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Irongate plan faces many challenges Irongate, by the numbers 1,053: Single-family homes 458: Acres for the entire development 248: Townhouses 30 to 34: Acres dedicated to park district 23 to 24: Acres dedicated to the school district 19: Acres dedicated to senior housing Sources: ShoDeen Construction, DeKalb Park District
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Developer must balance wishes of 3 government bodies By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The Irongate housing development proposal has been a juggling act for ShoDeen Construction President Dave Patzelt. “It’s a difficult process,” Patzelt said, who has to cater his development to the requests of the DeKalb
City Council, DeKalb School District 428, and the DeKalb Park District. Ultimately, it’s the DeKalb aldermen who will decide the future of a new residential community with more than 1,000 new homes at the corner of Bethany Road and First Street, just north of DeKalb High School. Six aldermen need to vote “yes” on annexation, and the neighborhood cannot be built unless it’s annexed into DeKalb. One of the key issues in any annexation agreement are impact fees. The city’s development code contains an ordinance dictating
Hunt for ex-cop goes on amid Calif. snowstorm By GREG RISLING and TAMI ABDOLLAH The Associated Press
BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. – All that was left were footprints leading away from Christopher Dorner’s burned-out pickup truck, and an enormous, snowcovered mountain where he could be hiding among the skiers, hundreds of cabins and dense woods. More than 100 officers, including SWAT teams, were driven in glass-enclosed snow machines and armored personnel carriers to hunt for the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of going on a deadly rampage to get back at those he blamed for ending his police career. With bloodhounds in tow, officers went door to door as snow fell, aware to the reality they could be walking into a trap set by the well-trained former Navy reservist who knows their tactics and strategies as well as they do. “The bad guy is out there, he has a certain time on you, and a distance. How do you close that?” asked T. Gregory Hall, a retired tactical supervisor for a special emergency response team for the Pennsylvania State Police. “The bottom line is, when he decides that he is going to make a stand, the operators are in great jeopardy,” Hall said. As authorities weathered heavy snow and freezing temperatures in the mountains, thousands of heavily armed police remained on the lookout throughout California, Nevada, Arizona and northern Mexico. Police said officers still were guarding more than 40 people mentioned as targets in a rant
they said Dorner posted on Facebook. He vowed to use “every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordinance and survival training I’ve been given” to bring “warfare” to the LAPD and its families. At noon, police and U.S. Marshals accompanied by computer forensics specialists served a search warrant on his mother’s house in the Orange County city of La Palma. Dorner’s mother and sister were there at the time, and a police spokesman said they were cooperating. The manhunt had Southern California residents on edge. Unconfirmed sightings were reported near Barstow, about 60 miles north of the mountain search, at Point Loma base near San Diego and in downtown Los Angeles. Some law enforcement officials speculated that he appeared to be everywhere and nowhere, and that he was trying to spread out their resources. For the time being, their focus was on the mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles – a snowy wilderness, filled with deep canyons, thick forests and jagged peaks, that creates peril as much for Dorner as the officers hunting him. Bad weather grounded helicopters with heatsensing technology. After the discovery of his truck Thursday afternoon, SWAT teams in camouflage started scouring the mountains. As officers worked through the night, a storm blew in, possibly covering the trail of tracks that had led them away from his truck but offering the possibility of new trails to follow.
See POLICE SHOOTING, page A7
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Members on the California Highway Patrol search a truck Friday for Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer accused of carrying out a killing spree because he felt he was unfairly fired from his job in Big Bear Lake, Calif.
how impact fees are paid to other units of government. Impact fees are payments developers make to a unit of government to cover the estimated cost of public infrastructure in a new neighborhood, such as roads and street lights. DeKalb’s ordinance allows the developer to pay the school and the park districts in both cash and land. City Manager Mark Biernacki said the complicated formula for calculating how much in impact fees is owed includes the number of units in the development and a set value of the land. Irongate is still in the planning stages, but the school district
is looking to acquire land from ShoDeen, while the park district is looking for land and cash. Patzelt said his current discussions with the school district would have them acquire 16 acres north of DHS, and another seven or eight acres within Irongate for a future elementary school. Cindy Capek, the park district’s executive director, said the district is entitled to 48 acres in Irongate. About 30 to 34 acres would become park space, with the park district receiving cash for the remaining acres.
See IRONGATE, page A7
JOSEPH GLIDDEN’S LEGACY
Kyle Bursaw – kbursaw@shawmedia.com
Marcia Wilson, executive director at the Joesph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center, gives a media tour of the homestead and welcome center Wednesday.
Glidden Homestead to celebrate inventor of barbed wire By STEPHANIE HICKMAN shickman@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The story behind Joseph F. Glidden’s life is one many people don’t know. But it’s a story those at the Joseph F. Glidden Homestead love to tell. Born Jan. 18, 1813, the “Father of Barbed Wire” moved from New England to DeKalb in 1842 with aspirations of becoming a farmer. He built a log cabin on the property that Burger King now occupies at 913 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb. In 1861, Glidden built the historic home that now sits at 921 W. Lincoln Highway. “The fact that this site has been preserved is just short of a miracle,” said Marcia Wilson, the homestead’s executive director. The Joseph F. Glidden Homestead will celebrate the life and accomplishments of one of DeKalb’s greatest innovators at its annual meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at the site’s Welcome Center, 921 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb. Glidden would be 200 years old if he were alive today. Glidden and his wife, Lucinda, only lived in the house, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, until the 1870s.
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A Glidden family tree is on display at the Joesph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center. From that time until 1998, many of Glidden’s relatives occupied and preserved the house. The last Glidden to live there was Joseph’s great-niece, Jessie. Behind the house sits the barn where Glidden manufactured his invention of barbed wire, which was
patented in 1874. Wilson said many farmers had issues keeping their livestock fenced in at that time. The only fencing options were unreliable wooden fences or stone fences that were unique to certain areas. “We don’t realize how important he was in the
farming industry at the time,” Wilson said. Before his death in 1906, Glidden had a hand in just about everything in town. He gave the right of way to the railroad system to come through town, he published the Daily Chronicle for eight years, and he donated the first 65 acres to Northern Illinois University’s now 756 acre campus. Wilson said Glidden was definitely one of the earliest developers of the city of DeKalb.“He just touches kind of every corner of the community,” she said. Glidden’s legacy continues in DeKalb today. Jessie Glidden’s niece, Sarah Glidden DeMink of Downers Grove, and nephew, Richard Glidden of St. Anne, are both members of the homestead’s board of directors. Wilson said the board plans to expand the homestead and open more of the home’s rooms to the public in the future. Grants from Northern Illinois Antiques Dealers Association and Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association are helping them cover those expenses.
See GLIDDEN, page A7
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