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WELCOME BACK NIU names police chief Downtown DeKalb prepares for annual Corn Fest
Tom Phillips starts Sept. 16; has worked for 2 universities By JILLIAN DUCHNOWSKI
About Tom Phillips
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Anthony Zukauski (top) and Kristie Porretta of Windy City Amusements assemble the Zipper ride in the Ellwood parking lot Wednesday morning in DeKalb ahead of this weekend’s Corn Fest. Zukauski has assembled and operated the ride for 12 years. By CHRIS BURROWS cburrows@shawmedia.com DeKALB – When John Rey began attending Corn Fest in the 1970s, it wasn’t much more than a corn boil, and Rey wasn’t much more than a regular DeKalb resident. A lot has changed since then. Now Rey, the mayor, is pleased to welcome a much larger and very different Corn Fest back to downtown DeKalb. The 2013 Corn Fest brings with it a new location, a new weekend and a slew of new activities for families from DeKalb and around the area. After five years spent at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport, the festival of music, food, beverages and fun is setting up in downtown DeKalb, where it spent the previous 30 years. “I’m very excited to see Corn Fest returning to downtown,” Rey said. “I think it will return the focus to the community that it traditionally has represented. I’ve had a number of people comment that they had not attended Corn Fest since it moved to the airport.” This year’s festival won’t be an exact replica of downtown festivals from the past. Festival Chairwoman Lisa Angel said changes include more parking and reworked entrances. “Our biggest problem when it was downtown was finding parking,” Angel said. “We should have 400 parking spaces available downtown that we didn’t have before, as well as side streets and residential areas.” Angel works for Shaw Media, which publishes the Daily Chronicle. Another problem from downtown Corn Fests past was that the carnival’s location south of the
See CORN FEST, page A6
Andy Raih of the city of DeKalb posts a special event no-parking sign Wednesday in the 100 block of East Lincoln Highway in downtown DeKalb. A section of Lincoln Highway will be closed beginning today at 3 p.m.
DeKALB – Northern Illinois University’s next police chief will be Tom Phillips, the deputy police chief at the University of Chicago. Phillips, who also worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department from 1996 to 2012, will start Sept. 16 with an annual salary of $160,000. NIU officials announced Phillips’ hiring Wednesday. “We conducted a nationwide search for the new chief and believe Tom Phillips will be an excellent fit for NIU,” NIU President Douglas Baker said in a news release. “He is a talented, experienced and proven leader who is committed to campus safety, crime prevention and student success.” Phillips replaces Donald Grady, who was fired Feb. 19 for mismanaging an investigation of an NIU police officer accused of raping a student while off-campus and off-duty. In February, Grady, who is black, alleged race was a factor in the disciplinary action against him, pointing out that none of the white defendants in
Age: 44 Family: Wife and three children Experience: • 2012 to present University of Chicago Police Department • 1996 to 2012 University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department • 1987 to 1995 Military Police Corps
the “coffee fund” scrap metal recycling cases were fired. Grady, the university’s police chief for 11 years, made $205,987 annually when he was fired. NIU officials advertised the latest job opening as paying between $150,000 and $175,000 a year. The nationwide search, conducted by Voorhees Associates and Alexander Weiss Consulting, included 79 applicants. The field was narrowed to four finalists in July. In the second week of August, each of the finalists spent a day on campus. They were interviewed by seven groups, representing students, faculty,
See NIU CHIEF, page A6
Death sentence for Fort Hood shooter Could be 1st soldier executed in decades
Corn Fest details • Carnival throughout the festival. Wristbands will be available for $22 from 3 to 11 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and for $30 all day Sunday. • Kid Fest throughout the festival with inflatable bounce houses and obstacle courses, a dunk tank and a hands-on science station • Beer garden 5 to 11 p.m. Friday, noon to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. $5 admission, children younger than 12 must be accompanied by an adult. • Vintage auto show from 8 a.m. to 3:30
p.m. Saturday • Bags tournament 11 a.m. Saturday. $30 a team to play. • Free corn boil 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, or while corn lasts • Art Fest for kids noon to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Kids Fest area • Bike rally begins at 8 a.m. Sunday at Lions Park • Live music on the sound stage from 5:30 to 11 p.m. Friday and noon to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday • More information: www.cornfest.com
Voice your opinion: What is your favorite part of Corn Fest? Vote online at Daily-Chronicle.com.
On the Web: Corn Fest Chairwoman Lisa Angel shares five of the top things about this year’s festival in a video at Daily-Chronicle.com.
Sounds of Corn Fest: For a rundown of the bands performing at the threeday festival, see PAGE C1.
The ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT HOOD, Texas – A military jury Wednesday sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, handing the Army psychiatrist the ultimate punishment after a trial in which he seemed to be courting martyrdom by making almost no effort to defend himself. The rare military death sentence came nearly four years after the attack that stunned even an Army hardened by more than a decade of constant war. Hasan walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted “Allahu akbar” – Arabic for “God is great” – and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. Thirteen people were killed. Hasan, who said he acted to protect Islamic insurgents abroad from American aggres-
Maj. Nidal Hasan was convicted last week in the Nov. 5, 2009, attack that killed 13 and wounded more than 30.
sion, had no visible reaction when the sentence was announced, staring first at the jury forewoman and then at the judge. Some victims’ relatives were in the courtroom but none showed any reaction, which the judge had warned against. The American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent acted as his own attorney and never denied his actions at the huge Texas Army post. In opening statements, he told jurors that evidence would show he was the shooter and described himself
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