doesn't erase the fact that he is her Weisner is defending his decision to weekend to establish emergency Mayoral candi- resign from City Hall during the water- operations, but Soto managed the center boss," said candidate Bill Wyatt, echoing date Tom Weis- from that point on with very capable staff statements made by fellow mayoral boil crisis, saying he left oversight of the contenders Richard Irvin and Angel ner says his deci- city's customer-service center in good members under her; sion to leave the hands after the initial flood of calls "I didn't leave my position in such a Hernandez. "He quit at a time when the way to leave that part of the city city had nothing subsided. city was on alert." to do with the re- Weisner, who left his job Thursday as operations that I dealt with in any sort of + Turn to WEISNER, fl cent bolt order. Aurora's director of community services hindered condition," Weisner said

public and coordinating with other call centers. WESNER The Customer Service Division From pageAl. should not have been expected to contact aldermen about the Weisner dismissed his situation,he said. opponents' criticism, saying they "Let me say quite clearly that, would find a way to speculate on his while I think it is important that resignation whether it happened aldermen be kept informed during last week or sometime in the future. situations like the one we Weisner said he always had Planned experienced Friday, that simply to step down at some point and could not be one of my functions, focus on his campaign for mayor in nor will it be in the future," Weisner spring 2005. wrote in the Feb. 10 e-mail, which "I will leave the negative was obtained Monday through the speculation.tO my opponents, Aldermen's Office. because I want to get my positive The memo apparently further message to the public," Weisner said. strained a relationship between Mayor David Stover and Weisner E-mail toatdetmeni that had been growing tense as In an e-mail written to aldermen Weisner started to become serious two days before his departure, about his run for office. Weisner defended himself from was apparent that conflict accusations that he did not call the would develop as Tom's vision for aldermen to let them know about the city may have differed with the water contamination. Some Mayor Stover's, and it apparently council members felt they were not came to a head," said Alderman contacted quickly enough. Chris Beykirch, 8th Ward. "It's Weisner wrote that he had the obvious that there's a growing rift responsibility to "optimize the city's between Tom and the mayor." ability to take calls from the public" • Weisner said the letter was and construct messages to place on simply an e-mail to aldermen cable Channel 10 and the city's Web explaining a situation and site; During the first weekend of the responding to a question. boil order, the city answered Stover said he could not between 11,000 and 12,000 calls at comment on personnel issues. various locations. "Unfortunately, I am at a Throughout that first weekend, disadvantage" the mayor said in a Weisner said he-was helping to statement. "Due to privacy laws, I schedule volunteer call-takers, am unable to discuss Mr. Weisner's updating information to give to the work record or work performance." renew., IA' IA e Error. frees. cooperation brings pow r to people . CornEd has decided to back off on a proposal to install a high-voltage power line, with all of 2nd inmate S its 80- to 120-foot towers, along Randall Road after several area communities and private citizens at Kane jail objected. A new plan would extend present lines to get power where it is needed. Me utility will host an Associated Press An inmate in the Kane open house later this month to explain the new pro- County Jail has been mistak- posal. We give a THUMBS UP to CornEd for listening enly released, the second time to people's concerns and responding in a coopera- such an error has happened in a month and the fifth time in tive manner. four years, authorities said. "I am truly outraged and embarrassed at the lapses in ire judgment of my officers," Sheriff Ken Ramsey said dur- ing a news conference Satur- day. While Ramsey said he will "not rest until this problem is rectified," he said the problem is exacerbated by. jail over- crowding, understaffing and a lack of fundiñ. Movie night t3eaWfl !?&e&S Marceah Spikener, 35, of Au- rora mistakenly was set frec The past few Tuesday nights Bill Wyatt around 5 an Friday, and au has sponsored Classic Movie Night at the thorities didn't realize thc Paramount Theatre, and it was absolutely mistake until 12 hours later.. fabulous. I can't tell you how much fun my • Ranisey said Spikener jailed for violation of proba daughter and I have had by watching those tion on a drug charge, was nol movies. It's just so much fun, and I hope he a threat to the public and ap gets elected mayor of Aurora. peared on her own for a sched ' uled court date Friday, wherE Eileen McNeWus, Oswego a judge officially released her Sheriff's deputies did no realize she had gone to corn- and apprehended her in down town Aurora late Friday. They released her after de termining she had appearec before the judge. Friday's incident is unde] investigation. Oheco5O.''

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Memorial service today: mayors of St. Charles Geneva $325,000 for McGhee, who is A memorial service is scheduled and Batavia. He faces Amey Sil- scheduled to appear in court to be held today for Robert R. vestri in the March 16 March 5. Republican primary for the Hinkle LII, 34, of St. Charles, Why Elgin's water Is safe: who died Friday in a fire at his county board seat, which rep- home. The service will be at 10 resents parts of St. Charles and Both ifigin and Aurora supply am, at St. Patricks Catholic Geneva townships. The winner their residents with water Church in downtown St. will face Democrat Elaine Stem drawn from the Fox River, Charles. In lieu of flowers, in November. but only Aurora last week memorials maybe made to faced serious bacteria prob- Cooks Manor, 124 Sangamon Home Invasion arrests: lems that required people to St., Chicago. For more informa- Two Aurora men have been boil their water before drinking tion, call Yuxs-Wittenb erg arrested in connection with a it. So why didn't Elgin have the Funeral Horne of Geneva, (630) home invasion that occurred same trouble? According to 232-7337. Hinkleis survived by Dec. 29 in Aurora Township, Larry Deibert, Elgin's water his parents, Robert and Patricia according to the Kane County department director, the city Hinkle, a brother, Eric, and a sheriff's office. Tony A.Chil- - last week did notice elevated sister, Jennifer. dress, 20, and Merrill A. levels of ammonia in the water McGhee, 23, both of 1412 Jeri- it was taking from the Fox Davoust earns endorsements: cho Circle, each were charged Rivet But he said Elgin quickly Kane County Sheriff Ken with two felony counts of home added more chlorine to the Ramsey and county board invasion. About 10:10 p.m. on water supply to neutralize the Chairman Mike McCoy Dec. 29, deputies responded to negative effect excessive announced Monday they a residence on the 500 block of ammonia can have on overall support Mark Davoust to rep- Beckwith Avenue. Two men quality. Delbert said such fluc- resent District 14 on the Kane had knocked on the front door tuations in the water's chem- County Board. McCoy, who is of a home and, after a resident istry are common and typically not running for re-electipn, answered, one of the men hit I don't threaten the water supply said in a statement released the resident on the head and He said Elgin responded.to the an arm with a pipe, 'while the higher levels of ammonia, by Davoust's campaign that which can be harmful in large Davoust "has taken the ti= other man pointed a handgun, to educate himself on the police said. Then, the men doses, so service to houses and issues." Also endorsing rummaged through the home businesses never was affected. Davoust: county board 'before leaving with about $100 Elgin has not issued any alerts member John Hoscheit, St. cash, police said. An investiga- about its water and has not Charles Township Supervisor tion led to the arrests of required residents to boil their Jerry Swanson, Geneva Town- Childress and McGhee, who water recently. In addition to remain in Kane County jail. providing water to its own resi ship Supervisor Pat Jaeger and dents, Elgin supplies water to Geneva plan commissioner Bond was set at $300,000 for -Doug Cuscaden. Last week Childress, who will appear in Sleepy Hollow and parts of Davoust was endorsed by the court Feb. 25. Bond was set at Bartlett.

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a. Inmates wrongly freed: Kane County Board chairman responds to sheriffs complaints By Stove Lord 5TMF WRITER GENEVA—.A $9 million budget in- County Board ChainTlall Mike MCCOY crease over 10 years should be says Sheriff Ken RamseY's Inmate enough. problems, aren't funding pyotilems, That is the feeling Kane County Board Chairman Mike McCoy, R-An- that caused the wrongful release of ron, said he had when he heard criti- two prisoners in the , past several cism this pastweekend of board fund months. of the Kane Countyjait -ing Ramsey criticized his own employ- McCoy responded to comments ees for setting the prisoners free by from the weekend by Kane County mistake but also said, "There are con- Sheriff Ken Ramsey, who said lack of tribuüng factors in these incidents: funding to hire enough corrections Of- ó Turn to JAIL, A2 ficers contributed to the atmosphere

addition, about $500,000 spent on design development for.a 400-bed JAIL addition and $12 million set aside From pageAl for construction of a 200-bed jail addition. 'Plans for any 'additions, or namely overcrowding, under- the possibiityof a new jail, are in staffing and underfunding." flux right now as a consultant McCoy said budgets for the, studies the future of the Jail sheriffs office and the jail have 'It just seems we can't throw increased more percentage-wise enough money at the jail" McCoy than any other county budget, more said. "And it doesn't ëcm to do any than the jail population and more good when we do throw money at it" than thecounty's population overall. Rimsey said over the weekend 'Tm just saying you can't blame that the jail has been too small, and the board for guys getting out of the county has.struggled with jail,' McCoy said. 'By sayinglike we're funding, for 30 years. underfirnding the jail, it's saying But McCoy said he mainly, we're ignoring the need." wanted County Board members McCoy released a graph and who are newer on the board to budget breakout Tuesday that understand how much money the showed county funding for adult county has put toward the jail. corrections went from about $5' "It is by far the department that's million in 1994 to $14 million in 2004. gotten the most increase,"he said. The budget at the jail last year Last Friday, a female inmate at was more than $12. million, but the jail on Fabyan Parkway here McCoy said the sheriff ,outspent was released mistakenly because that by almost $1 million. That's of a paperwork problem. The why, for 2004, McCoy set the woman was apprehended that budget at $14 million. evening, "Itwill be pretty hard to outspend A similar incident occurred Jan. that budget," McCoy said. 29, when an inmate was released Included in the 2004 budget are after pretending to be another six new corrections officers -inmate with the same name who positions-That is a partial fulfillment was scheduled to be released that - of Ramsey's request for 12 new day. That inmate also was taken officers, a standing request he has back into custody within hours of made for several years. his release.. The budget figures McCoy Jail employees will be disciplined released did not include $2.4 million because of both incidents, Ramsey spent in 1997 for a 96-bed Jail said. ' - Cit>•to build2rd/c a nature center BY TOM O'XONOWITZ Daily Hem/4 Staff Miter - In less than a year, Elgin could get its first nature center. City offiêiais are pushing for- Ward with plans to build a nature-education facility at the Hawthorne Hills Park, on Elgin's • west side just north of Route 20 • and just east of Randall Road. To cost slightly more than $1 million, the Hawthorne Hills project is being funded in part by the Illinois Department of idents to experience nature ant Natural Resources, which learn about it. Classes coulc awarded Elgin a $400,000 grant have field trips there and youth it must match. groups could camp in the The nature center, which would be nature center. 46OO -square -feet, The Hawthorne Hills Park would include a classroom, dis- also features large oak trees - plays about nature, kitchen some of the biggest in Elgin, Bell facilities and interpretive signs said. The surrounding trails will to teach people about the envi- give residents a good view of ronment around the center. them, as well as the park's The center, located at the ponds. headwaters to Otter Creek, also "What we're trying to do is would have a mezzanine area give people a sense that you're and large windows overlooking lost in the Woods - enjoying the Hawthorne Hills Park the woods - in nature," Bell ponds, according to Jim Bell, said. "It's abeautjfijl site." Elgin's parks superintendent. Bell said the trails will be posi- Also as part of the nature tioned in such a Way so as to center project, Elgin will restore serve as a buffer between the some of the natural habitat nature center, its parking lot around it and add walking trails, and the nearby Country Knolls boardwalks, a fishing pier and neighborhood, He said city offi- an amphitheater. cials worked with neighbors and The center would be an ideal environmental activists in plan- place for students and Elgin res- ning the project. Cl) •fli

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BY PATRICK WALDRON I' on They are simply th€ Daily Htnild Staff 144i1er boundaries that limit expansior Pmpesed EIg of the plumbing that forms the expansion There's a reason the story of backbone of any incorporated undersized David slaying big development Goliath resonates throughout But with developers, pushed the centuries. on by Elgin leaders, ready to put Its because the lithe guy nor- thousands of homes on the mally doesn't win. edge of Pingree Grove, the For the most part, that goes change in the planning areas is for fist fights, political battles the only thing Elgin needs to and even, as the leaders of tiny start its annexation march west. Pingree Grove now would say, in To hurry all this along, this land development races. month the Elgin planning com- said Elgin Mayor Ed Schock. Pingree Grove - the minute mission gave approval to pre- battle grounds. It's an area of the northern Kane County commu County Development Direc- county that stands to become I liminary plans from developers to Phillip Bus agreed with that home to 100,000 new county 1 nity trying to grow a bit mightier that together would bring about assessment in his recommenda- - took a knockout punch from 4,000 new houses to the area residents in the next 25 years, the giant city of Elgin Thesday tion to the committee to allow according to Northeastern Iffi- west of Elgin and just south and Elgin to head west nois Planning Commission that could end the small east of Pingree Grove. The plan- • He called Elgin's "ability to enclave's plans. ning commission has recom- figures. . The Kane County Board's, produce drinking water an over- What kind of addresses those mended approval of the pro- riding facto? in the debate. people have remains a topic of development committee rec- jects by the Elgin city council, In the end, county board ommended amending • an debate. .. . which is expected to annex the members agreed, but some on • •Tuesday's recommendation imaginary line on the develop- subdivisions into the city next The development committee ment planning map that would week - provided some direction for the allow Elgin to expand west and didn't appreciate the quickness Pingree Grove-Elgin conifict, Luring Sho-Deen Inc. and with which all of this came but other growth fights remain. literally envelop Pingree Grove, Crown Community Develop- resulting in the tiny hamlet together. Some also didn't like The county did not sign off on z ment developers away from the fact the county was giving in becoming 'a mere island sur- Pingree Grove and to Elgin, city allowing Elgin to continue west, rounded by Elgin. to Elgin's quest for expansion. on the far side of Pingree Grove officials have said they believe, • "It puzzles me that we are let- along a path toward Route 47. A I If the recommendation gets should help the city's quest to ting them take Pingree Grove, • approved next week by the win its turf battle with Pingree' plea to add more area to the x Northeastern Illinois Planning but they won't follow the 2030 city's facility planning area far- I Grove. Plan," said Barb Wojnicld, a St. ther west was turned down. Commission and the Illinois Elgin leaders say they are Charles-Republican. EPA, the decree could put an working in the best interest of Also, an ongoing, battle 1 end to the village's plans to grow Her comments referenced the between Hampshire and Hunt- the county, its current and changing shape of the county's ley over property south of 1-90 over the next 20 years from a future residents, and its water land management Man that 120-person town to a full-blown supply. that both towns claim was put • suburb with 19,000 residents. acts as a guide to future devel- on hold. The county recom- i "Today this really is about opment. mended waiting another 90 "We might as well fold up and infrastructure and room for Board members felt siding go home,' said village President administration," said Elgin City days before voting on planning Verne "Bud" Wester following with Elgin's desire to surround area expansions for those two Manager David Dorgan. Pingree Grove should buy the cities. 'flies day's vote. Elgin officials say they have r. At the technical level, the county sway in eventually stop- The hope is, Bus said, that the a the capacity in their city sewers ping the city's growth. communities will work out g county ,committee recom- and wastewater treatment plant mended allowing Elgin to "This is another lost opportu- some sort of agreement d to handle the new homes and nity here to use some leverage," between themselves. expand its facility planning area business to be built around Pin- said John Hoscheit, a St Charles to the west. These types of plan- gree Grove. lv Republican. • Daily Herald staff writer 2bm ning areas govern , the Plus, they say, Elgin thaws its In terms of predicting growth, construction of sewer and water water from the Fox River and O'Konowit.z contributed to this ac systems. the northern half of the county report. • , n will not need new deep or shal-., - primarily the areas in the They are not zoning areas, low wells to take from limited sight lines of Hampshire, Hunt- traffit plans or even regulations' ground water. ley, Pingree Grove and now that allow or prohibit annexa- "That benefits everybody," Elgin—have been urban sprawl

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- Chro,cle fife photo The historic Third Street courthouse in Geneva, built in 1892, is expected to continue to hOuse Kane County's civil court system. Despite maintenance concerns at the courthouse, county board Chairman Mike McCoy said the county's top building priority is the jail. County to stay in Old courthouse. "One of the toilets fell off the wall Ward building on Randall Road in St- Maintenance issues when ajuror was sitting on it,-much to her Charles, meaning that it is unlikely the of- chagrin," Colwell said. fice will move anytime soon. need to be addressed Colwell, a judge in Kane County for 20 If the civil courts are to remain at years, reminded board members of the Third Street, the county board needs to long-range plan for the judicial center in develop a long-range plan for maintain- '6. By TOM SCHLUETER St. Charles developed in the late 1980s ing it, Colwell said. Kane County Chronicle that called for the court systern and cir- "It needs to be addressed in an intelli- cuit clerk's office to be at Peck Road and gent mariner. As senior judge, I'm very GENEVA— Kane County's civil court Route 38th three phases. concerned about the future of that build- system will stay at the historic ThiM Street The county board built the judicial -ing,"ColwellsaicL courthouse for the foreseeable future. center in 1992 as Phase I of the project. Colwell also asked for better commu- With the jail expansion, the animal Kane is one of the few counties in nication between the maintenance staff control facility and the coroner's office Illinois to have its criminal and civil and the building's occupants. upgrade project in various stages of plan- courts in two locations and the circuit He recounted an occasion when, ning, officials said consolidating civil clerks office at a third. without any notice, maintenance workers courts with the criminal courts at the ju- It'svery confusing to the public," came in to install a drop ceiling in a court- dicial center would be too expensive. Colwell said. room, leaving the court without any Administration Committee Chairman County board Chairman Mike McCoy lights. Paul Greviskes, D-Aurora, said he expects said Phase 2 of Judicial Centerproject was "My judges went crazy," Colwell said. the old courthouse to be open for another. estimated at one time to cost $20 million. Central Services Director Larry Briggs. 25 years. "It would be more now, probably $30 said he tries to schedule work when it is "I think it's a long-use building," million," McCoy said. most convenient. The 2004 operating budget for the old "We have to think of doing things after Greviskes said. courthouse is $289,557. Judge Michael Colwell on Wednes- hours and on weekends," Briggs said. McCoy said the county's No. 1 build- Briggs said he would make sure that day told committee members of main- ing project is the jail. tenance problems in the 1892 court- he communicated with the court admin- In May 2001, the county moved its cir- istrator when new projects are to be house. cuit clerk's office to the old Montgomery scheduled. State s attorney hopefuls discuss their priorities

By PATRICK WALDRON those assistants to report lower- county" Daib Herald Staff SWiler profile, but still problematic, Barsanti, O'Neil, West Dundee crimes such as a neighbor regu: attorney Joe Rago and lawyer To add focus to localized larly speeding through city and IBM consultant Michael quality of life issues, Kane streets. Leuer are seeking the GOP County state's attorney candi- The priority of issues impor- nomination for the state's attor- datèJohn Bàrsanti said he .tant to small, rural communities ney's office in the March 16 would assign an assistant state's wasn't lost on rival state's attor- primary election. The winner attorney to each township to ney candidate Tim O'Neil. He will face AurOra Democratic hear and collect law enforce- used the forum to stress the attorney Renee Robinson in the ment complaints directly from office's role as adviser to the November general election- residents. countyboard, something O'Neil Outside the state's attorney "Every neighborhood in this thinks is vital in helping county race, Republican and Qernocra- county has the right to have its board members deal with con- tic candidates seeking the jobs law enforcement issues heard," tinued residential growth. of county recotder of deeds and Barsantisaid Wednesday at a He pointed to his experience county board chairman spoke candidate forum hosted by the advising the city of St. Charles at the township officials forum. Township Officials of Kane and its city council in forcing In his remarks at Wednesday's County. "The state's attorney's developers to pay more money 'forum, Rago stressed his desire office needs to be accountable to schools and cities when new to create a identity theft task to every law enforcement issue houses are built. - force in the office. we can? -"I am best suited on both the He called such crimes "eco- Barsanti said 12 of his top criminal side and the civil side nomic violence" and said assistants would have the task to fight crime and advise the fighting the trend is the most added to their regular duties county board on how best to important role the state's attor- and act as a contact for resi- proceed," O'Neil said "I want to ney can have in the 21st dents. Residents could contact continue that work for my century. • jq-oq Bill • Oh ron; CU Page It's the system, not the staff In the past few weeks, two inmates another business on Randall Road, six have been mistakenly released from the more appear out of nowhere. The hottest Kane County Jail. Both incidents are spot for this kind of growth is Geneva under investigation, but the truth of the Commons, where, in addition to every matter is the only real surprise is these possible frou-frou store under the sun, it things don't happen on a daily basis. No looks like a mile brig stretch of single person should be blamed for these restaurants just opened. foul-ups; the fault lies more in the system It doesn't seem possible we have the than those who have to deal with it. population to support all these ventures, The primary responsibility our so where are all the shoppers and diners * corrections officers have is to make sure coming from? Part of that answer can be the jail facility runs smoothly and safely. found on the east side of St. Charles and There is more than enough to do simply the empty storefronts of Charlestowne keeping up with the day-to-day duties Mall. involved in the care and feeding of 500- When Charlestowne opened in the 600 guests of the county. However, these same officers also must keep track of early 90's itwas referred to as 'The New bond calls, court appearances, and Mall," to differentiate it from the little judges' orders for each inmate and they collection of stores that made up the St. must do so with inadequate staffing and Charles Mall on the city's west side. In while using antiquated equipment It's a short order Charlestowne outdrew the recipe for trouble. "old mall, "and the place was abandoned. Hundreds of prisoners are processed Charlestowne attracted its fair share of through the jail every week; each with shoppers, but it never seemed to thaw the their own set of circumstances. Many are kind of crowds that now flock to South there pending trial, some are serving Randall. Stores came and went, and it sentences, others are somewhere in always felt as though there was something between. The paperwork an average missing from the retail mix. inmate generates in court orders alone is The arrival of the upscale Von Maur mind-boggling; motions, bonds, trial store was heralded as a major step in dates, sentences - even such mundane rejuvenating the mall, but whatever gains things as allowing an inmate phone calls might have occurred have been lost by the can create a snowstorm of three-part continuing exodus of Charlestowne stores forms. to Geneva Commons. It is up to officers at the jail to make I don't claim to be an expert in the sure every one of those orders is carried economics of these things, but it doesn't out, but too much of that paperwork is take a genius to figure out that one retail often hastily written, hard to decipher area's success usually comes at the instructions from the court. Given all the expense of anothers. Where retail goes, obstacles, what should be talked about is sales tax dollars follow, so at least a not how two inmates were released by portion of the tax money Geneva gets mistake, but how efficiently the officers from the Commons is revenue that had handle thousands and thousands of previously gone to St. Charles. inmates every year. Geneva no doubt lost tax dollars when Unfortunately, but hardly Charlestowne opened, or when Batavia unexpectedly, these two rare mistakes starfed developing their stretch of Randall have become fodder for the political years ago. So in a way, the Commons is a gristmill. To suggest, as one elected balancing of municipal accounts as much official apparently did, that this might not as anything else. have happened if an ill-advised addition This will be the case until something to the jail had been allowed to proceed is bigger and better is built -,-- and you know neither logical, nor fair. Nor is it fair to it will. Then the fickle public will abandon come down to hard on an overworked; the Commons and flock to what is trendy shorthanded jail staff. The problem lies and shiny. Who knows? Maybe it will be a within a system that is almost guaranteed "new mall" in St. Charles.- to fail occasionally, and it will take hard Do you have a Guest View? Mail to work, not political posturing to fix it. Guest View, Kane County Chronicle, 1000 Randall Road, Geneva, IL 60134, or e-mail Every time I think there isn't room for [email protected].

Elgin tries fn block tax relief for casino City says it could lose $600,000 By Richard Wronski Tribune luff reporter Elgin could lose $600,000 in annual property-tax revenue If the Grand Victoria Casino succeeds in reducing the as- sessed value of its • property along the Fox River, Already smarting from the loss of an estimated $3.6 mil- lion In casino revenue this year, Elgin officials are tIght-

• the Grand Victoria is chat- lenginga$9.4mllliona5essed valuation placed on Its pavil- 'ion and parking structure for 2002. The figure is about one- third of the properties' market value of about $28 million, ac- - cording to the Elilin Thwn ship assessor's office. GrandVictoria wants the

9oo;oo0 to about $200,000, olti- cialssald, The Kane County Board of ML Review rejected Grand Victo- - FEBRUARY 20, 2004- FRIDAY ria's request to reduce the as- sessment, but the casinohas cause of Elgin's request to inter' taken the Issue before the CASINO: venc-' '° bidders state's Property Tax Appeal .A reduction In Grand Victo- Board, where It will receive a Grand Victoria lose a partner hearing. dozens of community programs A partner In one of the a Grand Victoria is entitled to andprojects. For 2004, riverboat seven companies vying for challenge its assessment, like is utes value revenue Is expected to drop to the state's final cas'mo Ii- any property owner, officials d. $17.5 million from $21.1 million cease has withdrawn from said- The difficult part comes • - .accordintobudetfis- e- in determining the correct Of its property id&in Board un value of the property Al- nounced Thursday- - though the 95,000-square-foot Officials saidthe chief culprit CW4T1NUED FROM PAGE 1 is an increase in the top state Gambling tycoon Steve Wynn and Wynn Resorts assessments because the land is tax rate on casino revenue from Limited are no -longer in owned by the city, officials said- 50 percent to 70 percent, which Casino representatives did not went into effect in July. During partnership with Midwest respond to requests for com- the final six months last yeaz Gaming & Entertainment • AkeytaCtmmeasSeSslIIeiIt Grand Victoriapaid$li8miIliOfl ,whichlsheadedbyde-- dispute is that the garage and ment. veloper Neil Blulun, In a pavilion are on land Grand Most of the Grand Victoria in taxes, $28 million more than $360 million bid to build a Victoria leases from the city property taxes pay for the river- the same period casino a inyear Des Plaines- earlier. giflWflshipDeputy55e5- frontdevelopment part of a tax- 'ibm Swoik, executive direc- "Wynn Resorts did not • sor Mark Ralcevich said his Increment financing district, tor of the Illinois Casino Gam- said Jim Nowicki, Elgin's fiscal ing Association, a trade group, havethesamecomiment assessment Is based on the said he was unaware of other ca- to the project as Midwest 1994 constructiOn cost of the services manager. Gaming ,.. Midwest Gam- facilities, which were $12.9 With a tight city budget—the sinos seeking to appeal proper- general fund projects $64.8 mu- ty-tax assessments but added -g's primary focus is the million for the pavilion and that casinos are no different Cbicagoiaild market" $6.5 million for the garage. lion In revenue against Bluhm $63.8 said in a statement- Like many other properties, million in costs-_officials say from any business trying to -Seven companies com- Grand Victoria's assessments they have no choice but to op- save money., poling to build in Rose. have grown steadily each yeaz pose the Grand Victoria's effort "I think all riverboat oper- to cut Its taxes The city has atom owe it to their share- mont, Des Flames, Wauke' R*evich said, hired attorneys to contest the holders to do what they can to gan, Country Club Hills • "The assessment just re- and Summit have submit' flects the current market val- casino's appeal. reduce costs." Swoik said, tedbidsfortheliceflse, now

ue of the property" he sai&. James Chipman, executive heldby the bankrupt Emer-, Grand Victoriaargues that director of the state Property Jekma reporter Amanda aid Casino. the pavilion and - garage are. Tax Appeal Board, said no data Marrazzo contributed to this re- worthless than the township's has been set for the hearing be- port. PLEASE SEE CASINO, PAGE

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"It's the setting aside whatever qus boat to shoot it Sri the head with scious, should drop him with violence is just as bad as alms. opposite in every single way of v* may have felt,'t Hinds re a 257'caliber Magnum. ing animals,than a much different to what actually occurred out on the Animal People essay.' Who would spend weeks In Their view some animal rights the rang.' mother raised us to care for groups, like the Animal Ubera- When the rodeo animals get and dogs, and we regularly Don Front - shocked and than struggle with in strays, despite housing - The biggest lie told by a bucking straps; they buck ject rules, which forbad component of our tide Is that wildly tending than4elves into 'However, we were told that eor]d mar we have the right to use vio- whatever is in their'paths, gates had no feelings, and weld t Pepsi to lence because they use Is and this is where his drive Is. and fences included, them with ebandoti.' orship of violence,' Hind said, He's a greet person and a great 'Mmdi said of the rodeo riders; He went onto describe father, too.' - 'If someone slammed them sing the heads of carps' an and to Aradical life change Jacquelyn and Steve live into the gate, they'd be crying rocks. One time he stulfe, ry shoots. across town from each that in for their mothers. -(These M4o Firecracker him the Rif as used as smell blood.' , , "Thom my pesspeciive, I think Elburn. They at when he devices) drive them nuts." a suffocating carp, lighting Though graphic, the video Steve Itindi has out-achieved came to this esa from St PattI, If someone came up with the waterproof fuse and relea; doesn't seem to faze Hmndi. Over any other person In the cause.' Mum. as an aspiring musician. idea of rodeos today for the first him. the coming months, he will see Animal People editor Clifton He came to Geneva and lime. Hindi said, they would be "Seconds laser the ws this hundreds of dines, said, - started working at Allied Rivet 'audfled,' ' erupted ins red spray,' H, Who shifted the-attention of While many animal rights Clifton fielded Hindi's first As a shipping clerk. He worked The Professional Rodeo Cow- wrote 'When the muddy w groups use their volcas as their phone call and has seen him his way up to running the com- boys Association steadfastly dented, we saw the carp's h weapori,Hindi uses technology, through the transformation - Party - denies that any of Its policies blasted swayfrom his body' specificailyviden from animal killer to activist Eventually her father loaned allow for the harming of ant' Rinds said he killed bert He's traveled'to Springfield to - In 1990, Hind called the now- money to the newlyweds so mali, he was taught hwas OK. eu show this video on the)00 .inth defunct publication Aaslsnsls they could buy the cooinanv In a 20-ones brochure tided he was out off when hit. screens In front of the state- Agenda and said he was n - its re,' it explains hours.. hunter but wanted to save the He'll continue to show it to sport by doing sway with anyone who will watch. His unsportsmanlike practices —L In group, Showing Animals specifically the Regina, Pa.. pmt about his right, other thafs Respect and Kindness.' or pigeonshoot. where It started, Is how he's SHARK. Is a small one, a dozen - It was there the year before done it. - people at most, but members that lllndl had his epiphany. A his pilot's license. He has been - While inisny animal rights gets reaction by bringing these lifelong hunter, he stopped at an advocate for the homeless groups rely on traditionally harrowing Images of a flailing, the pigeon shoot on his way to and tin unsuccessfully for the animals first-hand," the When he began to feel t influential techniques most dyinghoraetothepublic, the East Coast from Illinois for state House inn contest he lost beochurerasds. about hunting, after the I notably finding strength in 'Whenwetakeaposielonon sharkhusstlng, - lz years ago eo Tom Crow, near Hindi chose these particular Regins pigeon' shoot, numbers - Hindi's fight has something, we're serious about But seeing thousands of Illinois' House Republican issues, Clifton said, because focused mainly on the cat mirrored his Old Man in the it,' Hind] said. , pigeons released only to be shot leaden - many others wouldn't approach that teach tradition trus Sea' tale.. Those methods have diafin' seconds later at dose range and Jacquelyn home-schools their them. The vast majority of thouL 'A tone man in a small host, he gabbed Hinds and SHARK from then leftthick for dead made Hindi youngest daughter, Eva, 13. animal activists are women; 'Its animals for enterer fights desperately against a Almost the entire world 'of sian to k. also have a 19'year-old, Clifton said, and they tend to Agent, snitnals being abuser farce far strpnger than himself. animal rights groups, according Luckily, the hunrer got Clifton Meghan. focus on women's issues like the people's enjoyment and ml His usual method of attack to Martin Clifton, editor of the on she phone instead of an Compassion, the said, led wearing of fur cones, the testing children,' Jacquelyn Hindi e takes him around the marry to Clinton, Wash-based animal anisnal advocacy group. - Steve to take up this fight, of makeup on animals and the '(Al the pigeon shoot) they covertly shoot video of animal welfare newspaper Animal His grand Idea at the begin- Before he came to G.Jcago,'he trearmentofpets, theta young kids, 9, 10, abuses and then broadcast People. They have shown the ning, Ile wanted to holds prize worked for United Cerebral "There's been relativelylittle wringing the heads off pig those videos on a specially power that technology was have fight with the pigeon shoot Palsyand Union GospelMisslon attention paid to men's issues,' and wiping the blood on I equipped truck that now has insuchafigial , Organizer Mid the winner would inSe.Paul. - - Cliftontd. shirts' But many - even some decide the fate ofthe event. - 'He's for the underdog,' she The otherreaaonhefame after By showing others who taken its within the anisnal rights com' 'I didn't are the animal rights said. 'And animals tend to be these targets, Clifton said, is believes Is the truth of sal country - just plain disagree community going along with No one Is standing up for they, Influence cultural peteep- treatment divorced from with both Hsnds'stargeta andhis that," Clifton laid. 'it certainly them,"- - -' dons about animals product ifs trying to sell - methods. , was a novel Idea,' - , ' 'vThat rodeo is doing is glori- the entertainment of the to Donna Ewing, founder and Hindi's - educational and Choosing tartets Nina animal abuse and making or the meat of a horse - of attention-grabbing efforts, ' '' iiaeptable,' Cljfeoas said. - hopes to change the way oil inciudingvideodocusnenialion. But aside from compasalon,,, - treat animals and help it who and Protection Society, and did eventually help lead to the, Hinds had other motivations to The deasion is yours avoid all that raw with kilt ester- Hinds have had a longstanding defeat of the Regina pigeon surnhisllfeeround. - ., "Wlaae we have to do Is tt shoot, albeit ID years later. The - -Ins 1996 article In Animal Growing up in St Paul, Hinds people see and makeup U decision to finally put a stop to People, Hindi wrote. 'I stole the said he received "Ad in.. own minds,' Hind said, rn it wane at the hands of the chief lives of uncounted victims of sages about how to treat a very American way of dc justice of the Pennsylvania many'spedss w animals and was encouraged in things.' Supreme Courtin July 1999. He As he found his place within - - nuaustg oslepseless anrmasa Images minor snows ass tnxen called the event 'cruel and the anImal rights community, •9 - ______-. with ovsrpowei'ing weaponry, out of context moronic.' he didn't focus, as so many we hunt with our video earn- She also agrees with many Hindi soon realized that aside have, on ending animal alsugh- cane' -' - rodeo gaoups that the traditions from the close friends - he tersitogether.- of the sport do not actually hurt swayed to the cause, other, Instead, Hindi has found me. Horse slaughter -' she animals and that it's even lssmterswouidn'tjuinhlrm cess focusing somewhat necessary for society that 'Mat caused him toscsiously narrowly on pigeon shoots. Right now, Steve Hindi has his people learn how to lasso am- reappraise the whole thing, bullfighting, rodeos and, new energies trained on Cowl inter' msls. - Clifton said, horse slaugisler. national, the horse-slaughter '(Hiadi's method's have) He also realized that since his 'My feeling is that if you are I plant that burned down in raised en Awareness tlsatpeople views Included ethical hunting, goihg to make change, you I 'DeKslb two years ago, should clean up their acts,"' hedidn'r really fit in with anyof make change insseps,'Hindi 'The Beiginn'based company's Ewing said. 'Butt think they've the existing animal rights, said, - 0 -plans to rebuild have been the gene Ion far and I disagree with groups. , In one of his most infamous subject of Intense controversy, using emotionallrsn and taking Finding himself in between stunts, Hindi took a cattle pood - as the plant Itself has been sines things out of concert in am their the two worlds, he decided to to himself in front of the Kane its'openirsg In the 1980s. Hindi point arrest.' found the Chicago Animal County Board In July 1990 to is just one voice among many, One method Hindi doesn't Rights Coalition arid, later, protest the upcoming rodeo as I but with his Images, his opinion use is violence. When con. SHARK. - part of the Kline County Fair. Is àne of the most graphic. tacted, Professional Rodeo But after starring his quest He later described it as a- I Until ithumed, C,',vei was one Cowboys Association spokes. with the goal of bringing dignity 'very, very hard slap' on the ol'thtee such facilities In the woman Leslie King declined to back to hunting. Hindi soon arm. Many of the videos lining I country that slaughtered horses comment on him as an sndhed- went all out against the sport. the shelves in Hindi's study i Fair human consumption, the usi but said he was an "animal He buried his hustling trophies show these prods or similar othertwobeinglnTexsa activist,' many of whom are and became a vegan, a dietary devices being used to send I While sine legal for consunsp- considered domestic terrorists habithehas since dropped. rodeo animals Into the hysterics tin in the United States, horse by she Federal Bureau of Investi' The radical life change led that make for an entertaining meat has a market in Europe Rating. him to separate from hisstifF, show. arid Canada. And hone meat Rumors continue to swirl on Wlalle still involved in ton- As Hindi watchts theta does and its way into pet food the Internet about the still- ventional animal-rights videos, he said he truly cannot in process that comes through unexplained Easter 2002 lire pretests, he traveled Am the understand hots people fed it's mndeeing the corsesofdead that burned Cavel to the country and kept getting acceptable to basically torture I horses, ground. Investigating agencies, thrown In jail. 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BY Tom O'KoNowiTZ - - IThwMS4JWtn - - - When Elgin offictally mcorpo - I Iated as a city 150 years ago today, them wasn't much tothe. tinytownontheFoxRiver. It hadmile been a village just one pace square in size, with some ts to 2,000 people, mud streers.a men- minted municipal hill, I I and of schoolhouses, a sin= officer and no fire department, $ she lob- the Clearly, a lot has changed es for , an rationonEc 28,18M. :Pmc- The Elgin of today counts 1'^ among its pop ulation morert^ band than .r will 100,000 people rel

ivices wide range of amenitits DMa IflNGE/OAILV HERALD y will In a world-class orchestra, n Ogle Mayor Ed Schack, described by some as the city's visionary, says the future will bring thou- is the riverboat casino arks' to the cornfields near Bowes and Randall ached pools, alibrary churches, hospi- sands of new houses reads. )gram tals, restaurants and a - - - - brms top-of-the-line recreation offering its diverse pool of resi- cities? said E.C. 'Me" Alit, a costing center with most resi- IL center. - dents the best of what cities can former Elgirl mayor who has dents working in flour mills, a opley Elgin today calls on hundreds offer lived in the city for 54 years and woolen mill, a distillery, a tan- rville, of police officers and firefighters "I think Elgin is an incredibly has writtenits a dozen bookshas nery and daisy farms. The city's far as to protect its residents, and exciting place- It has a certain about history "Elgin alot numerous dairy farms and the Erlaps thousands of local workers keep uniqueness that differentiates to offer. It's more than just a' opening of Gail Borden's milk the town service and manufac- ,us from the average suburbs,', suburb.' condensing piant4n the mid- tudngIndustries tIuiving said Schock, a retired teacher 1860s made Elgin the daisy And just as so much has and elementary school princi- Much has changed cnpitalofthe country. Rush' changed In thepast century- pal who has called Elgin -home The young city also became Won't and-a-half, local leaders predict for all of his 57 years. "It was a Pioneer brothers Jamest and home' to the -Elgln National heart the'city surely Will change as great place forme to growup as l-lezekiah.Gifford arrived in Watch Co., established in 1864, aid is drastically and frequently in the 'a kid. It was a great place for me what now is known as 31gm via and subsequently became one years to come. But they seem toretumaftercellege.AndElgin the Fox River in 1835. lames G- of the region's more important confident the changes mostly is a rent place to live and raise a ford decided to set up a town industrial centers. The watch will be for the better, and vet- fani4' near where the Kimball Street factory employed thousands eran Elgin Councilman Robert At-iSO years, 31gm offers its bridge nowstands because of its and produced more than 50 Gilliam anticipates that the residents and businesses a com- river access and location million Elgin watches in more city's transformation should be binatlon of attractions and directly between Chicago and than looyears of existence.- so great that the Elginoftoday amenities you cant find else- the important mining town of But the Elgin of today no will be a faint memory in 10 -where. •- ' ' , Galena., , longer resembles the picture of years., Illinois' largest and most 'While 31gm, attracted about Its agrarian Infancy or its indus-' Despite thb vast differences in state-of-the-art municipal 2,000 residents in the following trial adolescence. Sigma past, present and future, recreation facility, The Centre, two decades, it wasn't estab- The Elgin of 2004 still has many agree a constant has been 'sits in the heart of Elgi n, draw- llshed as a cityunlil 1854. manufacturing plants and dis: the loyalty of the residents of ing hundreds of people of all Local historian Alt who has tribution centers, but it's more those who call ithome. ages each day, The GmndVicto- compiled the most thorough service oriented today - with 'People who live In Elgin have no Casino, the busiest in Illinois, accounting of Elgin's past, says its mental health center,- two tremendous passion and corn- attracts visitors from all over the that townspeople in the 1850s hoipitats, stores and restau- mitment to their city - unlike 'state. And the largest traditional wanted their tiny village recog- rants, counseling centers, any I've ever seed?' Mayor Ed movie screen in the Midwest nized as a city so they could casino and social service agen- Schock said. 'Elglnites are really opened this week on Elgin's control the schools and the sale cie& sale committed, very loyal to their weatside, " of Liquor. And in 1854. the The Elgin of 2004 is not the city. They're anne brce&" There's always things you people got their wish, receiving same as Elgin of 1950, which - can complain about in a city, a charter, getting official bound- isn't the same as 31gm of 1850$ City to watch, -' but we've' done pretty well aries that covered four square Alit said. The time is the same Torical making Elgin a good place for miles and sweazing in trustees. and the place is the same, but it liii- Schock likes to call the Elgin people to live the past 150 years Originally, 31gm served the people are different and of 2004 a city in the suburbs, - more so than a tot of other mostly as an agricultural pro- they are different communiden'

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County OKS Rand,all improvements M • A number of of ill residents have - - • expressed the j*id.#ir #t4øalittt.s.a.&vn,44 C -. r CE- need to reduce ,1--4i- l vi - the speed limit on ad Randall Road be- rS tween Red Haw er Lane. and Crane Pt _____ l(S 4 z. - to • Road in St. U Charles. A Kane a - ISPEEDI 'P Count? Board p 114 4T B- • committee on '0- Friday voted to ye install a raised n's • median on the -'it road and to lower • . the speed limit to se. - 77 50 mph. ad ed • Wayne Ratalaft - Chronicle photo staff n I - he Se- St. St. the' I Qhrcnic.f€ .in its. •'•t - c.' thei 7"a nal •-:-'-tt .Jt-r tall I •ra ecj Raised 'median, lower speed. limit planned, for S-curve 55, lani ByTOM SCHLUETER .. . Safety concerns . . tures of 20Q people seeldng Improvements... Ion KanecountyChronlde. Venegas and Zepeda attended Friday's meeting the . I •Residents, along with staff and students at s. aain, along with senior class President Niropa GENEVA -. The Kane County Board's Charles North High School, lobbied the county gartlu and driver', education teacher Steve board 'for the Randall Road improvements after. in TiansportationTransportation Committee voted Friday to support the safetyimprovements.our aid $250,000 to Install a raised mcdi..on theto Randall - North senior Samantha J005 died in an accident j,s death still resonates in school der . . on the S-curve in November 2003. '.. . and inthe.surrdundingcothntunity'VeflegaS said. rch Road S-curve in St. Charles. ' .1 The committee also voted to lower the speed .. . , ' . .- The median will be nine feet wide and have 9- I- limit to 50 mph from 55 mph between Red Haw . . ' inch-high curbs. Lane and Red Gate Road, the only stretch ofRandall killed In November 2003 when her car crossed the Pasinsid said construction bids will be accepted that still has a 55 mph limit. center line during a storm. in March. Friday's decisions were the second set of safety ' "This section of Randall is very unique in na- ' To squeeze the median into the 4-foot-wide improvements directed at a dangerous stretch of ture," Kane County Transportation Division engi- flush median, the four 12-foot-wide lanes will be re- Randall Road. The fiist approved at January's coth- neer Steve Pasixisld said. ' duced to 11 feet, and the 8-foot-wide shoulders will mince meeting, focused on raising public aware- That stretch of Randall Road follows an S-ctgve benarrowedto 7.54eet wide. ness of the dangers on the S-curve. . as It dips into asteep ravine, then rises up an equally The narrower lanes alJow.lOT to install the - Residents and students and teachers from St. steep hill. -, . '. median withoutan using more land, and Pasinsid said Charles North High School have been lobbying the At the January committee meeting, St. Charles that will have added safety benefit. county board to improve Randall Road safety since North senior Katie Venegas and sophomore Emily. the death of North senior Samantha Joos, who was Zepeda presented board members with the signa- - . See RAJDALL, page 2

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tCtw IJ- St.a)a) 4-4 a) i-. g& rortnerecora also stipulated that be must report to COURT the Kane County Diagnostic Center. The Beacon Although he showed up, hereftised News tries to be acm- From Page Al .1 nUt an in evetysirny itprdi- to cooperate. When he failed to keep H S his last app fishes When a mistake occurs, we ointment, awan"ant was is. Cl want tojix it To report errors, Kane County officials are studying the Possibility of starling one of their own. Di calf the managing editor at Officials see it as a way of monitor- 844-5881. thgcases better, diverting people flum ill the jail who do not need to be there, culling down on the number of repeat offenders and slashing costs of both The theory behind a mental-health EB incarceration and courtrooln time. court is that such cases likely would recentdeaths It also is just abetterwayofhelping be monitored closely. It is a judicial those who are mentally it philosophy known as 'therapamlicjus- obituaries / Page AB "its not only the cost of l, but, tice," which is the same philosophy when they're in jail, they don't get behind the drug court Casison, Ruby Mauuiente, 72, what they need," says McKnish. "It "If you violate probation, you get Piano can lead to crisis. Then, they may jacked into court real quick," Brown Erickson, Dorothy I(, 79, Piano need to be hospitalized." said. 'You have a consequence imme- Rievke4 Phyllis M., 72, Aurora McKnish is part of a task force diately. The punishment is directly ScaipelU, Cal, (Ret) SyMe "Sant," formed about three years ago which is tied to what you did." 85, Sandwich looking into developing the Kane Jerry Murphy, director of the Kane- County mental-health court. That Kendall 708 Mental Health Board, group about a year ago was turned down for federal funding. McKnish "When someone is picked up, that's said officials intended to fluid 50 such a good time to reason with them, be- courts across the country but wound cause now they're in trouble," he said. The Beacon News While everyone seems to agree a mental-health court is a good idea, it H Aflollinger the appears to be a ways off in Kane Coun- international publication ty. Brown said one major problem is Office lack of hard numbers, including costs 101 S,RlverSl.,•Auro,a,1L60506 across the country. McKhisi said forsuch a court and the percentage of tabby bmirs 8:30 a.m.-5,.m. Kane officials are in regular contact jail population who are mentally ill. Monday-Friday. Closed holidays. with the office of Speaker of the House Also, Kane County simply does not Newspaprdefiveiy Dennis Hastert, R-Yorkvllle, about the have enough judges to put one full Joe Weber, circulation manager bill. time into a mental-health court Centosnerwte pl In the meantime, Kane County has Chief Judge Philip DiMarzio said (630) 844'5800 or (600) 244-5644 made strides in dealing with the men- the 16th Circuit already is down two Otatoeser service e-mail tally ill in its court system. The task judges from where it should be be- custonlereeMce@00n1 mm. force three years ago developed a pro- cause ofbudgetconsideralions—and Costomenonlee hours tocol for the 16th Circuit on how to would need yetanotherjudge to run 530 am.- 6p.m.. weekdays deal with these cases, which has pro' full4ime courtroom. Also, a judge as- 1-11 a.m. weekends sided opportunity for some diversion signed to mental-health court would 5:30-10 am. holidays programs. need special training. Howe dellywy times Also, the state's attorney's and pub- 6:30 am. weekdays and holidays A mess am. Saturdays. Barn. Sundays. be defender's offices haw used an in- formal protocol for years to work out Stff, DiMai-zio said lie is "vent ll you do not receive your paper by suv our delivery deadline, please call seine cases involving mental-health is' portive" of efforts to establish a mental- customer service below 10a.m. sues. health court weekdays (or 11 a.m. weekends) But there are plenty of cases that "Many criminal cases we see in- and we will deliver your paper by Shp through the cracks because it is volve mental-health issues and prob- noon. difficult to monitor them after they are lems," he said. "Our jails are not subscription adjudicated, equipped to deal with that personnel- Home deffmap $0.25 wvokir $225 Friday-Sunday; $1150 Sunday (plus "These can tear your (probation) wise?' intermittent holiday issues) staff up, because these people don't Officials on the Kane County Board Mall subscriptions $4 weekly. know wrong from right,' said Jim are hoping establishment of the new &w,stm,d prices 50 cents daily, Mueller, Kane County Court Services Justice Coordinating Council will help $1.50 Sunday. director. get the kind of numbers—both on jail population statistics and costs - Advertising Classic example needed to look at specialty courts. Dlsr4ay Seedbtog Robed Well, manager Mueller said a mentally Ill person in Board member Jim MlttheIZ R-North Cat (630) 844-5858 from 8a.m. to a state facility often will get treatment Aurora, chairman of the Judiciary p.m. 'soekdays. there that involves medication. While Committee, said the County Board clossMedad,eilbb,.. the person takes the medication, he could we a resolution seeking to es- Call (630) 844-5811 from 830 em, to feels better and eventually is released. tablish the coordinating council as 5p.m. weekdays. But sometimes, after that; the person early as March. On-line think he's doing fine, doesn't need the q don't think there's anybody who Brenl Albrocht,ad riltriager medication and stops taking it Before Cell (015) 439-4377 from 0:30 am, to doesn't we the need," he said. "These 5p.m. weekdays. long, thatperson could end up back in. people come in and out of the system. the court systern. They are the toughest to deal with." Obituaries McKnish said that is why, in addi- Board member Karen Mc- Cell (630) 844'5837 between 8a.m. lion to a special court call, more "sup' Connaughay, It-St Charles, chainnan and 8p.m. weekdays or 4-8 p.m. port housing" is necessary as a place of the Corrections and Rehabilitation weekends and holidays to send these people while on proba- Committee and a candidate for board Newsroom tion. chairman, said "binding always is a Jim King, managing editor 'There is a 60 to 90 percent recov- question." She pointed out that spe- Na,sme.a umber. (630) 844-5900 emyrate, depending on the illness, with cialty courts, for drugs, mental health Nemaoew tat (630)844-1043 medication,' Mcknish said. 'Without and domestic violence, are the trend - Send email to stall members at meds and supportive housing, we across the country. llrst Initial lest name @ scnl.corn won'tgetanywhere." an "itmay be that in the final analysis, [email protected] Aurora experienced extreme that is more efficient, more cost-effec- News question orcoàslabdi Cat Jim version of that situation in 1996 when tive," she said. "As a society, we need King (630) 844-5881 Jerry Piazza, a diagnosed schizo- to begin addressing some of these is- To Lamest a desy or photoc Call City phrenic who refused to take his med- sues from a different viewpoint" Editor John Russell (630) 844-5902 submit ication because he didntt believe any- McKnish believes establishing the To a press release: Call commu- thing was wrong with him, killed his mental-healthcoustwou]dbeastepto. allies editor Jolene Kramer or Dixie father and brotherat the family home ward overall better treatment for the Endicott at (630) 644-5880 on Prairie Street in unincorporated mentally Ill, as well as cost-eftbeve for Local nty,s editest John Russell (630) 644-590t Denise Crosby (630) 844- Aurora. taxpayers. 5870; Charlotte Gillette (630) 844- Al the time, there was an outstand- "There is no savings to doing noth, 5693; Jolene Kramer (630)844-5885 ing warrant for his arrest stemming ing," he said, 'It's time that we drew a Phobic Donnell Collins (630) 844- from an earlier domestic-violence line. 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ADove J4Itlst mu i us 51 JUNND1AN HOUSE / SThJT PHOTOGRAPHER Pr. Charles Smith talks with Leon Fox at the reopening Saturday of Smith's African-American Museum and Black Veterans Archives on Azirnra's East Side. Below: Faces ale set into the wall at the Charles Smith's museum as part of his 'Silent Faces' memorial to the underground rail- road and its passage through Aurora. African-American Heritage Museum reopens By Brian Shields - ucating African-Americans and several years ago to bring the SPECIAL TO THE BEACON NEWS others about the struggles and museum more into the main- triumphs of black people in stream. AURORA - It might be inap- America There had been some com- propriate to say Dr. Charles As people milled around the Smith came home triumphantly plaints over the years from peo- yard and chatted on Kendall pie who live in the mostly resi- Saturday, because that would in- Street, Smith was about to start a dential neighborhood about safe- dicate that all of hiswork is done. tour of the outside wall, which ty concerns, but Smith and oth- Smith, the founder of the depicts black history from its ers passionate about the muse- African-American Heritage Mu- start in Africa through the Mid- ums mission addressed those seum and Black Veterans dle Passage which brought concerns while working with Au- Archives on Aurora's East Side, slaves to Jamestown, Va., in 1619 rom Township and Kane County celebrated the grand reopening and beyond. on refurbishing the site. of the art-covered home and (The museum) is never Smith moved to New Orleans grounds at 126 S. Kendall St. closed," Smith said. "All you in 2002 and has established a with a multicultural crowd of lo- have to do is drive by and see a similar museum there, but he cals, out-of-towners, supporters, finished piece in the yard, or a still owns the museum and land art students and history buffs. piece in progress. This is for Pen- in Aurora Many of his pieces are Now that the museum has the ple to be educated and see what meant to be displayed outdoors recognition Smith and many oth- were all about" to change with the weather and en feel it deserved from the mo- Feb. 10, the Kane County time, ment it was born in 1986, Smith Board approved a special-use Many of Smith's pieces are on is ready to go even further in ed- I variance for which Smith applied le Turn to MUSEUM, Al O)G) . rna).J..6C) E2 ! $. • . a) °g 4HJfl flHsfl 4'ci SLE .t il• WB F 1-. Ei 000c)4)0tCta) g'O v E1fl

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ana we win ceurVer your paper oy Cl •noon. a Subscription rates four lanes for years. Eventually, the pi Home dell $3.25 weekly; $2.25 th riday-Sunday; $1.50 Sunday (plus road will be widened all the way to Al intermittent holiday issues) ORCHARD• Route 30. Mail subscriptions: $4 weekly. From Page Al County and city officials have to Newsstand prices: 50 cents daily. worked for 10 years negotiating de- bo $1.50 Sunday. and the city of Aurora, it now ap- signs and options with residents in pears the county will pay a little the area. Late last summer, after Advertising more. Wyatt Friday confirmed what meetings with residents throughout D!sp!ay adváttlslng Robert Wall, manager Aurora officials have said that it the different neighborhoods along Call (630) 844-5858 from 8 a.m. to 5 looks like the city only will be able the way, officials got a design with • p.m. weekdays. to come up with $5 million of the which residents said they were • Clallied advertisIng project happy. Call (630) 844-5811 from 8:30 am. to "We'd like it if they could get to In addition to the .roadWork the 5 p.m. weekdays. $6.5 million, but well see," he said. design includes berms and 9-foot- theattng It looks like *e'll:have to come up tall fences in some places to contain Brent Albrecht, manager with the money." noise...... Call (815) 439-4377 from 8:30 am. to 5p.m. weekdays He said he was unsure just where Kane officials want the widening that money will come from in the project to be as successful as the Or- Obituaries county budget chard Road underpass has been. Of-. Call (630) 844-5837 between 8 am. ficials were notified that the under- aijd 8p.m. weekdays or 4-8 p.m. 10 years planning pass won Project of the Year Award weekends and holidays Still, Wyatt said county officials from the regional American Public Newsroom wanted to get the project bid and Works Association and is now eligi- Jim King, managing editor started. The county and city have ble for the national award given later Newsroom number (630) 8445900 had plans to widen Orchard Road to thisJ, ar. Newsroom tax (630) 844-1043 sehd e-mail to staff members first Initial last name © scnl.com bmnple [email protected] News question or complaint? Call Jim King (630) 844-5881 OFFICER "Some days, you get a con To suggest a story or photo: Call City Editor John Russell (630) 844-5902 From Page Al vittion, and you feet gOod1 Yo submit a press release: Call commu- nities editor Jolene Kremer or Dixie witnesses for both sides testified and its all highfives. This:. Endicott at (630) 844-5880 that tire marks showed no evasive- Local news editors: John Russell (630) maneuver marks on the road - a is not one of those days. We 844-5902; Denise Crosby (630) 844- fact that was difficult for the defense• 5870; Charlotte Gillette (630) 844- to overcome. had officers testifying 5893; Jolene Krdmer (630) 844-5885 - "There was no deer," Kendall Photos: Donnell Collins (630) 844' 5917; Steve Rosenberg (630) 801- County State's Attorney Tini Mc- against officers.. it's 5413 Cairn said in hi closing arguments. Ripoiters: Mike Cetera (630) 844- "We know those accidents happen, tough. We work with these lint thic IC tint thi r2cn" L i1 iMilhI ifl

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oi Meyer said. "It is an epidemic GRANT-- with roots in our lifestyle." The Beacon News tries to be accu- Meanwhile, Friday's summit Or rate andfair in evetystoty it pub- From Page Al showcased the city's already es- hikes. When a mistake occurs, we tablished community health cen- want tofix it. To report errors, Youth Services, the Visiting Nurse ters - Aunt Martha's Youth Ser- call the managing editor at Association and Community Health vices, Visiting Nurse Association .01 844-5881. in Partnership are not allowed to and Community Health Partner- discriminate for residency issues. ship -. serving patients regard- • The abbreviation for.the Indian While there is no data for the less of their ability to present an Valley Vocational Center was in- "medically underserved area," insurance card. correct in a story Friday about Onwuta said, health statistics for The summit's- organizer,. Kane -00 construction of anew admijijstra- the Kane County portions of Au- County Health Department Per- tibn building for the Piano rora showed high rates of dia- sonal Health Director Theresa School District betes there. Heaton, said there was great /N! Mortality rates for diabetes hope because in the last two were higher in Kane portions of years, the VNA and Aunt. .0 Aurora during 2001 - thelatest Martha's both added primary- year for which state data is avail- care services, increasing access recentdsathg able - than they were in the rest to care for the underserved, Com- of Kane County or.even the rest munity Health Partnership al- age M .. of the nation. ready provided these. Diabetes hospitalization rates Still, once these centers oper- Janriey, William H., 75, Mont- also skyrocketed here in 2000 to ate at full capatity, Heaton said, gomery well over Kane County, state and projections are that they will Smith, August W. Sr, 77, Leland national numbers, although a serve only 40 percent of the pop- Tannenbaum, Harry J., 93, North year later they were down again. ulation's needs unless current Aurora Mercy's prOgram comes from funding levels are changed. an effort initiated by Cdmpaneros Also cited in Onwuta's health en Salud - along with former and disease profiles were num- Mercy President and CEO Jack bers indicating a high rate of can- Barto - to stem this epidemic, cer. - Meyer said. In particular, the pro- Malignant neoplasms, a cite- :The Beacon News gram would address diabetes in a gory including a number of differ- language and cultural way to the ent cancers, - was the leading A Hollinger Hispanic community. International publication cause of death in Aurora in 2001, Efforts are under way to hire a the epidemiologist said, whereas Office bilingual, nurse educator who it was heart disease in the rest of 101 S. River St., Aurora, IL 60506 would launch the program, possi- Kane County. Breast cancer mor- Lobby hours 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. bly as soon as spring, 'Meyer tality rates in Aurora also were -Monday-Friday. Closed holidays. said. The hospital still hasn't re- higher that year than they were Newspaper delivery ceived the funds, although a in the rest of Kane County or the Joe Weber, circulation manager spokesman for Hastert confirmed nation. they were earmarked. Cujstonierietvice phones While such statistics don't nec- (630) 844-5800 or (800) 244-5844 Also, there are plans for a site essarily reflect the large medical- custainer service "all at Mercy and one also to be de- ly underserved area here, Heaton • customorservba@scn1m termined within the community. said, access to primary care Customer service hours There have been discussions means that diseases get treated 50 am.- 6p.m.; weekdays with St. Nicholas Church, al- soon, complications and hospital- 7-11 a.m. weekends though the program may end up 5:30-10 am. holidays izations are prevented, and pre- elsewhere; mature deaths can be minimized. IIntedelivery firm Mercy is in talks with potential 6:30 am, weekdays and holidays lam. Saturdays. 8a.m. Sundays. partners in the diabetes initiative. Onwuta's statistics referring to "We can't get enough people at if you do not receive your paper by -Aurora are based on the Kane 'our delivery please call the table discussing diabetes," County Portions of the city. customer service before 10 am.-- weekdays (or 11 &m. weekends). and we will detLvervo. ' ---- a I Democrats hi Kane set sights On more gains. • Candidates forum: County demographics are turning in their favor, leaders say

By linda Girardi BEACON NEWS CORRESPONDENT With the election season in full swing, Kane County Democrats say they don't intend to let go of their foothold in county elected offices. The Aurora Township Democratic Central Committee on Sunday sponsored a candidates forum in a conference room at Provena Mercy Center Hospital, County Board candidate Paul Greviskes, who represents Aurora's near West Side, said when he first started serving in 1990, the final vote of the Kane County Board always ran 6 to 20 in favor of the other party. "We changed it because Republicans were fractured and we had the ability to affect the outcome and its been that way ever since," he said. Greviskes, an attorney, is unopposed in the March 16 primary. With the strength of two Democratié representatives on the county's executive committees, Greviskes said Democrats have been successful in enacting programs that otherwise would have fallen by the wayside. "There are programs Republicans would never have funded," Greviskes said, referring to an intensive health care program for you single mothers. There are two Democrat candidates vying for the County Bard seat in District 4. The candidate Who wins in this month's primary

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• 5 p.m. weekdays. On-fine adye,bth '-.rent Albrecht, manager :EaR (815) 4394377 from 8:30 am, to er' 5p.m. weekdays not a solution." Coroner candidate Robert Moore • 'Obituaries DEMOCRATS opened his remarks on the lighter Call (630) 844-5937 between 8a.m. -and 8p.m. weekdays or 4-8 p.m. From Page Al - side, by saying Quincy from the - -weekends and holidays television show wasn't the coroner. will face Republican incumbent "The guy with the mustache who - Newsroom Penny Cameron. was always giving Quincy a hard Jim King, managing editor Bonnie Kunkel said her time was the coroner," Moore said, Newsroom nurebec (630) 844-5900 experience as a practicing attorney adding its that toughness that he Newsroom fat (630) 844-1043 and years of volunteering have would bring back to the office. Send e-mail to staff members at given her insight about the issues "The coroner is the chief - first initial last name @ scnl.com facing residents, many of them investigative officer in cases of [email protected] struggling with real life problems. murders and suspicious deaths. He News question or complaint? Call Jim "I've heard the stories but its not needs to be an investigator," said -'King (630) 644-5881 enough - yoLl have to listen and Moore, who once served as a U.S. Tri sqggest a story or trlmter Cafl City act, Kunkel said, adding the Army military policeman and has 15 Editor John Russell (630) 844-5902 county's growth and fiscal issues years in law enforcement 'Tosale Gall commw - -nities editor Jolene Kramer or Dixie need to be addressed. Moore said he would enhance - Endicott at (630) 844-5880 When asked 'why she was existing programs to reduce drug Local news editors John Russell (630) unsuccessful in her last attempt, trafficking and usage, abuse and -844-5902; Denise Crosby (630) 844- Kunkel said it's challenging to run neglect of children, drunken driving 5870; Charlotte Gillette (620) 844- in a predominantly Republican and suicide -programs instituted by 5893; Jolene Kremer (630) 844-5885 county. Mary Lou Keams and advanced by 'Pirates Donnell Collins (630) 844- "If we can't out spend them, we David Moore. 5917: Steve Rosenberg (630) 801- can outwork them," she said. "I He pledged to work cooperatively 5413 promise to work harder to win." with members of the County Board, 'Reporters: Mike Cetera (630) 844- 5853; Jim Faber (630) 844-5889; Ed Her primary opponent, Frank law enforcement, schools and Fanselow, (630) 844-5957; Marie- Craig, whose profession is in the municipalities to educate and reach Anne Hogarth (630) 844-5955; Ste'e global travel agency industry, said out to residents. "Our current coroner Lord (630) 844-5926; Mary Ellen the county must attract corporate has paid lip service or ignored these - 'Moore (630) 844-5882; Dave Pam programs," Moore said. - (630) 601-5495; Dan Waitt (630) 844- businesses. • 5829; Mail Hanley (630) 801-5414 'We need the types of businesses Renee Robinson, who is running Business; Tom Johnson (630) 844- that bring real jobs and real benefits for Kane County state's attorney, In 5888 and ease the property tAx burden on said she was the first African: N American woman to prosecute ci ,Copy/deslgu desk Rick Wager (630) residents," Craig said. th 844-5840; P. Joseph Gillette (630) Tom Meadath, also running for cases in DuPage County. She now a • - 844-5820; Bryan Noonan (630) 844- Kane County Board, is unopposed practices law in Aurora. cc 5694; Jason Bauman (630) 801-5491 "We need to bring integrity and in the March 16 primary. 51 Daybreak/ Go: Penny Falcon (630) "We can do business as usual or accountability back into law ey • 844-5963 stop the uncontrolled growth, rising enforcement," Robinson said. ho Spoy— 'Jpor4s Bill'Kindt (630) taxes and increasing unemploy- Michael Lowery, a staff 98 • 944-5878; Jeff Long (630) 8445954; CO -Tim Wagner (630) 801-5487; Rick ment rates and give government psychologist for the state-run Elgin Au • Armstrong (630) 8445912; Mike back to the voters," he said. Mental Health Center, said he believes he can transfer his SR Knapp (630) 844-5911 Meadath, a 'Vietnam War veteran 31 ,Viewpeirrt Jim King (630) 844-5881 and owner of a Web site design experience of serving as a civil • Suppoft Dixie Endicott (630) 844- company in St Charles, said 28,000 servant to the office of Kane County 5969; Patricia Hard (630) 844-5894; people in Kane County are recorder. not Chris Slick (630) 844-5904; Claudia unemployed and thousands are Lowery proposed to cut costs and Vi -Wennmacher (630) 844-5900 living below the poverty level. He increase efficiencies in the office It and update existing technology. SE Web site said the solution is to recruit new gre www.suburbanchicagonews.com businesses to thecounty. "I plan to first reduce waste in the sod Meadath also urged voters to budget," Lowery said. sion enjr check the facts. Democrats say they are hopeful spa "An informed voter is a about the prospects of once again relat nightmare to the Republican party," holding the county's key offices. At Beth - Suburbanrban Chicago he said. one time, Democrats held (bu Meadath will face Republican countywide offices for clerk, sheriff Karen Steve-McConnaughay in and coroner. November. "The demographics of the county The Beacon News, "If you look at the poor are changing," Greviskes said. U5PS037-800 performance overall of the County The forum's moderator was State Published daily lot $169 per year by Fox Board, I don't consider that a Rep. Linda Chapa LalRa, D-Aurora. Valley Publications Inc., 3101 U.S. 30. OWOR • Plainfield, IL 60544, Periodical postage paid recommendation," he said. "If she "I am encouraged we'll get the .81 IL 60544. Postmaster: send Plainfield, wants to exhibit leadership, why representation that directly reflects Pt address changes to The Beacon News, 101, Ut - S. St., Aurora, 1L60506. hasn't she done so by now? I the demographics of the area," she River PERS Vat. 157 / No. 72 consider her part of the problem, said.

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BY PATRICK WALDRC)N months following the Novem- ber traffic death of St. Charles Daily Herald &aff%S5itir North High School seuior Work to install a,median. Samantha Joos. between north- and south- She was killed when she lost bound lanes of the Randall control of her car and crossed Road S-curve could be included the center line while driving in this year's construction through the S-curve. season under the latest recom- Since then, several North stu- mendation for improving the dents and former St. Charles four-lane highway's safety. school board president Steve At the continued urging of Cole have been pressuring the high school students, and other county to lower the stretch's residents, the county board's speed limit and add other safety' transportation committee improvements. Friday recommended the instal- Last month the transporta- lation of a 9-foot-wide median tion committee and later the and called for lowering the 5- county board approved curve's speed limit to 50 mph installing new wattling signs from 55. along the road. A speed limit "1 think installation of a bar- change was not included in the rier is key to slowing things first safety package. down," board member John After further study ordered by Hoscheit, 'a St. Charles Republi- the committee, the 'safety rec- can, said supporting the ommendation from , the recommendation. county's transportation division Improving the stretch of Ran- expanded Friday dall Road between Silver Glen Transportation engineer Steve Road and Red Haw Road in St. Pasinsld said the new plan calls Charles Township has become a public safety priority in the See s-GURVEonPAGE 5 S-curve: Board.pushcs for traffië lights Gontinue4 from Thge I The construction project They point specifically to the could be ready for bid by March, dangers presented by limited he said. Estimates provided in visibility at the intersections of for' a 9-foot-wide, 9- inch-tall Bolcum and Randall roads and concrete median to be built in earlier discussions show a median could cost between Crane and Randall roads. center of the road. The project "Please think of making some will shrink the width of the $225,000 and $250,000. Buta new median and speed changes," McConnaughay said U- road's lanes and shoulder by to the committee. several inches. limit might not be the only changes. Cole and even some Transportation committee Ig That engineering change chairman Bill \raft, an Aurora should result in a "natural" board members - namely tel Karen McConnaughay and Barb Republican, said he expects the of reduction of speed, Pasinsld said. issue of new traffic lights on "And it should vastly reduce Wojnicki, both St. Charles 1," Republicans - want more traf- Randall to be discussed, again e the chance of crossover acci- next month. dents,' he said. fic lights.

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• U) U)(._4I.n tcn-ou 0C'•2 new powerb1an: u- !1eI !i! il 1 • = By Jan Ramming T,e2 CL) 1i 0 SPECIAL TOmE BEACON NEWS • e PQ M 1o, Pq 76 E 8 The cities of Batavia, Geneva and St Chadesjoinedti 'b 0 5b0 C4CO) gethex to say that they have found "significant probIems"2 en '-oo,c C) en with ComEds newpmposal for power line upgrades. • .,- V -,0ra '- ES The cities maintain that CornEd's new plan just worft: do the job. CornEd recently announced it would withdraw its Pro posal to the -illinois Commerce Commission for high O z 0 power 138KV lines on Randall Road from North Amora to ,0000 0C2-0.El2C) .0 ut4° South Elgin in fror of a new plan that proposes upgrades 0 0 toc,.,o.oa to the existing 34.5KV substation transmission system, usingnewtechnology. Am i.00 "0ew-EecCc I A press release from all three cities Friday aftern9ot: -00 en en stated that CornEd's new plan does not meet the long O c-, 0 range capacity needs ofcentrad Kane County"and, from fl gE!.a2 . E o2 02 f- a reliabil adpoint, puts the residents at risk of edendedt outages due to oveñoads of equipment and lines." i:4.fltS B2 0'0 .0-,en C • According to Batavia City Administrator Bill McGrativ ,,cdCnOO the duie reaction was "born out of complete hiista6on0' . Co 0>-. a ° Ell -1 h_ McGrath said the cities are upset that CornEd has-., ci I) ,S 2 0'.c made a study of extending power lines on the east side of - '-0 the commtmitiesa low p iority while at the same time adc •0 °•.o00.'.. 0.tI Co ingto withdraw its petition to the lCC for the Randall Road - 2 132101 lines proposal on the west side. - I) Thecities together have paid CornEd a $25,03 deposit C to do the eastside suid The study would help detennino. • .04 Co 'F fl if a nonresidential, east-side mute for 138KV high powtitr 00 C) lines would be a viable alternative. a. a, .0-a,'- In 40 H CcoE The cities feel CornEd should redirect its efforts and an 4 .&Q g • -5 money to actable solution for 1381W service to tIC the Tn-Cities, as well as from North Aurora and South;: - C) 01fl 0 4°j 2 bo Elgin, have been Solved in discussions with CornEd to -u0 find alternativeohilions to the Randall Road proposal !•n !- LSJco2oofl • The utility's original petitionto the ICC called for .16 00 miles of high power l38KVlinesdown Randall Road. That<" 0 'avr proposal met strong opposition than a local citizens group:: which questioned the safetyand aesthetics Ofthelines. - tt Wedon'tlmowwhatallthealtatalivesait,'saidLaflyi IM2-20 e Maholland, a Charles city administrator. — 00 Tan Lindberg, a spokesman for CornEd, said that the- 0 I. IN our proposal, since it would provide the same or betteir,. level of electrical service that customers in the area-al-.- obo ready have, without the visual impact of high voitagr --e0 U, 0 power rare lowers,' lindbert said Despite our requests, the cities haven't provided 'd 'a C with information on concerns they have with the rtlabil ty of service our plan would provide,' he said. - Mulholland said 68 percent of the power outages in SC- C C Co S Chart last year were due to a wetess in the CornEtt sro 00 system. He said thathisstaff, soindofwhom have worked" a bDfle000.o in the field for 20 years, see problems with the 34KV prpj - pond. "Our technical people look at it and say we're going t 0 0 - tnt be worse off than we are today," said Maholland. E LI'. Ii D' R - certainly don't want that 'When we've looked at all the alternatives, then we can-' ,00' make a determination of what is the best alternative for usf O2 rather than CornEd coming out and saying 'Hey, v" S solved your problem witha 34KV system. We're not that is the best system at this time. They made that dak' without our input' fl à)I' CornEd promised to have the east side power study completed and provided to the cities by March 19. - a -. a ...)IC 0 en 0 2) -C: C00 r-1 E 0 a -IH 5C °rx. 0.1

to'. &'ti VE.0 otot Consultants push for higher State funding cut speed on Galena -a P-cY-Lmcau could SlOW area sy David T naO5 sThf F WRITER . AURORA - A study of traffic patterns on park development the city's southwest side confirms many trends that area residents long have bemoaned. Millions toward area parks The study, presented to the public at a STAFF WRITER According to the Illinois Associa- neighborhood meeting this week, analyzed the ,;,.,, ,,, n,..1, fl:,4,,. i-k.,. u-.,,.. volume, speed and destination of vehicles on A CI AJIL1P_tO. LAIC fl.C1IC Failure to fund a 17-year-old state County Forest Preserve District has the major streets west of downtown and be- of Illinois open-lands grant program tween Galena Boulevard on the north, received $2.6 million from OSLAD Edgelawn Drive on the west and Prairie Street could slow park and forest preserve since 1986. development throughout the Fox Other Kane County entities to re- on the south. Valley. - One problem the study highlighted was a ceive OSLAD funds include: the city In his recent budget address, of Aurora. 8926.600: Batavia Park tendency for drivers to use Downer Place as a Gov. Rod Blagojevich suggested major east-west thoroughfare rather than the putting the Open Space Land Acqui- four-lane Galena Boulevard. ship, sition and Development, or OSLAD, Park The conclusion is part of an ongoing study program on "holiday," The move into Aurora's traffic patterns being conducted would save $34 million in the 2004 by Civiltech Engineering. ra Geneva Park - .. A,,rn state budget S I St Charles Consultants Irom me wtnpa'.i But officials throughout Illinois had several options for shifting traffic off of have said it would impact land ac- Downer Place, including: In Kendall Counfr, the Kendall lhcreasing the speed limit on Galena from 30 quisition and development of park • County Forest PtéSve District has ttl 35 inch and lowering Downer's speed limit land. OSLAD i responsible for the received $618,900.' and the Oswe- purchase of 8,631natural acres areas for parks,across the traffic lights on Galena open space and - Among the $15.3 million received the state since 1986, yearssome 1,860 in DuPage County since 1986, 81.9 of traffic routed onto acres inthe past those alone. million has gone to the Naperville The program has funneled about Park District, and $804,200 has - ting tile $32.6 million into Kane, Kendall, gone to the city of Warrenville and - eetsystem, possibly even by elimina DeKaIb and DuPage comities since oçie-way system. That system will he examined Park District combined. in an upcoming portion of Aurora's traffic 1986. With most of that grant DeKalb County has received $13 money matched locally, it has been study.. million from OSLAD. Thursday's prSentatiOn was the first time a key source for funding land acqqi- Aurora officials had seen the study's results, sition and development in the area- Local matching funds and said they would examine their options "If the OSLAD program is elimi- Kane County Board member Jim carefully. The city will not lake any action until nated or not adequately funded, it Mitchell, R-North Aurora, who 2005 at the earliest, officials said. will take more years to open up heads the Forest Preserve District's some of this land to the puhlic," said Land Acquisition Committee, noted rused, overused Drew Ullberg, p]anningdirector for that state grants usually are added. data revealed that most sheets in the the Kane County Forest Preserve to local money raised for land acqui- District arty the amount of traffic for which they sition. Signed. The exceptions were Galena, a Most local park districts and for- "We have probably taken the $70 thoroughfare that tends to be under- est preserves have not put together million we raised through referen- and Downer, a minor road with excessive their OSLAD grant requests for dum On 1999) and turned it into - 2004 yet, so it is hard to point to spe- over $100 million," Mitchell said. rasuring daily Iraffic volumes for five cific programs the budget cut will Ullberg said, in Kane, officials searchers found the busiest stretch- impact in the coming year. usually apply for two OSLAD grants carried an average of 16,200 vehi- Ullberg said Kane Countyan most each year, one for land acquisition likely would have used OSLAD and one for development 1 major four-lane road like Galena is request to develop the Pingree The Illinois Association of Park to carry between 28,000 and 34,000 Grove marsh in the northern part of Districts is lobbying hard for rein- er day, said traffic engineer Bob An- the county. OSLAJ) money went statement of OSLAD funds. The as- into purchase of that land. sociation said that Blagojevich stretcl between Randall In recent years, the district re- specifically mentioned OSLAD as Rbad and Elmwood LJrive, carries CUUUtU-" ceived $750,000 from OSLAD to- an essential program when he cam- vhides a day. A residential secondary road ward purchase of the Muirhead paigned in 2002. like Downer should carry 2,000 to 4,000 vehi- Springs Forest Preserve property, 'The OSLAD program has been cles per day, engineers said. and about $1 million toward put- essential for acquiring open space Out of all the traffic on Downer, the study chase of the Corron Farm property in illinois' most rapidly developing in Campton Township. - showed that about 21 percent of westbound few cities and villages," said Ted drivers and 39 percent of eastbound drivers 'We have very preserves that Flickinger, the association's chief were using the residential street as a high' are untouched by grants," Ullberg executive officer. seed route between downtown and the in said. 'State grant programs have OSLAD is not funded by the West Side, in part to avoid the stop lights on been very generous to us inthe state's general operating budget, Ghlena. past" but by the real estate transfer tax. - Mother contributing factor to Downer heavy traffic is the one-way sheet system in dpwntown Aurora, which dumps much of the vest-bound traffic from the city's East Side ohto Downer rather than Galena. ru Endorsements cm Kane is one .county he most disappointing aspect of County residents. the 2004 primary election is easy to Not too long ago, the mindset T identify. recognized an unstated divisiveness It is the continuing refusal of some between. the north end, the south epd county board candidates in Elgin and and the middle of Kane County. That Aurora to recognize that their decisions divisiveness did not cripple the county affect everyone, not just the constituents because there still were enough one-lane on either end of the county. Some of roads and farmland to separate the these county board members - not all communities. - more often view themselves as No longer. bookends on either side of central Kane This is not attempt to embarrass or - County rather than public stewards for engender contempt forWegman, Cook everyone. and others. Rather, it is a poignant In Elgin, Larry Wegman declined to reminder that Kane County has changed, take advantage of our opportunity to and so must the views held by the county speak directly with voters. His assertion: board and the Republican Party. that the Kane County Chronitle does not First, this type of approach to circulate in Elgin and therefore he need governance and politics is slowly eroding not speak to our readers nor our editors a once-solid base of support that Repub- • preparing for endorsements, according licans not only enjoyed, but took for • to the letter he mailed. granted. Why a public servant would refuse. It still is a longshot that a Democrat the opportunity to speak directly with will win countywide office. However, Kane County taxpayers and voters is Democrats improve their odds year after puzzling. But the decision also is rooted year. The Democratic Party is gaining • in a falsehood. influence in Aurora and Elgin. Election True, the Kane County Chronicle has victories - and not as many landslide yet to devote the same resources to the defeats - offer crystal-clear evidence.. cities of Elgin and Aurora as we have to Second, problems once only Central Kane County communities. Still, associated with the blue-collar the Chronicle sells more than 100 communities have been trickling into newspapers each day inWegman's city halls in Central Kane County. There district. Either the representative did is a homeless shelter. There are drug not know this fact, which is public arrests and treatment concerns. There record and authenticated by an are economic revitalization challenges. independent audit commission, or he Certainly, there are other examples. chose to ignore it. Elected leaders in Elgin and Aurora 7 Either way, it is gravely disappointing. need not be beholden to the interests of Wegman did not return telephone Central Kane County. Their duty to their calls so we could ensure that he had the constituency remains a priority. But the correct information to make his priority must not overshadow the needs decision. Nor did his Republican primary of the entire county. opponent, Jack Cook- Those days have been over for quite To be fair, the Kane County Chronicle sometime. The refusal to recognize such only recently has expanded its horizons. change not only will affect government, 1. Our focus once was primarily limited to it also will affect partisanship. Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles. Our • It is the thread puffing row-by-row at editorial voice once recognized the the Republican tapestry. Officials would invisible walls surrounding Elgin and be wise to stop pulling against each Aurora. other, put aside differences inherent to a But, as has been said, those days are county that no longer exists, and begin to over. work for the benefit of the entire county Those days had to end. Those days of and the entire Republican Party. "I'll worry about mine, you worry about If, for no other reason, because the yours" simply no longer serve Kane Democrats are waiting with smiles. • 3,.. —04 Endorsements. ni ' • H ane County Board • planningnordecision-making.As • KC"" BoardJ DktrirtlO president of the school bond, Van Cleave Batavia voters choosing Republican has the bully pulpit to set school the ballots in Kane County Board District lO .board agenda- However he cannot make -. have a clear choice for their county decisions by himself. ;representative: ThomasVan Cleave. As a member of the county board, he Van Cleave is a proven public servant also does not have sole decision-making • :wt a record of accomplishment. He authority. Further, his knowledge of - leads a three-way rice of Joseph Petrone finances and the pressure schools face - • Sr. and Anthony Cvek. . with shrinking budgets and residential - Incumbent DouglasWeigandisnot growthareinlinewiththechallenges - seekingre-electionin the March 16 facfngtheKilneCountyBoard. • Republican primary. Van Cleave's experience will benefit • •. Van Cleave is the current schoolboard everyone. • president, and critics have been quick to Van Cleave also has been active in the assail him with conflict of interest charges . community. He has been a strong -shouldhewinelectiontothecounty member. of the Batavia Chamber of board. Commerce,... Batavia. Rotary Club and the Such thought is utter nonsense. - Batavia Plan Commission. All offer insight To be sure,state law is unclear on for difficult county board responsibilities. when such conflicts occur. There also we . His position to limit further curb cuts • conflicting legal opinions on the subject. on Randall Road is long overdue. His -: Conflict of interest situations really are support for additional transportation a matter of common sense. They most . thoroughfares and improving current often involve taxpayer money and serving roads is tempered with the y; masters in the planning and decision- acknowledgment that both are difficult, -. snaking process .- . . volatile issues. He recognizes and is not Van Cleave's position on the school afraid to say that the jail overcrowding • board .islvoluntary. He is not paid. So there issue .is at a breaking point. are no questions of-Van Cleave receiving Van Cleave votersoffers leadership and a two salaries funded by taxpayers. clear vision for in Batavia and all of There also is no conflict regarding Kane County He is strongly endorsed.

crossings. .Käne'Couñty Board District 14 And both recognize growth is a critical It is not often a county board race issue.- attracts two, well-qualified political Davoust earns our endorsement for a newcomers to an open seat. host of little reasons that, when added That is the enviable position voters in together, make him a solid choice. -District 14 find themselves, With Davàust announced his campaign early, but did not barrage the community with a lot of campaign hype. He quietly worked to develop grass-roots support. McConnaughay in the March 16 Those meetings have benefited him on the campaign trail. More important, the which includes parts of meetings provided an excellent Geneva townships, faces opportunity to understand the every-day zes. Davoust is best concerns of his district. - equipped to represent the dtstnct and. - Davoust also offers a more in-depth :make decisions for the betterment of the analysis of the issues of the day. He offers •entire county. complex answers to complex problems • . Silvestri is a custom-home builder and and understands that progress will not be Davoust is vicepresiddntofBrasel. made overnight - .Pioducth. At the same time, Davoust under- Silvestri has been unfairly criticized-as stands there is an urgeniy to Kane a developer. He is not The man builds. County most pressing issues. Conver- fewer than 12 custom homes each year: sation and debate have occurred ad By Kane County's standards, that's not nauseam with regard to jail overcrowding, even the entrance to a sniallsubdivision. transportation gridlock and Fox River Brasel Products is a family-owned bridge crossings. It is time to act. - success story that manufactures cohesive Finally, Davoust understands the art of tape products for clients around the communication, Sometimes a quiet man, globe. Sometimes we forget that such Davoust understands when to coax amazing stories arehidden herein followers to reach the right decision and Central Kane County. when to lead them when they need to go. Davoust-and Silvestri hold similar It is a subtle difference that will pay huge views on the most prersing issues facing dividends as Kane County continues to lcaneCoisnty. grow. Both consider traffic a serious issue Davoust is in the best positicin to bring • and support the Prairie Parkway. reasoned action to the Kane County Both support additional bridge Board. He is endorsed. -

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mand'KañPimtyo officials Friday re'duced the speed Jim- it on a dangerous section of Randall Road and appro.'ëd. construction of •a thediin where a teenage driver was killed in November. Work .on the road near St. D Charles is expected to begin 4 this summer. The County Board's Transportation Com- mittee reduced the speed by 5 m.p.h. to 50 mph. on the road- way's S-shaped curve and au- thorized installation of a 9- foot-wide, . 9-inch-high curb and gutter center barrier along roughly 1,600 feet of Randall near Crane Road. Residents had been press.- ibe ingfora reduction to 45 mph. i. A further reduction in the speed limit is possible, county I officials said, pending a re- view after installation of the I median. The curve, which county engineers say. different .1ananyothePsptiQn of Ran- dàW is between Silver Glen pse and Red Raw Roads:. -th- to recent county i4 highway statistics, . 26 acci- dents have occurred in the 3- milë-lOñg area during the last ing three years. That contrasts Dci- with an average of about three ng- accidents in other busy sec- ids' tions of Randall of compara- ble length. t to Recent observations :e it showed that 75 percent of the act, 40,000 vehicles a day that trav- el through the area exceed the out 55-m.p.h. speed limit. The est- area features a steep down- 55,,, grade and sight lines that to tempt drivers to speed, ac- be- cording to county engineers. Un- -. . Wegman, Republican, for Kane County recorder. I have worked with and known Sandy for many. V yearS. As recorder, she has worked hard for the people of Kane county. As acountyboardmember, serve on the public service com- mittee that oversees the recorder's office. Under the management of Sandy Wegman, the office is a good example of how a county department should operate—S. excellent.cUstOnl& service, efficiency and consistently under budget In fact, the recorder's office is the only department in Kane county that has actually requested that its fees be reduced. As an attorney the ser- vice I receive from the recorder's office is nothing short of out- standing. . . As a result of the record number of refinancing.and home sales in Kane County during 2003, the recorders office recorded 223,000 documents, up 35 percent from the previous year. Sandy and her team have done an excellent job of keeping , up with the additional workload. without having tohire adcli- 'j tional staff. Asa Republican, I can say • Wegman represents and believes in the Republican prin- ciples of limited goverPmer1t lower taxes, prbperty rights and personal tesponsibility. Sandy is a dedicated public servant who actually puts service to the people of Kane County before politics and self-promotion. .— ciinnnrtiflP 1 r1ebeJUuhII10EYO atavia her March 16. JohnA.Noverifl Dundee Township GO1 \ATvvegmafl the right Precinct 27 committeemal Kane countyBoan choice for recorder DistnctZ lam writing to endorse Sandy...... Carpentersviii e 9A-'CM !XLt1 Re 1 . .

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A vote for Janes I am writing this letter in support of Judge Robert Janes, I believe he deserves your vote on March 16 for the position of circuit judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit I have never openly supported a candidate for office before or written a letter on a candidate's behalf. In fact, I am not related to Judge Janes, nor dolpractice in front of him as an attorney. I was recently in front of him on a speeding ticket where I was a defendant Judge Janes made an intimidating - experience bearable. He took the time to explain the court procedures to all of us, told us what our rights were and what options we had in court I noticed that if someone had a question, he would take the time to - answer the question. Even though there were about 500 people on his court call, he made sure each one of us felt that we had our day in court Judge Janes was and is the type of compassionate individual with the properjudjciaj temperament A vote for Rauschenberger we need as a full circuit judge. Government spending is out of During the time I watched him, he control. Its time we start voting in Sen. Rauschenberger has worked gave out stiff sentences when war- real fiscal conservatives and voting hard to streamline, simplify, and ranted and gave breaks to the people outpoliticians who think the future shrink the state government when theywere called for. In short, will take care of itself. Sen. Rauschenberger understands he was the true definition ofajudge That's why I am voting for Republi- that when government wastes our - fair at all times and made deci- can State Sen. Steve Rauschenberger dollars it hurts real people. He has sions as required. The circuit judges for U.S. Senate. When Sen. Rauschen- worked for Privatization and competi- of the 16th Judicial Circuit should be berger says he fights for lower taxes tion and he as publicly challenged proud that they appointed Judge and less government waste, his Politicians who take taxpayers for Janesand now we should elevate him record proves it. He has been on the granted. to full circuit judge by electing him appropriations committee in the State Please join me in voting for state on March 16. Senate for nearly his entire 11 years Sen. Steve Rauschenberger for U.S. Alison Mason in Sp ringfield. On Appropriations, Senate on March 16. Batavia

Kane' off icialsCcZ !doingthejr best'.,. to fight sprawl By DAN CHANZIT planners to make decisions on • Kane County Chronicle land use. • About 240 were completed ELBURN - Kane County of- last year on land in Du1age and ficials must remain vigilant to Kane counties conservation cbs- preyent valuablé farmland from ______trict officials falling to urban sØrãwLsaid. , "Theare doing the best they ' "A report can,' said Richard Greene aso- may. not stop date professor of. geography at a develop- Northern Illinois Utiiversity in ment, but it DeKaib.. •. 'vu' make "Kane . County is in. good someone ask shape," he said. "There are efforts questions being made to preserve land? , about how to Greene made the remarks p r e 5 e r V e Thursday duritig a presentation McCoy [and," said on urban sprawl at the annual Kevin Roblin, meeting Of the Kane-DuPage Soil . the conservation district's chair- and Water Conservation District man. Greene's presentation was Kane- . County . . Board given at the district's annual Chairman Mike McCoyattended is meeting, which was held at Greene's presentation. He said Fishermen's inn. Greene's assessment of Kane The Kane-DuPage district is . County's stance on development one of98inthestate.Thedistricts was ontarget. were established in 1937 under "His research coincides with the Illinois :Soil. and Water what wearetryingtodo,"McCoy at Conservation District Act They said. re - are responsible for providing McCoy said part of the suc- 3n technical information on meth- cess is - because of the county's ods of soil and water conseit- computerized maps, which '-'5 tion.- - .. countybificials make available to Lte Greene uses global position- , municipalities for planningur- - ee Mg and remote sensing tech-. poses. - . -. nologies to research changes in "It is a step in the right direc- .te land use that result from urban . tion," McCoy said. "We share all sprawl: -. that data with all units of govern- He applauded the county's ment." 2030. Land Use Plan, which Also onThursday, the conser- - couiityofficialsuse to plan for fu- vation district honored several n ture d&elopment. The plan ear- residents for their commitment marks most of western Kane towater and soil preservation. County for agricultural uses. -- McCoy was honored for his Greene also lauded the con- efforts on the county board to servation district's Natural preserve farmland. Geneva recy- Resource Inventory reports that cling coordinator Roger Morris include a land evaluation and site was honored for excellence in re- assessment reports. . cycling; Robert Lootens of LESA reports use a scoring Bataviawas honored for hiswork system to warn municipalities to . preserve and restore natural about land with natural features areas - at Fermi National that need protection.. Accelerator Laboratoryix Batavia- The reports are issued on all and the late John Biddle of land slated for zoning changes. • Elburn received the 2004 Dick The advisor% nonbinding reports . Young Award for his -lifetime of are used by zoning, boards and dedication to natural resources. zn ! c Iw ;g\ e. 0 0 Ctw OUtl ,,; gT. Pon Cu ron/CLQ

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•0cg stupidity 2t C, To the Editor: O.qCDco 00r1 o h1 ) I have never written a letter of • complaint before to any of the E&' CDA< elected officials in this country,

maybe that's a good thing and

maybe its not.

But after reading the Kane C, C, fl County Chronicle's article on Feb. 20 about the Forest Preserve CD ii II" •GtO C, C, asking David Peterson of Geneva ME to stop plowing the snow on the pq- Fox River Trail, I felt that I needed NO R t to start opening my mouth and begin complaining.the ..*orld are those

guys thinking? Here is someone

doing something constructive di• E"I with his own timerfor the good of the community, he's not harming

anyone or anything by doing this.

And everyone who uses the path C,_o 0- 0 0 0 benefits from it. What is the difference between Mr. Peterson

Er plowing part of the pathand a

community group cleaning the

side of a highway? Which would

be considered more dangerous?

Personally, I think cleaning the

highway would be the more (60-OnE(no (DO I dangerous of the two choices. I C, C, mean after all, what are the odds that Mr. Peterson is going to get C, 0 fl n C, 0 s. ro run over by a woodchuck? I could UD be wrong, but I don't recall any wooden cross makeshift shrines rtjfl on the side of the Fox River Trail marking the site of fatal

accident. I . Unless of course there are I plans for the Forest Preserve to Eo't0' 0g start plowing the path with some

I a fossil fuel burning engine every S. H °-E time it snows, I think they should I g at. Cr apologize to Mr. Peterson for their momentary slip into stupidity

and let him plow to his healthy

- 'ffi • tii 1* heart's content. -

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ByBRENDASCHORY - Farm details - lcanecountYcluonicl! • • Framed copies of the • GENEVA - Peck Farm articleabndscape out Peck Farm Park received state and na- Park in La tional recognition for excel- Architecture are on display lence thisiall and winter, at the Geneva Park District • The Geneva Park Community Center, 710 District's Premier historic Western Ave., or at the • farm and nature center woo Orientation Barn at Peck the OutstandingFacility and Farm Park, 38W199 ParksAward ' - .ibis •yar.from •Kaneville Road. Back copies the Illinois. Parks and of the magazine are :TRecrcauonAssoaationforits available by calling ith Back' new exhibit, the Sensory lssties Department at (800) - Gaideiü and Butterfly House. 787-5267. • To visit the butterfly • This year's butterfly house house; visitors _.passed volui3teer training is from 1 through a' 7,100-square-footto-3p in. May 15 at Pick - area of sensory gardens, - Farm. Because of its great raised garden beds designed popularity, the butterfly to encourage visitors to use house will be open an their senses of sight, sound, touch and smell. additional six hours a week, The house provides an Hours will be 9a.m. to 5 - encIosedenvironinenthere p.m. Monday through visitors cañ mingle with but Saturday and noon to 5p.m. terflies. Sunday. For information, call In November, the park Peck Farm Park at (630) ee $1 per • wa& featured in Landscape 262-8244. . "Awards are not only pub-. crepancy betwn the lishedinour5tatdem. person donation and the' Architecture Magazine, a -. •• publication of the American of prairie surrounded by a Farm zine, it is listed at the annual head-count of visitors is be- Society Continued from page i conference, Thomas said, cause some were in-camp of Landscape sea of growth, and avessel of The award for exhibits that fllmols is the leader in parks programs at the farm. Architects. memory. Visitors. came not only 'With 378-acids dffonner Peek Farm Manager Opened lastyear also ii aigis and recreation in the.iatjon, not only does Illinois know from the local area, but from farmland and wetlands soon. Michael Kirschman . said Lombard and Oak Park. And • to be surrounded by Chicago icant, Kirschman said.sobut others would know about. Peck Farm had an outstand- "It was greataward. /r5 afterto they see at butter- sprawl, Peck Farm connects thg season ofninigiii'don. . suburbanites with the large' 'They did a good job of kind of holding our own, set- a worthwhile project for their fly house and Peck Farm's ting-our standard above and 1859 farm house, they looked forgotten ecology and. agri- looking atthe rater issue or beyond what other districts The butterflyfor houseother things -êx- to do In culture that sustain them," suburban sprawl and open t are doing,'Kirschman said hiNt was successful its first Geneva, Kirschman said. Frank Edgert Martin wrote in spaces and saving some of that Steve Thomas, who works year, lcirschinan"we are staying ahead of an'artide called, "Fanning a:. heritage," lcrsthminsaid. .fotthcWestinont parkl)tsmd Acoreof75volUteet5do ..NqwProntier. Peck Farm Park- - 'it really lifts Peck Fann. and serves on - the nated 1,182.hours from )une the trends. We were recog- Tells a Storythat, Most co the national level. ltisnext outstanding Parks and through mld-Septerflbet it at- nized by our peers, and it is •Suburbs Choose to Forget. to a feature article about the Facilities Awards Committee, tiacted 17,062 visitors who nice to know that. We're not - Noting the park's-other Colorado Rockies. It brings called it a very im1ortant paid .slightly more than just doing status quo things," awards, Martin 'calledit 'one us to a leveiwbere we are get- Icirschmari said. "We're taking award" that boosts Geneva's $12,000 in donations.. of the most unusual multi- ting on the national scdne," 1(irschnian said the dis- ita notch up." . - - we paiiti to emerge, on he said. profile. America's autorilotive fringe-- i Peck Farm isarare,reinriant : SeeFARM,page3 • 73€'CZ CD' County 2! official Will tUrn herself in .CheckingitOUtI<&en McConnaughay wants to have firsthand look at booking, monitoring 2.

By Steve Lout STAFF WRITER

date in the upcommg e1ecuuIItus" County Board dhairinan — told members oL. her committee Thursday she is going td Spend a Friday night in booking at the coum tyjail- - Spurred on by reports of how difficult things can get in booking, and by recent in- cidences of prisoners mistakenly released from the facility, McConnaughaY said she could "see first band just how stressed the are in -f McConnaughay said she also voluna teered to be connected to the Court Serat vices' electronic monitoring program for a weekend. Court Services officials came to Thurs- day's meeting Prepared to put a bracelet on McConnaughaY that would, for three days, monitor when she came and went from her house. 11tMcConnaughaY delayed her hookum safrrg she did not realize she could not be.y on the program with functionscomputer such as phone mall, Slrwthbngor Do1w • ,-..- 4,..,,, lh.p Mrfllnnaudiav pICd$fed to for three can ;he said 'we're going to try a flew— try throw them off, see how

flr,,,,thr TIn, Mueller w6 nember hooked up will bring attention to pTograrn he supports as a cost effedive nite4, native to sending someone to jail In January, Mueller released a study th4j showed that spice December 1992, whenr€ the program started, electronic rnordtoring,

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rejauVely 1IIe'i '''------W a participant in the program- The bracelet - is constant companion during the time in the program. Owens said it even is wate?- proof, so participants can thawer'*ith it on 'This basically lets us know when yo leave and When you come back," Owens said,- equipment can put you out of the jail busi- ness," Mueller- told committee memberC-- we've had good success with peopleoC the program" t ELECUON203 - #> Two seek '. GOP nod tor county ti District 14 The Daily Herald sent ques- tionnaires to each of the two candidates in the mce for the Republican nomination for an open Kane ., County Board scat for District 14, Arney Si!- Arneysilvestri vestri and Mark Davoust. both of St. Charles Here - - are their responses to - selected goes- - Uons Q Why are Mark Daveust you running for this office, whether for re- election or election the first time? Is there a particular issue that motivates you, and If so, what? What will be your main ptiorityl Uav2st lam running for this office because I believe that I if- can make a difference for the citizens of District 14; heel that Ihave the ability to understand issues and concerns and act on these In a way that will serve my constituent's inter- eats. Being a resident of the 14th District, these are not only my constituents,but my neighbors - and friends. My main priority is making certain that the citizens of the 14th District and of Kane County generally continue to enjoy the remarkable lifestyle to Muith we have becomeaccustomet Virtually all of the top issues in this campaign stem from the growth that we are experiencing. Accordingly, any meaningful decisions that we make must incorporate a long-term strat- egy Sflvestt As a 30-year resident 'of the district, who has deep mots and pride in the commu- nity, I want to do my part in -

if main gnl would°be to open communication channels within the county so that we all may better understand each of the issues that we are faced with This will help us to collectively solve problems in a more effi- dent manner U. ThIl us what contributions ou would make. Describe any shortcomings in the current county hoard that you would help remedy and explain how. DaTcost One of my contribu- tionsto the county board will be bringing my business See EimllONon PACE a

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Q1n ron' cJQ 'tfl fl fl..Ct C) O'I0 . D3 'l Endorsing M 5o° C.) .. t • 0 CD(O c.. Ze Wegman !.t1 To the Editor: CD I an' writing to endorse Sandy Ct Wegman, Republican, for Kane –. County Recorder. I have worked with and known Sandy for many CD years. Sandy as Kane County Recorder has worked hard for the people of Kane County. On a: C As a county board member, I j nipC? serve on the Public Service cD Committee. This committee S-2Z'fr ° °' - oversees the recorders office. The rt P CD recorder's office under the i management of Sandy Wegman is I crJct ° 'rt-CD ...'< Ct fl o4a CD a good example of how a county n CD CD department should operate - U excellent customer service, CDw .O o DO1t efficient and consistently under CD,PJ budget. In fact, the recorder's ttD Cl) office is the only department in 0 5 CL M CDW CDCO Kane County that has actually ?5CD2rCt= requested that its fees be reduced. D-0.D r+..-. As an attorney, the-service I Ofl.. flCD receive from the recorder's office is 0 < •CD0Ct0 nothing short of outstanding. As P CtWrt-h CD CDCDtCD result of the record number of refinancing and home sales in 5 ° CD 5fl Kane County during 2003, the Ct CD EnMCDP I recorder's office recorded 223,000 documents, up 35 percent from w_D,wro the previous year. Sandy and her Ot'r* CDEfl. o_ 0 0O = CD team have done an excellent job of , 9 keeping up with the additional C)0rt - 5CtaCDE workload without having to hire S CD additional staff. 5 CtCD CD EOacpnrOCD - As Republican, I can say that P)CDS& D'a0 • Sandy Wegman represents and CD belieVes in the Republican 0 0o'5 ,"D5 CDCDQ5CD principles of limited government, nua. rCDflOCD OOQ'CD lower taxes, property rights and f'M Srt CDttOW O,O' I persona! responsibility. Sandy is a dedicated public servant. Sandy Wegman is a public servant who actually puts service to the people of Kane County before politics and self-promotion. Please join me in supporting Republican SandyWegman for Kane County Recorder on March 16. John A. Ploverini Republican Precinct Committeeman Dundee Township Precinct 27 Kane County Commissioner District 23 Fence Post J Democrats Rush Out Their Secret Weapon Against Nader Candidacy UNJ\k

I am disappointed that the Kane County Forest Presèn'e has told Dave Peterson to stop plowing a 16-inch-wide path on the FoxRiver 1IaiL The author of the article referred to Peterson as alegend, I think of him as ahera When winter brings snow, the trail is no longer enjoyable to walk, bike or jog because of the freeze-thaw cycle. As a result, the frail becomes underutilized. My suggestion to the forest preserve is to let Peterson con- tinue his good Samaritan plowing, and the forest preserve post signs that read, "Tkvel at your own risk" There have been and will be accidents that occur on the frail. I learned the hard way that when biking over the wooden bridge after a rain you have to slow down. lost more than 2.2 millionjobs." Fox River got cleaner with pas- from the Fox River. Someone said, 'tawyers and This is an oft-repeated line by sage of the Clean Water Act and I ask that we reflect on the judges make cowards of all of journalists. I am always curious actions of concerned citizens. vision of "The Fox" for a clean us." I know that when all you about what people think an Today, the Fox River faces dif- river, and ask"What is our consider is the negative, very increase in productivity means. ferent threats than the ones legacy to the Fox River in the little is accomplished. Perhaps It means that the same "The Fox" tackled. The water- next half-century?" When they some forest preserve funds amount of goods and services shed's human population is voted to remove the north dam could be relocated to keep por- have been produced by fewer. growing rapidly In Kane in Batavia in mid-Februaiy tions of the trail plowed during people, so obviously any County the population is members of the Batavia City the snowy months and there- increase in productivity is going expected to grow 71 percent Council and park board have fore utilize the trail to its fullest to bring about an equivalent between 2000 and 2030. Rapid chosen,a legacy of a free-flowing To Peterson (whom! didn't loss of jobs. It is an immutable population growth and urban river filled with dean water and know until this article), lam law of economics. development brings more high-quality habitat sony he has been asked to stop. • Dale A. Dopkins. storm water to the Fox, tearing Members of the council and One phrase I am sure of is, "No • Hampshire up stream banks. Increasing the board should be commended good deed goes unpunished." amount of sewage wastewater for their vision, leadership and Brian Kay results in higher levels of nutri- commitment to improving the Geneva Batavia officials ents that, in turn, increase the condition of the Fox River. susceptibility of the river to David J. Horn honor 'Fox' legacy algae blooms and subsequent Aurora Jobs always lost if In the late 1960s to early low dissolved oxygen levels. 1970s, an individual known as Dams impound the river, Election deadline productivity rises "The Fox" participated in a degrade habitat and reduce In Burt Constable's Feb. 19 campaign to halt the pollution. water quality. Most alarming- • All letters related to the March column, his opening paragraph of the Pox River. "The Foxs" ly is that in our lifetimes, we 16 primary must be received by said, "Factory productivity actionsbrought national atten- have seen the elimination of 5p.m. March 3 to be considered edges up, but the nation still has tion to the rivet Over time, the freshwater mussel species for publication. Aurora / receives IEPA violation • Procedural step: City has 45 days to respond On water. eI\r.çie' z//oq contarbinalion Wegman for &flfiOTI-- By Dave Pan-o j.' countyrecorder STAFF WRITER 2j 7-U!/(J'l To the Editor: AURORA - The city received an There are two reasons people official notice this week from the choose to run for office, only one is Illinois Environmental Protection for public service. - Agency, outlining how the Sandy Wegman is a dedicated contamination of municipal water public official of good character earlier this month violated whose motivation is to serve the environmental laws Kane County public well. She is The violation notice, sent exactly the type of leader that our Monday, said Aurora violated the elections are designed to select. Illinois Environmental Protection Kane County voters should be Act when high levels of total proud of their selection in the past coliform bacteria were found in the • election of the best and brightest city's drinking water. The Sandy We gnian is the current contamination prompted a boil and excellent Kane County order Feb. 6. recorder and has earned re- City spokesman Bill Catching election. said the notice is part of official procedure and sets up a time line Cheryl Puhi for a response. and six others • "Obviously, we had a boil order west Dundee ... and violated EPA standards," Catching said. EPA officials have given Aurora 45 days to give a written response to the violation, including an explanation of what was done to correct the problems. The EPA then will review the response and accept or reject it in 30 days. Aurora could face penalties for • the violations. 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• The.unpzecedented plan drew side attention butalso confrbversyj boñtrWi1etjr rDyerfiment should directly control a casino instead of Aurora simply collecting gaming revenues. • : "We really don't know" if the idea as too hotto handle, PennNaional èpokesinan Eric .Schippers said. "If casino ypu look at the uniqueness of it that • . may have obviously been a factor." •'Waukegan Mayor Richard Hyde ins pleased that his economically owners 'Struggling city on the north lakefront slands a chance to laud a casino. The three finalists will offer de- .Miss cut tailed public presentations Monday and compete in an auction process that is scheduled to conclude with • Board picks S other the March 15 announcement of a finalists for open winner. 'It's just like playing in the-Na- state gaming license fional Football League when you're going for the Super Bowl," Hyde told reporters. 'tmis is step number tine, where you have to win that di- ByMikèRamsey 1 • COPLEY NEWS SERVICE ylsion first, and then the next one. comes tip on the 15th of March." CHICAGO —The owner of Auro-. Also shut out of the auction were • ra's Hollywood Casino, who offered two proposals that would have to build a casino and turn it over to brought gaming to Chicago's south- - Illinois government, did not make ,ern suburbs, where leaders also the cut Wednesday to compete in an sought a casino for economic rea- auction next month for the state's ons. Legislation introduced in 10th and unused riverboat license. Springfield would create a new II- Instead, the Illinois Gaining çènse for that region. Board announced three other final- .7 "Ithinkthere'llbe more opportu- ists from seven original proposals hity down the line," said Gary Gras- submitted Jan: 19. So, an attorney with Southland De- • They are: Harrah's Entertain- s'elopment Group, which proposed ment Inc. and St Partners, a ven- a casino for Country Club Hills. ture involving Springfield developer 'The Southland needs this econo- Bill Cellinithat would operate in my, needs this boost, and well just Waukegan; Isle of Capri Casinos keep at it" • Inc., which plans to build in Rose- Gov. Rod Biagojevich is depend- mont and Midwest Gaming, which ing on a lucrative sale of the 10th Ii- would build in Des Plaiñes. tense to help balance his budget for "We have given a great deal of the fiscal yèarthat begins Julyi, • weight and consideration to at of the The license is tied up in the bank- proposals," Gaming Board Chair- • 4iiptcy of Emerald Casino Inc., and man Elzie Higginbottom said during the auction j%p.of a settlement to a special meeting in Chicago. • He would not take questions A2 from reporters, including why the - _tflQ9±cAilNP, board passed on Penn National • .7. $3ThonforthelistUoby Gaming. Midwest Gaming, $360 million; and Isle CUINV of Capri Casinos, $351 million. The Pennsylvania-based owner of Hollywood CasinO had offered to J'nnn Page Al •. . . . The proposals are expected to buy the gaming license for $506 mil- change as the auction unfolds. H lion, then build a Rosemont casino pay off creditors and shareholders •. "It's up there pretty high right no" while giving the state a major cut of. Waukegan's Hyde said of theHarnh's and turn it over to the state in ex- the proceeds. . • . change for a long-term manage- bid, "and I don't know exactly how The three finalists had offered the ruth higher they're willing to go; al-- ment contract highest bids after Penn NationaL liar- though I do know they've got the r'Jfs and &LPaitner4rigmalr.offered mOney?' . .).•../ (.yf METRO DuPage to consider impact of razing dams By Lynn Van Matre John Oldenburg, thsfr•ict Tribune staff reporter manager of grounds and natu - ral resources, noted that if the DuPage County Forest Pre- district decided to remove thé serve District commissioners McDowell: Grove and warrén could eventually find them. vifie Grove dams, the optimum selves dealing with the removal time would be after a thoriüni of aging dams, an issue that has cleanup to be carried out byth sparked debate in recent years Kerr-McGee Corp. as part Of - in Kane County and elsewhere. '.settlement with the U.S. EiivP Because of what district pro- ronmental Protection Agency., 1 •ject engineer ROss Hill termed The massive cleanup is e±- "an odd convergence" ofevents, pected to involve the removal of. including two independent te- contaminated and non-contam-' ports by environmental groups, mated sediment from pool four out of six dams in area pre- areas upstream from both series are expected to come un- dams, Oldenburg said. der scrutiny. Though dam removal proo- They are the Warrenvifie nents cite significant environ- Grove dam in Warrenvifie and mental benefits, dam support-: McDowell Grove dam in Naper- ers in Kane County and else- vile, both on the West Branch where have argued that evi of the DuPage River; the Chur- dence of habitat improvement. chill Woods Lagoon dam in Is largely anecdotal and that. Glen Ellyn, on the river's East dams can contribute to an Branch; and.Graue Mill dam on area's scenic charms and cOmu. Salt -Creek in Fullersburg munity character. Woods in Oak Brook. The issue remains under con-. The district also has dams at siderationby commissioners.:? Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve Also this week, Deborah Jail in Darien and Oak Meadows Fagan, DUPage County trail Golf Course in Addison. Rang.: system coordinator, provided ing in height from about 4 feet commissioners with an update to between 6 and 7 feet, most of on the proposed East Branch the structures were built in the DuPage River Greenway flail.. 1930s bYthe Civilian Consérva- A joint project involving area tion Corps. . municipalities, park districts, In an informational presenta- the Illinois Department . of tion at this week's Forest Pre- Transportation, the Forest Pre- serve District planning ses- serve District and several other sion, Hill told commissioners agencies, plans call for the 32-- that although there is no reason mile north-south trail to con- the district would be required nect 11 communities in central to remove the dams, doing so DuPage County could reap environmental ben- As proposed, it also would efits. .provide links or connections to According to the Illinois En- nine DuPage forest • preserves, vironmental Protection Agen- several regional trails, a haIft cy, the dams at Churchill Woods dozen community bikeway sys- and Fullersburg have been tems and the Morton Arbor&. identified as significant sourc- turn's new visitors' entrance at es of dissolved oxygen impair- Park Boulevard in Lisle. - ment due to trapped sediment, Pagan said that a trail feai-' causing problems for fish and billty study launchedlast. other aquatic life, Hill said. March is expected to be coth' Another study, this one bythe pletedin the next few months.. Naperville-based Conservation No cost estimates were availa Foundation, concluded that ble for the project,' which is ex' dams on the DuPage River are pectedtobe completed over sto detrimental to recreational ca- 10 years. noeing, fish habitat,. microin- 'We're not looking at some- vertebrates and the aquatic en- thing that will be built in th vironment in general, next year or so," Fagan said.' 'l'ou can 'for the entire county, not justyou,r district:flmowpd bragging,, but I'm one of We 1 , most respected board membeS CAMPAIGN 2004 BOARD: there." Weginan has 'owned various :construction and glazing bush Elgiri district .nesses.'He is àformer township . official and a member of the E1 Kane board, gin Planning Commission. In addition to challenging Cook? turSg more Wegman failed in a 1994 bid t45 member win nomihation' over formel' longtime Clerk Lorraine Sañ: Democratic His Wife, Sandy, Kane Count? faces rival,.,. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 recorder that his late father held before "Jãôk will not be re-elected; him for 16 years has been due in I've beendown the road before; a 4th time part to his lackluster campaign1 and I know pretty well how Jack big and to the changing, con? 'handles. a campaign. And : • By William. Presecky pact district's increased tendenLi know how this [Elgin] district Tribune taff rporter aj,ictj. cyto vote Democratic. lathe No-: has changed. It's, in my mind, a vember 2002 general election, h& flip of the coin between Demo The matchupinone of the came within about 60 votes of. crat and Republican," Wegmàxi four primary , contests, for being defeated.. said. "I was asked todo this one Katie County Board on March This time, Cook said he i& more time because I think pe& 16 should seem familiar 'to'. ple were looking down the road some voters;. making a concerted effort to ex- pand his organizational to November." :1 The Republican contest in strength and Is "taking the ad The expected Democratic Disfrict20:hlElglnwiJl mark vice of people who I should have push for president in Illinois, he the fourth thpe since S6'that listened to before." Cook's suca said, demands a GOP board can4 'incilñibefrt Jack E. Cook,.qg,. cessful campaign to greatly ex- didate who will "knock on doort lit faced Latry .Wegmân,'6L pand the Forest Preserve Dis- and work real hard to stop the • , Cook is the only incumbent trict's open space, while gener' tide, and Jack doesn't have a in three board primaries on ally well received, has prompted history of that." , the GOP ballot. Kane Demo- Wegman to charge that he has' '"He only 'wanted one more crats have one primary.con- shortchanged his own district. -1' term two terms ago, and here we test. In all, there are 13 Kane y0 can't put a forest pret are," Wegman said. Board seats in even-numbered serve where there is no room tot' 'DemocrátMarlena Fox, anEF districts 'up fbr election this put one," said Cook. In lieu o gin businesswoman, is :unop year.- that, Cook said he has lobbied posed In her bid to challenge the Wegman has consistently'. successfully for county rivep winner of the Cook- Wegman reduced his loss margin to boat grants ,and helped guIM. contest in November. Cook from about 320 to fewer the Forest Preserve District?th The lone Pemocra&primary than 100 votes in his 2002 at- cooperation with Elgin in an ef4 is in District 4 in Aurora, where' tempt.: Cook, a retired. pharT fort to preserve and restore natz attorney Bonnie Lee Kunkel macist has been a board mem- ural areas along the city?s rivSi and businessman Frank Craig bar since j9go.Inhis dual role front. are competing. Longtime in as forest preserve commis- "Beyond that, there is noth- cumbent Republican Penny. sioner, he served as commis- ing," argued Wegman. Cameron IS unopposed in the sion , ptesident from '1294 Cook 'countered: "WhenY GOP primary. Howard Katz, a through 2002.. you're elected, you do the best Democrat from Batavia, is un- Despite his leadership role, you can for the , entire count challenged in District 10- Demo- •Cook §ays his struggle to re- not just your district I know VS crat Elaine Stern of St. Charles thin the County Board seat bragging,. but I'm one of the is running without opposition most respected board membeS in District 14. PLEASE SEE BOARD, PAGER there." The decision of board mem: Wegman has owned various ber Douglas 'Weigand (R-Bata construction and glazing bush via) not to seek re-election has' nesses. He is a former township' prompted three Batavia Repub- official anda member of the El licans to seek the nomination in District 10.' They are Thomas Van Cleave; Anthony Ovek and Joseph Fet roneSr. , '

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L;III I I •;itA' IV '40 ]1 ZQE r=i• Elgin set d0uo .otw'.40, , . t n wEw fl 00 wOj to decide CS ,? °'' 0w 0-co 00 on major 4 0 Cc;t0W0 E,200 00 o,flt .0 growth C, D1" 0tO4 AE80 By Richard Wronski td8.,ct S Tribune staff reporter 2wooaid • go0AT. • The transformation of thou- sands of acres of open land in E northern Kane County into thousands of rooftops is e]& pectéd to move closer to real- 8 V1.,a, Qoug0 as 0 ity Wednesday when Elgin considers a major step in its '6 g Jt oflE ambitious plan for western ex- , ° pansion. - sU The 1,500 acres being consid- 00, w u'00 ered for annexation comprise w4 three major developments li ,ODQ'n p that would bring more than 0 un flI!! • tu;0 t0 c• 'A!'' 4,000 housing units into the W 'E. ' city. P 0 Ct 0 "This is the largest single annexatiOn in the history of .So4ut Elgin," City Manager David UI Dorgan said. War W -: Italsowouldopenthe way th 0 zii 0,5wo' i.?o more expansion, and the ful- fIllment of predictiohs that El- trnoq 13 - gin's population will grow 'c S - from about 98,00 to more than 0 ,J, *-1 'C 0 0 160,000 people over 25 years.. — C/)- ' But with Elgin poised to • ii move west, environmental U, groups and others' worry • V) 0 °,tS : LI about the . effects of Wide- C? •- 0 - 0ut LI spread development. • o •.- a ..' E ,co Er'., ed More than 190 people—oWl- w U Xe cials, residents, developers II -4,) 'CSC00 -.1- and environnientSstt w n- tended a hearing Tuesday be- C? 2 Jflfld fore the Northeastern Illinois Ce tr- Planning Commission, where 2. E. tn communities offered their vi- E o - Is sbus for the future of open CI) B y land th Kane County. a As community officials ex- - toned the merits of their r plans, environmentalists and

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kysinesses)fl.t n i_ kid meeting liquor lawS AURORA— Twenty-six of 32 ings to the city clerk's office. The businesses which refused businesses targeted in an Aurora Also on Friday night, clerks at sale to the underage cadet include:' Police Department sting over the Fox Food and Liquorin the 1600 • Northgate liquors, Mobil Gas, weekend refused to sell alcohol to block of Montgomery Road; Fore- Murphy's and Randall Liquors 2, underage poice'cadets. most liquors in the 100 block of all on North Lake Street The police Special Operations West Galena Boulevard; and Pizze- • Chris' on Hill Avenue. 'Group and Community Oriented ria Uno in the 900 block of North • Jewel/Osco and Aldi's on West Policing units staged the details. Route'59, all sold alcohol to the un- 'Galena Boulevard. On Friday, local police and the derage cadet, police said. Nita R. • Club Gala on East Galena Boule- Illinois State Police Alcohol Coun- Patel, 46, of the 2899 block of Shelly vard. termeasures Enforcement Team Lane, Aurora; Khaled Ni Selaiman, • Randall Liquors on North Ran- sent an underage police cadet to at- 26, of the 2000 'block of Fox Pointe dall Road. tempt to purchase alcohol at 29 Drive, Aurora; and Terri Ann Seifert, • Delray Farms on North Union businesses. Twenty-five of the 29 35, of the 26100 block of Renwick Street denied the sale. The following Drive, Plainfield, were charged with • La Valita 2, Fox and Hound, evening, a solo operation by Aurora unlawful sale of alcohol to a minor. Aldi's and Aurora Express Mart on police netted two of three business On Saturday, the police cadet was East New York Street which sold alcohol to the cadet allowed into the Alamo nightclub in • La Aurora Cigar and the Lamp- During Friday's operation, police the 2400 block of Church Road. Al- fighter on West New York Street said visited Club Boleros in the though she was not served alcohol, • America's Brewpub and the • 2100 block of East !'ewYork Street her admittance is against local ordi- Shore Club on North Broadway. at both 7:30 and 11 p.m. Officers nances, police said. A doorman at • El Palenque and Twin Liquors said they found that admission was the business, Carniello J. Perez 43, on North Farnsworth Avenue. being charged for party that had also of the 2400 block of Church • Jay's Food Pantry on Mont- been booked there; several patrons Road, was charged with allowing an gomery Road. under the age of 21 had access to a underage person to illegally enter a • Cub Foods on South Constitu- bar area; and there were no food place where alcohol is served. tion Drive. menus or tables set up - all of Later in the evening, a bartender • Aldi's on Ogden Avenue. which violate conditions required at El Rodeo nightclub, JuanCaste- • Applebee's and TGI Friday's On under the club's liquor license. nada, 27, of the 1100 block of Route 59. No arrests were made,' but offi- Grove Street, Aurora, was charged • Hooters' on Fox Valley Center cers said they forwarded their find- with selling alcohol to the cadet Drive. • __ Bill Page I •J Democracy by the numbers A friend and I were having lunch the can win with the support of just over 20 other day, and our conversation percent of registered voters, 10. percent of eventually turned to politics and the eligible voters. upcoming primary election. It wouldrft matter if onlylO percent of We reviewed most of the contested the citizens of Kane County ever had a races, discussed the various personalities gripe abouttaxes or roads or crime, but and made predictions about the that just isn't so. Griping and moaning outcomesi In other words, we engaged in about government and politicians is our favorite sport. But I doubt it's a something 100 percent of the people do sentiment shared by many others. 100 percent of the time. Everybody it After we were through dissecting every seems has a complaint and a better way to possible political issue, my Mend paused solve Kane's problems - too bad only a and asked, "How many people do you fraction care enough to really do think really care about this stuff as much something about them. as you and! do?" , I dont kid myself that anything I write' Then he added, "Ho* many do you will inspire people to get off their duff on think even care who is on their city Election Day- you either believe in a council or represents them on the pounty participatory democracy or you don't. board?" : What! can't figure out is what non-voters He also could have said "Or knows tell their children. Do they say it doesn't who any of them are?" ' matter? Do they tell them their vote wont The sad truth is mostpeople in this make a difference? Or do they tell them area don't know, and don't care to know the truth, which is they are just too lazy to anything about theft government - local, be a good citizen. county state or national. The proof is in the voting records, and flipping through I've really got to stop saying yes to those is enough to make me very every request, but it's too late to back out depressed. on my latest lapse in good judgment. And First, you should know that the people it's a cold and wet lapse, at that. who are registered to vote represent only Frequent readers will know I'm abig abdut half of those who are eligible to cast fan of the Special Olympics, and some of a ballot; the other half apparently can't you donated money just last month when even be bothered to take the 10 minutes I sheared off my beard to raise a little necessary to register. dough for the cause. I should have quit Those who do register appear on a while I was ahead, but no, I have to try database maintained by the county clerk and top that stunt with a plunge into Lake Among other information, it shows who Michigan on March 6, in Kane County is registekd and in what It's all part of a Special Olympics event, elections they have voted. Because these and the deal is real simple: you pledge lists are assembled by precinct, it's fairly money; I go jump in an icy lake. To spice easy to learn who votes and who doesn't. this up, I've challenged Dave Janusch of In case you're wondering, the answer is the St. Charles Police Department that I more don't than do. Which means the can raise more than he and his majority of registered voters choose ;o ' department can. Dave and several fellow stay home on Election Day. officers will be jumping in, too, so this is a The easy answer to my Mend's serious bet. question seems to be that very few people' Call or write me with your pledge, and care who represents them, no matter don't be stingy This may be your only what the governmental entity. To put the chance to see me take the flying leap whole matter in rough math, assume you've always wished for. - there are 200,000 people eligible to vote in • Bill Page lives in St. Charles and Kane County Assume 100,000 have writes about local issues on Thesday and registered. Only 40,000 of them will Thursday. Calls and e- mails answered at bother to vote in this primary. That means (630) 584-0809 or someone running for countywide office [email protected]. Crowded .. Firefighters Kane jail V;: in .Hinckley sees a bit: seekoflcof\. statiOn Of relief By Dan Waitt By William Presecky STAFF WRITER -. Thbune staff reporter RINCKLEY - Equipment storage, increased • The Kane County Board's 111±- - training requirements and logistics are among the ing of two public defendersElast issues driving the Hinckley Fire Department's year has expedited criminil request for more space in a March 16 referendum. cases, helpe& ease jail crowding Fire officials say the department has outgrown and saved the county about the outdated the 40-year-old station at 130 N. May $5,000 a day, the county's chiçf judge said Wednesday. St., and is renting space a half-block away. The Meeting with the. County•-: , department wants to bring all its equipment, offices Board's Judiciary Committep and training facilities under one root about a year after he gained àp The fire district-will ask voters to approve a proval to spend $102,000 in 03 property tax increase of about 11 cents per $100 of contingency funds for addit4o;- equalized assessed valuation. The owner of a house al public defenders, Kane Cp14- valued at $150,000 would pay an additional $56 a ty Chief Judge Philip DIMaIZO year in property taxes if the measure is approved. said the board's decision "We're not looking to build a Ta] Mahal," Fire cost-effective. eo;' That, said DiMarzio, is-?t4- Chief Jay Van Landuyt said; flected In the easing of the,ja1 The Hinckley Fire Protection District stores six crowding since the two new)a- vehicles in tandem fashion at the May Street torneys began work last Ap-it. station. The building originally was designed to Although not the only reason hold three trucks. for the decreased populatoi, The fire department leases space about a half- the court's increased abilit3c10 expedite cases for jailed defen- block north of the fire station to store a snorkel dants has helped stem cr6w4 truck, hold training classes and house Ing, he said. A decline in ftp administrative offices. crime rate also contributed, e. A private residence stands between the storage said. building and Hinckley Fire Station, which also The 400-bed Kane County Jap - houses firefighter's gear, hoses and emergency in Geneva routinely had a dJly equipment Inmate population of The department has acquired a 344-acre parcel on more a year ago, said DlMarzIq. Nàrth Sycamore Street that would allow for a new Since then, the daily populatiop station and forexpansion - something not feasible has declined and hovers around at the current site. 500, he said. DiMarzio said housing 10 "We want to plan and build for the future," said fewer inmates is saving th Joe Herrmann, emergency medical services county about $5,000 a day..-- coordinator for the department - He said the two public defen - The fire district serves about 2,500 people in a 65- ers that the board S authoriz.e4 square-mile area that includes the village of - are assigned to high-volume Hinckley, all of Squaw Grove Township and half of courtrooms that have a direct Pierce Township. impact on jail population. "I do not anticipate the down- Many state requirements for handling hazardous ward trend to continue," -said materials and procedures for cleanup didn't exist DiMarzio, noting that Jail over- - when the station was built, Van Landuyt said. There crowding is and willcontinuIp is no shower facility in the fire station, and the only be a problem that Kane must ad- decontamination device is a slop sink. . -. dress. Since there is no parking space on the station "We have done as much as property, firefighters must find spots along May can," he said. --• Street to park their cars when a call comes in. "The jail still far exceeds'.c- pacity" he said. Members of the team assigned to the snorkel truck DiMarzio told the committee must grab their gear in the main station and make to expect a request from the the half-block sprint up May Street to board that court next year for more judges truck and support staff. - - Fire district officials hope the required wording "We are stretched as thin on the ballot will not confuse voters. The ballot will we can be stretched," said 1)!- read: "Shall the extension limitation under the Marzio, now in the second year - property tax extension limitation law for the of 2-ye arterm as chief of the 16th Hinckley Fire Protection District be increased from Judicial Circuit. 2.4 percent to 60.264 percent for the 2003 levy year?" Larry Haler, chairman of the Friends of the Hinckley Fire District, said the group plans a door- to-door campaign on March- 6. - 2 Embarrassment of riches RecOrc& candidatej differ on how tti4 \LC&k ci to spend the offices money By GARRETT ORDOWER. DbHrSffJ2,/j money, in the automation With the flurryof housing fund to mesh activity during the past few the receiving years the Kane County systeniwith the recorder's office coffers have storage and grown to more than $1.86 mil. retrieval sys- lion, and one of the main I tems. He'd also responsibilities of the recorder Dan Don Sandy specialize will be spending it. Gurbal Rage Wegman employees and Every time the recorder's spend money backup systems, implementing on job training to make sure office receives a document, it a disaster recovery system an charges a $25 fee. Of that, $4 replacing current storage d data gets entered consistently goes to an automation fund for terns. Sys and correctly. Gurbal doesn't have any esti- improving the functioning of the Wegman balks at spending 'a office. 1 U mates as to how much his With 233,000 documents ithe money just because it's objectives would cost, but he there, but she said if she ha(I said working with the consul- processed last year and a six- Imown about the increase ii week lag time before certain documents she would hav i tants who developed the storage: records can be accessed, none of and retrieval systems woukd 1()udgeted cloer to $1.5 millior1 shed light onthat the three candidates for the GOP rather than $1.2 million. nomination disputes that the Rage, on the other hand, I'm not going to stock up orI wants an entirely new software office can be improved. omputers here because we But the incumbent and her ILave the money," Weginan said. system to be used with the exist- two challengers differ on how it ing hardware so that it cax should be done, Technology changes tooI quickly turn entered documerts": uickly for that." into retrievable documents, He The automation find needs to One of the largest investments be spent, candidate Don Rage of the office recently has been a also thinks the system can be said, so that the office can cut n.ew "cashiering system," where hooked up with the individual down the amount it collects d assessor's offices to speed up the from property taxes and aocurnents are entered in part tax cycle. soon as they are received. "What we have to look at is increase efficiency through the But that very system is what Purchase of new technology It technology changes day by day age and candidate Dan Gurbal and how we can make this He notes the recorder's office b oth have the most problems underestimated the amount it with. quicker, more efficient and would collect in fees by $1.65 reduce the cost of operating the million last year, causing the s The main problem, Gurbal office," Rage said. Lid, lies with the receivin He also wa county to ask taxpayers for more syrstem not being integrate nts records to be than it needed. w accessible to the public over the ith the storage and retrieval Internet. Rage said that in talk- "That's the only office that systems, which receive acclaim helps find other offices in the fu)m those who, like him, use ing with consultants he believes county" Rage said. th the software for this project can em every day be paid forwith less than 20 per- Recorder Sandy Wegman said Information entered inconsis- that during her first three years teiitly by employees who aren't cent of the $1.86 million in the in the role the office spent pri automation fund. almost its entire automation thiDperly trained for the systems He would spend the rest on y're using is also part of the terminals for the system at each budget but that the increase in problem, Gurbal said, along documents recorded from tvii assessor's office and a new scan- th not verifying the inlonna- ning machine. 90,000 in 2000 to 233,000 last ho:U. year could not have been pre- "That would be very nice, but dicted. 'The financial quality of the its not going to happen," Gurbal re destate records is in jeop- The office must work out its ard said of the integrated system. budget six months in advance of 11thly," said Gurbal, who runs a Wegman also disagrees with knowing its revenues, Wegnian do] research business. "TI things Rage's plan for an entirely new said. ri't change at the recorder's system. ce, I'll have to change my line "I'm not going to replace an She has plans to spend about of work because of the liability $1.2 million of the automation tha entire system when we have a fund on upgrading servers and C comes with those errors." new one in place," Wegman urbal would spend the said. -a

Boil order: Elburti resider ts Review is - to see more savings - - - on radium removal. -. By DAN CHAI'JZIT - cents per 1,000 gallons of water By Dave Pane Kane county Chronicle treated. - -STAFF WRITER - - - That is about $97,000 per .AURORA—Astudy of the city's • ELBURN - Residents will year based on Elburn's annual *ater contamination and subse- see an even lower watei rate hike water use of 116 million gallons, he villages ongoing - - village oth- 4uent boil order will review Auro- ause of t :' - -cialssaid. ru's findings to make sure they are analysisofzcolitefllter5tor - WIlT'S complete and stand up to technical moverathum from Elburnb 1 , -- water - - - - method in- - scrutiny. - - On Monday, trustees agreed ' - - - volves send-water The independent review, to be - topayupfront about $SSOM0OIn .-. I lug done by Weston Solutions for construction costs. In doing- so, - through pipes around $10,000, will be discussed thevillagewillflotbavet0fr - and- filters and voted on today by the City - nancethethiprovemen- - made of the Council. The scope of work will in- - The savings could - be be - - - - mineral zeo- - clude a review of Fox River and - -Jween $40,000 and $60,000 per rim Radium is treatment plant waterquality data,- - -year.vlllageofficialssaid- - -Willey anppedbythe as well as looking at the operational - -- The savingwotddbepassed aide of the plant. - on to Elburniesidents through Em'sfldiUmloveiisabout - Weston will also review and com- - - smallerwateriatehilcea - 20 picocurries per liter, which is ment on Aurora's findings, conclu- - -- "I think we did the right thing well above thellpAh5picocuflies - - sions and recommendations. -' - for Elbum,' Village President per liter limit In addition to the review of city - - Janies Willey said. 'There were In July 2003, a test run by - significant savings." WET lowered the village's radium data, Weston Solutions will also try less than 1Pic0ihumflhP& to answer a list of questions submit- - -RemovIng -radium from lev&to ted by aldermen. Many of them ------drinldng water is a mandate by liter. - the Illinois Environmental WET Vice President Ron came from constituents, including Protection Agency, which re- Dollar said his company's busi- community groups and organiza- quixes all municipalities to corn- ness is booming now that more :uons and Wathtommitta ply with new water quality stan- communities ale aware of there- "the questions that have come in - - dards, - - movaiprocess. - -- from the aldermen tend to be re- - Radium is a naturally occur-- "With aew-technology, most .dundant," said Alderman Chris ring radioactive material found municipalitie s 1wcon5e cSeykirch, chairman of the City inmostdeepwellsarOundnorth the." Dollar said. 'A number of people take a wait-and-see atti- --Council Buildings, Grounds andman- In- emillinois. - :frasthlthllt Committee. "the After considering - several tude? - - 'her of questions to answer really - methods, the village last month In 1976; the federal goverli- aren't all that broad." decided to hire Colorado-based Among the most common ques- Water Romediation Technology Water. Act but radium restric- dons are: - to implement a zeolite filtering dons did not' take effect until . What was the cause of bacteria process. . l991 and 1996. 'Contamination? - - The cost to the village will be Municipalities technically ;. Where did the high levels of am- about $1.15 million, down from havebeen in violationsince then, monk in the Fox River come from? - estimates ashighas$9millionfor but theAhS not eiIf0tht various. other radium removal regulations. . -- - -werethey natural or the result of ii- - - Also on MoPday, village legal dumping? methods. - - - - - :u How do other water treatment - - - - Last year, Elbum officials se- trustees discussed switching plants, such as the one in Elgin, • . riously considered using - a fromquomoflthPtr - method called ion exchange billing.- :handle the same contamination Themethodwsdhavecost - "(Residents) are asking for challenges? What might they be - -- roughly $4.5 million plus another monthly -billing," Village doing better than Aurora? - $S00,o0Ointhemimithst5o - Administrator David Morrison in Should Aurora change how it rou- plement.told trustees. - - tinely tests water samples? Should Residen& water rates will go. Making the switch would re- the treatment process be altered at - up to pay for the zeolite method, quilt a slight rate increase in ad- typomt? - butvillageoffidal5have declined dition to costs incurred to it. I How do we prevent this from hap- to release exact numbers until a movemdiun1MUtjustho41mUth perung again. contract Is worked out with WEE • tritS - Stephen Ryan, senior project Under the contract, the vil "Those costs could be rolled -manager with Weston Solutions, lage would pay WET about 49 Into thehblllCMorflsonsaid. said the effectiveness of the review will depend largely on how well the city has compiled data. Incomplete records will delay the review, which could be dane in as little as 21 days. Aurora water officials have been compiling data since the boil order was issued Feb. 6 and hope to finish their internal review this week. Ryan said his company's review will consider mechanical failures at the plant, Including the possibility of equipment malfunctions; and whether anything was done differ- ent than normal operationally, such as chemicals being added at the wrong time or in insufficient amounts. 6&(LI-CL( v&-ciJ'-y HerczOd V ., . Aurora ' .4o

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I : I o I i.tiiity C.) -- 0) c it 0 4) at $ BY DARRYL MELLEMA 0 Daily Hemid CnpondaU V 5 4) V 0 . . NôrthAutora's village board 'V 'd .c oCO 0 ensured that its road recon- -o struction program would have 0 C,, C) .,.-d full funding when it Monday 0 Ct approved a 1.5 percent tax on 0 village gas, electric and -0 Dale Berman Mark Ruby telecommunications utilities. 0 Gas and electric are currently g untaxed. Telecommunications estimated to be $396,000 per, 0 in the village is currently taxed year. -' Ct-- at 0.5 percent and this will be Put together with motor fuel p increased to 2 percent. Collec-. tax revenues and other funding .- o V tiorr of the tax is to begin sources, the village projects that C) immediately and last until April, it can now afford street recon- Os o . - a C) 2007. struction plans ranging from "This(tax) is designed so it $1.4 million t'o$2.6 million over Cz 2 c .5 can finance our road program the next 10 years. 4)4) 4-4 and keep it going with other Village engineer Jim Bibby 0 financial resources," Mayor said Mondays action solves the 0

Mark Ruby said. "And it is, village's longstanding problem 0 designed to fade away." in catching up with its rapidly C C) 0 Trustees Max Herwig, John deteriorating streets. o.i t -Hansen and Paul Shoemaker This year's list of 2004 road joined Rubyin voting for the projects was also approved at C) I CC) tax. Mark Guethie and Dale Monday's 'meeting. These pro- "bi V 0 Berman, voted against the jects. . include Adams' 'Street t . increase. between Oak Street and John Co I Actual impact on each resi- Street, along with the entirety of I dent was left unknown, partly Lynn Street, Farview Street and because area utilities had not Hillside Street responded by Monday to board The list of proposed recon- inquiries about their current struction projects increases in revenues, Hansen said. Hansen coming years under a plan pre- prepared the figures the board viously approved by the board. used in making its final.deci- "Without this, we would sionh nevercatch up,". Bibby said. "We The village projects $280,500 have large subdivisions that per yeajr. in utility tax revenue. 'need to be done in their entirety The village will also allocate :30 Athg after' 2008-09."' percent of $1 million projected 7 e boardJar soüghtto solve auto mall revenue to street con- f .Its gest budgetary struction. In addition, all issues, the village is moving revenue generated by the vil- closer to finding a village lage's 0.5 percent sales tax will be applied to the project. This is See TAX on PAGE 7

Bill Oh ran ic(f Page Politics, pets and, subtle threats • Three weeks from today is the primary taken that final walk with the little plastic election, and with it the first stage of this bag— and presumably your kids now year's political marathon will end. What have one more reason to contest your will. started as early as last June will be. As I said, I never realized this was a winnowed down to the two major party problem, but apparently there's just a candidates who'll face each other in the whole bunch of pet owners who wanted November generalelection.• this legislation. And there was absolutely Ther&s little mystery who'll be the no opposition to the bill either; it sailed Democratic candidates, but that's not so flucnigh both houses in record time. on the Republican side. Nowhere is this It's sure nice to see our elected officials truer than in the battle for the Republican spending their time on pressing issues nomination for Kane County state's like this, instead of wasting their days on attorney. the state budget, the health-care crisis or Although there are four men rUnning underfunded schools. I'm glad they can for the Republican nomination—: John come together to ensure that Grandma's Barsanti, Tim O'Neil, Mike Leuer and Joe gerbils will always be well cared Rago - for, even in reality the contest is between if they don't seem as concerned for her Barsanti and O'Neil. They are the two . grandchildren. who've lined up the endorsements, * * * whove raised the money and who have the best organizations. They also are well- referendumThe effort is well to pass under the wayschool in Geneva, respected by people in the criminal justice system and.have deep connections threatsand with and it oddcomes "facts." the first of the subtle to the community. All of which ironically creates a huge problem for manyvoters. 'be canceledThere already if the referendum is a list of programs doesn't to The.Milemma facing Republican voters, pass, with special education singled out .onMaich 16 is that both Barsanti and O'Neil are well qualified for the job, and for some reason. What a nice touch— and choosing one over the other is extremely totally uncalled fon if the referendum is difficult. good for the community then proponents the election,With this just race a few has weeks no clear left.before leader should stick to that positive message. and looks to be a nail-biter all the way to Threatening to cut programs for the the end. most helpless of the students is no way to The difference between the two - and build support. there is a difference - is not in qualifica- The odd fact being presented is that tions but in how each will run the office. the present site of Geneva's middle school • Barsanti and O'Neil have distinctly is 'centrally located." This is part of the • different management styles and push to build the second middle school prosecutorial priorities. Each also has his on the same campus, which may or'may own reorganization plan, so no matter not be a great idea, but claijning that the which candidate wins, major changes far western part of town is "central" loom on the horizon for the deparinient: stretches credulity. This is too tough a race to handicap I'm sure the folks who live east of the beCause Barsanfi and O'Neil match up so river, as used to being ignored by the well with qualifications and experience, powers-that-be in Geneva as they are, and either one would make a good states would disagree with the "centrally attorney. My prdiction that is the winner located" assessment as would anyone is decided by less than 300 votes— andl looking at a map.. have no clue which way those votes will Again, a positive message devoid of fall. ' ' ' hyperbole and threats will go a lot farther * * * . with voters than what's being put out in Under the heading of "I didn't even Geneva today. know it was 'a problem," comes the news • Bill Page lives in St Charles and that our state lawmakers have cleared the writes about local issues on Tuesday and way for people to set up trust funds for Thursday. Calls and e-maiLc answered at their pets. Now Fido and Spot can be (630) 584-0809 or guaranteed their kibble long after you've [email protected]. Kane closer to higher cleik fee By'I'OMSCHLUFItR' Kane County Chionide LJ

GENEVA - The Public I Service Committee voted Monday to hise Kane Countyfl j clerk fees, including the cost of certified copies of marriage, birth and death certificates. Certified copies of vital C) records currently cost $5. The fee increase would raise the, cost of birth and marriage certificates to $11 and death certificates to $13. The fee for vital records copies includes $2 for the clerks - automationfund. If approved by the county board the fee increase would help bring revenue in line with the cost of providing the service. However, some committee members see the move as an- other tax increase, John Noverini, R-Carpentersvik said the fee in- crease is unnecessary because the county ended 2003 with $3 million more than it expected. Noverini said taxpayers get hit twice, once when they pay theft property taxes and again when they pay the fees. The main reason for the counWs higher-than-projected revenues in 2003 came from the plethora of homeowners who re- financed their home mortgages because of low interest rates, County Clerk John Cunningham said. Jack Cook RElgin, said the county cannot count on "found revenue' in the future. The fee increase proposal was initiated by Cunningham, who commissioned a study of the fees charged and the work in- volvedin performing the services forwhich fees are charged. Issuing certified copies of vital records, such as death, mar- riage and birth certiflcates;can- cehng tax sales and issuing cer- tificates of redemption brought in $361,037 in revenue last year, but cost the county clerks office in staff time $783,843. The study found the greatest disparity between the service cost and fee income is in cancel- tax sales. The ountycliarges T1 fee, and the paperwork in- volved costs the county in staff time $69.31. H I M -2941AH M^ fi q •flj '.IIIui hiJHllf! 0: I1PI4tI V ndq 884W. Jfl • H •S — p hI • Ofr .0id C,)ft In ttQ•C) Hit) w H —0 IJh D8 p f- • I - n6-E1fltid a e = g.6ft8w QX a C,) .0 H°ffiI_1gb. I!z C) E ft2

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• By William Prisecky •now"to settle onaupgradedsys- Tribune staff reporter tern and develop a plan for secu- ring the adthtiotial money to Although the November 2006 pay for it. general elëtion is a long way : Cunningham said legislation off, Kane County's chief elec- is pending that would allow nil- tion official called on cdunty nois counties to levy a special commissioners Monday to be- property tax to be used solely to gin immediately to respond to a cover election costs. Its fate was federal mandate to upgrade the uncertain, however, he said. voting system with the next two He said he will suggest that years. . . the County Board earmark $1. Ah estimated $683,000 in fed- nñllioff of a projected $3.5 mu eralassistance is expected tote lion budget surplus for 2003 bud- available to Kane to help it sup- get to upgrade the voting sys- plant its current punch-card tern. system With technology such as "We're forced to do it," Cun- optical-scan voting, said County ningham said. "I'd like to start Clerk John "Jack" Cunning- as quickly as possible.'! • ham. But an additionalwill $2 mil- Meanwhile, the Public Ser- lion to $4 million be needed . vice Committee recommended to complete the upgrade, he that Cunningham allowed to said. . . increase the fees his office "It's not good news, but it's charges. • . something we are going to have The aim of the proposed in- to do," he said while making a creases, which Cunningham request that a special sub com- said are projected to raise an ad- • inittee be formed to work with thtional $250,000 to $300,000 an- him to assist the change. nually, is to bring the fees for "We're a little behind the rest marriage licenses and birth cer- ofthe collar counties" in corn- tificates, for example, closer to plying with the federal Help what it costs to issue them. America Vote Act of 2002, Cnn- A marriage license would.be • ningham told the board's Public increased to $18 from $15, under Service Committee. the proposed fee schedule. A re- With no apparent source of cent fee study calculated that revenue available to under- the actual cost to the clerk's of- write the cost, Cunningham fice to issue an . original mar- said, "We should start moving riage license is $19.07. O t fl± Ca 0 t)tO td' U, 0. .— • Ca • Er2 ?42 n 10 Ca Cat - a4 C cia Ctt..c.-- to .0 ,D flfll - a .•ct_ h mr I - i• : -OaaOt#flI-. t l U, -8a 0 C5 CO • t,..0 q bo ci -o 0.0 aoa .-u2 C Q 0 • = ttInta O.CN = ri Ca I-

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Ig County approves plan for facility for special-needs children Raymond Road L and Dugan Road of to allow the children to enjoy the ne Retreat would which 43 acres would be devoted, to res- rural. atmophere of Kane County," he idential use said be built in Big Rock McCannon told members of the McCannon proposesa change in Development Committee members that zoning from farming to planned unit ... : his daughter is a special-needs child development: ai ir ByTOM SCHLUETER who attends Little Friends School in The concept plan stage is the first hi Kane County Chronicle . Naperville. . . . step in the development process. His goal is to provide a similar facil McCannon will provide more, detail 51 GENEVA - ai County officials have ap ity on McCannon Farm Acres in his proposal when it reaches the pre rr proved a concept plan for aresidential . feer in some way that we can liminary plan stage. gi retreat in Big RockTownshipforspecial- give babk to the community," McCannon described bi g plan as •...... st needs children. . McCannon said. "These are all special being "a facility for recreational and 10 Ted McCannon wants to develop 59 needs children therapeutic programs for people with nE acres at the northwest corner of The purpose of the farm would be unique needs al to tAT.

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By Jan Ramming Much of the McCannon farm in Big Rock SPECIAL TO THE BEACON NEWS Township is likely to be a housing develop- BATAVIA -The city will host two CAI ment, but Ted McCannon has other ideas for public meetings this week at City Hall. the 5.45-acre farmstead itself. McCannon proposes At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, there will be a to create a new recreational, therapeutic and resi- Special City Council meeting with a public dential home for special-needs children. The facility heating regarding the proposed thin! Tax Increment Financing district for the city. would be supported by future private endowments, The district would be established including one from the McCannon family, together to cover downtown areas not cur- with federal and state funding. Kane County officials rently within the existing TIF dis- have been encouraging about the project, and we tricts. The new district would be set add our THUMBS UP. up primarily to promote redevelop- It's hard to imagine a more meaningful and generous initiative from a private cit- ment and growth in old industrial izen. sections of the city south of Wilson Street. Thursday, the Kane County Divi- sion of Transportation is having a pub- Child Advocacy Center merits approval lic information meeting. Residents are After almost a 10-year effort, and with funding invited to review the county'sroadway çr'% improvements study for Fabyan Park- from three grants already lined up, Kane way from Western Avenue to Kirk County will be able to build a new Child Advo- Road. cacy Center in Geneva. A new design by architect Two meeting times are scheduled: Terry Adams has addressed concerns of the Geneva 5:30 to 7 p.nl. for residents of areas lo- Historic Preservation Commission. The CAC hous- cated west of the Fox River; and 7:30 to 9 p.m. for those east of the river. es offices for state's attorneys who prosecute sexual Residents are invited to come in at abuse cases, and is designed to be a comfortable en- any point during their meeting times to vironment fof the children who are brought there review exhibits and discuss the project for interviews. We give our THUMBS UP to the plans with county staff. for this valuable facility; and urge the Geneva City Staff members from The Kane Coun- Council to approve the needed zoning. ty Division of Transportation and their consulting engineering firm will be available to answer questions. The county is proposing changes to Fabyan to improve safety and traffic flow. One alternative that is being eval- uated is to widen Fabyan to provide a center turn lane. New traffic signals are being pro- posed for intersections at Van Nortwick Avenue, Allen Drive, Nagel Boulevard and Kingsland Drive. The county also is proposing to dose public access to Fabyan at the in- tersections of Carriage Drive, mona Road, Surrey Road and Heather Lane. Sugar Grove continues to expand Supermarket could months, the village is expected to release results of a study evaluat- 'N be next addition ing the village's water needs. Sugar Grove is also in the process of updating its compre- By Linda (lirardi hensive land use plan. SPECIAL TO THE BEACON NEWS "Its really the backbone for fu- ture planning," Michels said. SUGAR GROVE — Significant Michels said the village is also progress in commercial develop- hoping for passage of a federal ment and plans to upgrade water transportation bill that would pro- services are all in this village'shi- vide funding to widen Route 47. tore in 2004. "In anticipating the amount of Construe- development coming in and - don has start- around Sugar Grove, we're devot- ed behind Vil- ing considerable time on a trans- lage Hall for portation plan so we have major, tt Sugar Grove's collector roads to handle the traf- : second deep fic," he said. well, provid- And Sugar Grove will continue I ing residents to see new residential growth. • with quality Settler's Ridge, a 1,200-acre par- drinking cel located south of the village and Sugar Grgvevjl- water, on the east side of Route 47, is in lage President Village the development phase. On the President Sean Michels President west side of Route 47 and south of MichOls Prairie Street, developers have ac- says the infrastructure improve- quired 900 acres for another new ments are significant subdivision. Not only will the well place Michels said the village has an Sugar Grove within state Environ- estimated 2,500 acres of residen- mental Protection Agency regula- tial development in the planning tions but it will also provide quali- stage, which at total build-out will ty drinking water. The ion-ex- mean an additional 5,000 homes change system would remove nat- in the community. urally occurring radium from the Sugar Grovels awaiting certifi-, public water supplies and soften cation of a 2003 special census what typically can be hard water. placing the village's population at "This has been part of our mas- 6,000. ter plan for the village's water sys- 'We've heard from commercial tem," Michels said, adding a developers that with the quality of $300,000 federal grant through the new homes, the village can an- House Speaker Dennis Hastert's ticipate significant retail in the office will partially fund the pro- near future," Michels said. ject To this end, plans for a Jewel, We will be able to make the supermarket were to come be- improvements without increasing fore the village's Plan Commis-: residential water rates," Michels sion this month. The grocery1 said. chain has targeted the northeast The collection of developer im- corner of Galena Boulevard and pact fees have also made it possi- Route 47. ble for the village to make the cap- "We're excited about this. Resi- ital improvement investments,. dents we hear from really want to I Michels said. be able to shop locally," Michels • Within the next couple of said. split on impact fee .piáñ

By LISA SMITH won't be higher in the Th-Cities "If they (businesses) don't have Daily Herald Staff Writer than other areas." the money or the impact fees, Davoust suggested perhaps they -can go somewhere else," Most of the Republican candi- more research could have been Perrone said. dates for seats on the Kane done to minimize the disparity. But Van Cleave called on the Counts' Board agree with the "It may have needed a little board to revisit the formula used current board's assertion that more work done with a focus on to develop the impact fee. making developers fund road trying to make it a little more. "It's just flat out unfair," he projects is a good idea equitable," he said. "You have to said. "I still don't have an under- What they can't agree on is draw a line somewhere." standing on why they made it so. how to do that. But Davoust also acknowl- different from community to Mark Davoust and Arney Sil- edged that he has .not done community" vestri, who are vying to represent enough research to suggest a Cvek brought the issue bèfrjre the portion of St. Charles and viable alternative to the plan, the Batavia chamber, which Geneva townships that make up which Tti-Cities mayors have passed a resolution opposing the the 14th District, said the fee threatened to challenge in court. impact fee. structure approved by the coun- Silvestri criticized how county "I.think the ordinance that ty board in January punishes the officials divided land based on, you've seen approved sets the 'Ri-Cities because developers planning areas that were not precedent for bad public policy- would pay more to build-there intended to serve as the basis for making," Cvek said. than in Aurora or Elgin, for applying transportation fees. Incumbent county board example. He suggested road specific member Jack Cook, who repre- The disparity results frOm a divisions so that, for example, sents northeastern Elgin in complicated formula that takes Randall Road developers would District 20, voted with the major- into account road usage and be charged the same amount ity to approve the new fee location, distance traveled and throughout the Pox Valley structure. development cost. because that particular corridor He said charging developers keeps the burden off taxpayers. ty "It creates competition is prime real estate. e between communities," said Sil- They (county board mem- "It's better forthe developers it vestri, a custom home builder bers) need to go back and look at to pay, or thell just take all their n who lWes in St. Charles. "That's the application of the formula," money and run," Cook said. hot good for development. We're Silvestri said. Cook said construction of new all in Kane County together Candidates for District 10, houses will have a significant here." which includes much of Batavia impact on area roads so "it's .11 A disparity might be inevitable Township, were divided on the almost essential" that developers regardless of what formula is issue. contribute to maintaining them. Is used, suggested Davoust, vice Both Tom Van Cleave, presi- Cooks challenger in the pi- president of Bras'el Products, a dent of the Batavia school board, mary race, Larry Wegman of cohesive gauze manufacturing and Anthony Cvèk, legislative Elgin, could not be reached for company based in Batavia. liaison for the Batavia Chamber comment Friday.\ w "1 would have liked to have of Commerce, criticized the fee But in a previous interview he seen it come out so the Th-Cities structure, while Joseph Perrone, said county and municipal offi- didn't quite carry as much of the transportation manager at a cials should continue evaluating is brunt of it," said Davoust, who Lombard trucking company, the system. lives in St. Charles Township. supports it "But even if we were able to Ferrone said it might slow • Daiky Herald staff writers Gala devise a more equitable scheme, down commercial growth, which Pierre and Tom O'Konowitz con- that doesn't mean (the fees) he views as a good thing. tributed to this report

I - Rauseheriberger's earned our vote myself, I have gown increasingly To impressed with hisviable the Editor: solutions to complex problems. In any election, it's godd to Perhaps one Of his have a choice. This, year, there are "endorsements" should be that some good people running fOr George Ryan banned.hith.frOm. U.S. Senatorfor the State of the governor's mansion because • Illinois. he challenged the governor's Among thein are millionaires misuse of our tax dollars. Today; and business people with no that stands as quite a • legislative Speriencé; well compliment. meaning and used to controlling Steve has unmatched their own destiny. It gives them a experience as Chairman of the visible level of self-confidence. Appropriations Committee for There's also one proven Illinois' multi-billion dollar Republican legislator who has budget. We need a-true conquered the challenges of conservative with his understanding complex public incomparable budgçt savvy in issues, negotiating positive Washington. solutions and leading legislators At such a crucial time for our to agreement. Hisconfidence nation, we can't afford to rely on comes from yearsof serving an inexperience and promises to: entire state's destiny: -battle the demailds and Like the other candidates, complexities ofWashington. Steve. Rauschenberger speaks. There will be many expensive with conviction and confidence. ads and commercials that hope to But unlike the other candidates, convince us they have what Steve. he also speaks with avital' Rauschenberger has already combination of intense legislative demonstrated. Steve's popularity experience, seasoned wisdom - comes frOm his hard work, his and hard-earned respect for his integrity and his skills in leading proven track record as our State our state, not from his checkbook Senator. Steve has the legislative: Steve has delivered what experience, maturity and balance others can only hope to deliver. that will serve us well in Steve has already earned the Washington. He's battle-tested r widespread support of other and he's earned widespread .s Illinois lawmakers who know the respect for his experienced, demands of leadership and have insightful leadership; seen his wise and reasoned action He's also earned our vote. • firsthand. His endorsements from We need Steve • other knowledgeable public Rauschenberger its our next U.S. • servants continue to accumulate. Senator. 1. . As an elected county official Dan Walter Kane County Board Representative South Elgin Q:k ronC

PAGE 4A MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23,2004 Lc Gold Star for understanding FPAS Anyone who actually read. history, but no one has de- the story out of the Kane County cided if they're worth spending Development Committee on six-figures on, especially when Feb. 18 about "facility plan7 Notebook toilets are falling off walls with ning areas" all the way some of it. It seemed no one jurors sitting on them. through gets a gold star was happy when it Was all overt A municipality's.FPA is the If the lEPA agrees, théic- Jack Cook, R-Elgin,re- chunk of land it controls to don by the committee just cently was presented with a provide drinking Water and Opened the doors to 100,000 15-year Service Award by the sewer services to itscitizens new residents into those four Illinois Association of Park yawn, right? communities. Districts and Forest Preserves.' - Those residents who • Watch for more FPA sto- • Cook became forest pre- shudder at the thought of ries corning in the future. serve president in 1993, where every major roadway in the he served for eight years. county being congested, of Judge Michael Colwell's Cook was president at the another 300,000 residents in concerns about the historic time the 1999 $70 million Kane County and the idea of Third Street courthouse are open-space referendum citizens trying to pay to keep well taken. The old building is passed by a two-to-one mar: the criminal justice, system, showing its age and the me- gin which has led to the dis- the school systems and every chanical areas of the building trict adding more than 4;000 other system in fairly decent have some catching up to do. acres to the system. Land that • working order would do well Colwell, like many in- was purchased met the re-. • to,pay attention. volved in thejudiciary would quirements of preserving na- • Eighty percent of the ex- like to see all the courts con- tive wetlands, woodlands and •pècted 300,000 new residents centrated at the Judicial prairies, expansion of existing • coming to the county in the Center, but that's not likely to preserves, flood control pro-, next 30 years will reside in the happen any time soon. tection and the acquisition of municipalities. To accommo- So, it means the old court- newpreserves..'. date all these new folks, most house needs to be kept up:. Cook also is the chairman of the towns and cities will When the courthouse of the Illinois Praine11ail have to expand their FPAS. opened in the 1892, it was the Authority a group charged with The Development pride of Geneva and the whole oversight to the Prairie Trails in Committee recommends for 'county. Folks don't get all Kane, DuPage, Will, Kendall and or against the requests, as misty eyed over public build- •McHenry counties. does the Northeast Illinois ings the way they once did. Planning Commission. The • Up near the top of the • Speakingof the $7omil- Illinois Environmental four-story atrium is one of the lion bond referendum, the Protection Agency makes the best-kept secrets in county bonds will be refinanced at a final decision. government There are hand- lower interest rate. The FPA requests from painted murals depicting District President John Hampshire, Huntley, Pingree scenes from all the county's Hoscheit said the refinancing Grove and Elgin last week townships. will save $1.77 million. comprised 20,000 acres and The countyboard has de- "It does not provide any was the largest single request bated back and forth whether money for the district, but (it ever in Kane County. The-com- to spend money on refurbish- will mean) a reduced levy to mittee approved of most of it ing the murals. They are a nice the taxpayers of Kane and recommended against little art treasure and a slice of County," Hoscheit said.

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The region's only new landfill opened In Joliet last month but is accepting trash solely from WlllCounty. - , - Kane County has been home - to large landfills since the early 1960s'when most of the areas garbage went to the Eight l2id- fill, the Tn-City Landfill and Woodiandl.andfill.All-three are now dosed, as Is Midway Land- fill, located ned to Settler's HAIL After Settlers 1-till closes, - county leaders say there will 4" not be a new local dump to S' ' replace it '. "We are getting out of the garbage business," Kane ft- CountyBoardChairmanMike McCoysalti. I instead,lCaneCOUfltyiSlOOk. - ingtowaidUansferstatiOnsiUu as other collar counties have • before it The next eitydump With a population of more JthanB million-in the Chicago .- region generating 67 percent of the states garbage.mllhions of • tons of trash are being sent out of the arm by way ofnearly transfer stations and thousands - -. - Kane County is home tothose a transfer stations today. and _2__-Af Harbaugh says leaders are encouraging more as the best The Settler's MIII Landfill in ng it method to keep costs down the Chicago area, will close bce. Without cheap access to region has about the years aeng nearby landfills, competition ducts more than two-thirdt C gion among transfer stations and the ve of private companies that operate At Elgin. and less deveiopeo areas. state them is the only way to slow for si heDuPage But even if enough transfer mice increases, county officials just Cou ,oil to corn- stations am approved and com' tmil' say. nsfer station petition remains healthy, prices .begs According to the Illinois EPA plait will rise. &here report,the Chicago region had inV iaulers want "Sooner or later they are 59 active transfer stations Ii centralizedgoing to raise theft rates," Hat- ecent moving 5.7 million tons of tran 1 areas near baugh said. "It's not going to be the. garbage in 2002. By compati- and lilsaretypi- seenln2007, but ldothirskyou local son, Settler's Hill Landfill ma) and built in are going to see it over time.' ill in accepted 1.3 million tons of can fill In gaztiagein2002. dfluin For example, if Onyx Waste ,'yside Services had a transfer station and Waste Management did ose in not, that could mean higher glon's prices for Waste Management losed. because of larger transportation le and expenses. years If one company had to raise rates to cover the increases, that to Ave could drive customers away. IM anew "lf they want tO double their new prices while the other doesn't o area theynre going to lose," liar- yruns bauglisa1d A That means more transfer stations in the suburbs. Today, Cook has 43 such stations, with rcr. Will and Lake counties being (j home to four each an ' McHenry County one. But building and running lt1 transfer stations represents yet more costs, And getting a transfer station aJ sited and built is arguably more difficult than alandifll. J Last year resident opposition ktss*i detailed a plan to build amans- I- iuprd ftW rJ I a? • fl Lei Ba, 00 0 g•g E°

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State grant .to aid. :Fabyän gaEage. preservation efforts By Rita Hoover • Staff writer 1tceflLLh(.4 CC/in The Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois announced recently that it has awarded a $5,00 Endangered Building Grant to the Friends of Fabyati preservation group to assist the effort to save the Fabyan garage, one of the last Original buildings on the Fabyan estate, now owned by the Kane County Forest Preserve Daitrict. The preservation council; which alsO has nominated the garage for its annual Ten Most Endangered Historic Places Program, issued a press release Feb.12 announc- ing the grant. H - "It's an important part of that site and Fm glad that it got the grant," said Jennifer Fisher, the council's direc- tor of preservation. Darlene Larson, a member - of Friends of Fabyan, said, "We are thrilled to get this --How to help- grant. It gives us the support To send pledges to - we need for the project." help save the Fabyari • Larson said her group has garage or for more received letters of support informatlon,yirlte to from the historical societies of Friends of fabyan, P.O. Box 801,Geneva,IL St. Charles, Geneva and- 60134,or u11232- Batavia, as well as the Geneva 2378. Garden Club and Garfield - Farm Museum. • Keith Coryell; executive director of the Geneva History Center, said the garage "poses an interesting question as -tc. whether it should be saved, but when viewed within the framework of the Fabyan complex, it certainly would be a shame to lose it." Coryell said the estate has already lost most of its original buildings. The Kane County Forest Preserve District, which owns about 245 acres of the estate of Col. George Fabyan and his wife, Nelle, is considering demolishing all or part of the garage, built in 1912: located on Route 31 in Geneva, just north of Fabyan Parkway. The build- ing once housed George Fabyan's automobile collection and provided chauffeurs quarters on the second floor. A combination workshop and pigeon coop is attached at the east end of the building. - In January, the Forest Preserve District Board gave the Friends of Fabyan until Mayto secure funds and apply for grants to pay for the building's restoration. An engineering firm hired by the board estimated the cost of restoration at more than $500,000, but Larson said that estimate is probably higher than necessary. The preservation group plans to get its own estimate, she said. According to • its Web site, the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois is considered the state's leading voice for historic preservation and has 2,000 members statewide. Each year, the council brings atten- tion to the-plight of historic landmarks by compiling a Ten Most. Endangered Historic Places Program, and the Fabyan. Garage is one of 35 historic places nominated for consideration: The list will be announced in March, said Fisher.

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IN BY CHRISTY GIJTOWSKI could boost There ale also, of course Herald Legal 4ffdt Mt horse farms and many other Daib rural Uses for land that don'tfit A coroner's jury ruled Thurs- Kane farms' the traditional image of Illinois day the death of eccentric Pox farmers. Valley resident Sebastian lcarsch I-lagemann said he doem't was an accident - bottom lines expect awiiolesale conversion of But prosecutors meanwhile Ron HagEmann has the seed farrnlandto field peas, which he approved more of an idea. said are in demand abroad. His - serious charges The one-time Hampshire company Risk Assurance - against a mall producer isn't out to upset the Programs CaLI.C, said field accused of dri- apple can of Illinois agriculture peas areindemandabroadas ving drunk - figuratively speaking, that is flour for snack food manufactur- 7 during the Nov. —but be believes that farmers ingorassplitpeasfordirectcon 11 crash that have moreweapons at their dis- gumption. According to the • kifledKarsch. posal than some might think. company, the bulls may besold fl Karsch died Hagemann's Rochelle-based forcattle feed, Sebastian of- traumatic firm announced this week that it t-inpemannsaid he's not ask- Karsch injuries after I has contracts with flilnois [aim- p ____ being struck at era to raise field peas for ex ort &36 p.m. while to Cuba. when Ispoke to him, he biking along said some of these contracts are North Avenue with Kane Qiuntyfamiem .,. west of Prince In essence field peas would Crossing near provide an early spring imp for ______West Chicago. harroem enabling them to have The driver, another cash crop for their land, ^^, ______Matthew Wise, 9 25 of Elgin had ortwo crops a year on the same land. mar's important, crop... lyOlt) are going wUYtLd Jse ew faced misde- - metinor Hagemannsaidinthesednysth little bit, and if works well for dninken driving charges. Which farm equipment and you, you are going to expand it," Prosecutors upgraded the other materials fanner's buy cost Hngemann said. charges to felony aggravated so much. 'lb contact I-lagemann, call DUI after they saidtests showed "We are at 15,000 to 20,000 (815) 561-9100: for information, he had a .126 blood-alcohol acres right now (in contracts)," check the Web site, wwwfocus- level - above the legal thresh- I-lagemann said. landmgmt.com. old of .08 - while driving home He added: "What we are •Roaldflaasercrhebusifless thatnight. doing is by utilizing the same editor. To contact him, aa11 (630) Wise, who posted a $500 equipment (twice) over the same 845-5348, or e-mail him at bond, does not have a criminal season .., it has a nice effect on thaase@kcciuo,lrcle.cOltL history. He declined to testily profitability" Thursday at the advice of his attorney, Bob Kieeman. Wise is expected to be arraigned Monday before DuPage Circuit Judge Michael to dir. He ac- Burke. If convicted, he faces a cool season probation or between the to 12 idhethinlcsit years in prisorL Icarsth, a 70-year-old St. Charle&man,-was well known for riding his bike with trailer in tow around the Pox Valley area the usual weather problems but He often collected boxcar also Intense development pres- loads of discarded goods. His sures—Hagemann said it penchant for junk sparked legal should have gaud results here battles because of large piles on "Up here, it's a phenomenal F his properties. aop"Hagemannsaid. Police often warned Icarsch-- against riding his bicycle on bristling, dimly lit streets. They had stopped him dozens of times, often prompted by calls from motorists. The night of the fatal crash was particularly foggy, officials said, and that stretch of the road didnothaveashoulder. 2O0q Ohifl'/cL Setting theSupports record straight Rauschenberger To the Editor: To the Editor: It appears the Kane County Government spending is out Chronicle is at it again: allowing incorrect and damaging of control. It's time we start voting statements to be made about in real fiscal conservatives and political candidates in Sound Off. voting out politicians who think For the record, Arney Silvestri, the future will take care of itself. candidate for county board in the That's why I am voting for 14th District, does not "build Republican State Sen. Steve subdivisions" as was claimed in a Rauschenberger for U.S. Senate. recent Sound Off (Feb. 7). Arney is When Sen. Rauschenberger says • homebuilder. He builds maybe he fights for lower taxes and less • dozen homes a year. I don't government waste, his record think that qualifies as a proves it. He has been on the subdivision; Appropriations Committee in the Arney is not a real estate mogul State Senate for nearly his entire or rich dewloper. He's a small' 11 years in Springfield. On businessman who works with his Appropriations; Sen.. hands, building homes. Most of Rauschenberger has worked hard the homes Silvestri builds, by the to streamline, simplify and shrink way, are built for families who• the state government. already live in the area, and are Sen. Rauschenberger moving to anew neighborhood. understands that when Again for the record, Silvestri's government wastes our dollars, it opponent in the primary, Mark hurts real people. He has worked Davoust, is also a homebuildeL for privatization and competition, He built a number of homes in and he has publicly challenged Batavia and even last year was politicians who take taxpayers for still at it, this time building a granted. home in Elburn. Why is Arriey's Please join me in voting for home-building business Sen. Steve Rauschenberger for considered an issue when U.S. Senate on March 16. Davoust's is not? It is the same thing, isn't it? William Keck Arney Silvestri has lived and Sugar Grove worked in the 14th District almost his entire life. He is well known and well liked by the many people who have watched him through the yeats. He has my support, and the support of voters who want a representative on the county board that truly knows the area and the issues affecting the 14th District. Kent Barrett St. Charles NOTICE OF GENERAL PRIMARY ELECTION

-. . Norke e!pe&ptceshiKei.Camco TUESDAY, MARCH IG,2004 . - The RepuNan and Donwat pales ml nontmth candidates tote tcloc*ig ot PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATE UNITED STATES SENATOR REPRZSEHTATM IN CONGRESS - 11TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT STATE SENATOR- 28th LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT , ...... 43'd, 4910 50th 55e', OP REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - ft 95th REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS aRcurl couFIT JuDGES- 16th JUDICIAL aRcurr COUNTY OFFICERS: AUDITOR .. .. • . COUNTY BOARD CHAIRMAN CLERK or THE clRcurrCOURT CORONER RECORDER STATES ATTORNEY COUNTY BOARD MEMBERS -DISTRICTS 2,4,8,I0,12,14,16,18, 20, 22, 24,26

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Order of Betel hi Preshleni al the tinted Slates, Untod Stales Seoxtor, Congreustonal offes. Dehigates end Alennato Delegates, State Sen-atone cod Repsexentaftees, County offices, Jud ottees, Prec*ictCanreoteemesi. tbmlcnfrnnnI40anb1OOpn

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