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Sycamore will mull 300-acre annexation By KATIE SMITH ksmith@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – The Sycamore City Council will consider recommendations to move forward with a 300-acre annexation by the city at a meeting Oct. 19. The city’s Planning Commission made recommendations at a public hearing Monday to annex six parcels northwest of the city. The land
is to be zoned rural residential, meaning it would have a maximum population density of one home for every three acres. Each of the six property owners within the 300 acres has submitted a draft annexation agreement, each of which was approved, 10-0, Monday by the commissioners. The commission’s recommendations will next go to the City Council, Sycamore City
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Manager Brian Gregory said. “This one actually had it’s own sub area planned where the details were established,” Gregory said. In February, 2011, the City Council approved the Northwest Sub Area Plan, which envisions a rural “conservation” subdivision west of Motel Road to feather the city’s limits with sparse housing and farmland, Gregory said. “The plan ... took into ac-
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count the established property in the area and the rural character it possessed,” Gregory said. Jeff Patton, who lives outside the city limits near the area to be annexed, said he and other residents are concerned that the annexation could create traffic and water problems and crowding in local schools. “It’s our feeling that [the city is] just trying to dodge the [DeKalb County] because they
know the county is not going to go for anything like this,” Patton said. “If this land is annexed, it’s basically just going to be a little island out there of city land surrounded completely by county land.” Sycamore Mayor Ken Mundy said he has heard from some residents who said the annexation would be good for the area. “What we are doing here, even the county would agree,
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Cubs relief pitcher Hector Rondon (56) celebrates after striking out St. Louis Cardinals left fielder Stephen Piscotty (55) to win Game 4 in the National League Division Series on Tuesday at Wrigley Field. The Cubs won, 4-6.
Berth in NLCS awaits By ANDREW SELIGMAN The Associated Press CHICAGO – Joe Maddon posed for a selfie on the field with his wife. Jon Lester sprayed champagne with his young son. Rocker Eddie Vedder partied on the mound. For the Cubs and their ever-hopeful fans, this bash was a long time in the making. Kyle Schwarber, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez homered and the fresh Cubs clinched a postseason series at Wrigley Field for the first time, beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-4, Tuesday to win the NL Division Series in four games. “This is all just baseball fantasy, right?” a drenched chairman Tom Ricketts said. Only once since they last brought home the World Series in 1908 had the Cubs won a playoff series and
More coverage To read more about the Cubs’ victory over the Cardinals, see page B1. never before had they finished off the job at their century-plus-old ballpark. But with a raucous, towel-waving crowd jamming the Friendly Confines, the North Siders gave generations of fans exactly what they wanted. And as they gathered in the pulsating neighborhood, the lit-up marquee at Wrigley Field said it all: Cubs Win. “I can only imagine what the next thing is going to look like,” said Lester, the lefty who twice won the World Series with Boston. “And the next thing after that.”
Cubs manager Joe Maddon hugs his wife Jaye after the Cubs won.
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is we’re developing, expanding from within the city to the outskirts and beyond that,” Mundy said. “The community that exists in the area should feel good about this.” Alyssa Colness, whose family has lived in her Sycamore home since the 1800s, said the city’s efforts to preserve a rural lifestyle seem counterproductive. Using land with an
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Planned Parenthood changes policy on fetal-tissue By DAVID CRARY The Associated Press NEW YORK – Responding to a furor over undercover videos, Planned Parenthood said it will maintain programs at some of its clinics that make fetal tissue available for research, but will cover the costs itself rather than accepting any reimbursement. Anti-abortion activists who recently released a series of covertly filmed videos have contended that Planned Parenthood officials sought profits from their programs providing post-abortion fetal tissue to researchers. Planned Parenthood said the videos were deceptively edited and denied seeking any payments beyond legally permitted reimbursement of costs. The new policy – forgoing even permissible reimbursement – was outlined in a letter sent Tuesday by Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, to Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health. “Planned Parenthood’s policies on fetal tissue donation already exceed the legal requirements,” Richards wrote. “Now we’re going even further in order to take away any basis for attacking Planned Parenthood to advance an anti-abortion political agenda.” The videos were released, starting in mid-July, by a group of anti-abortion activists calling themselves the Center for Medical Progress. Activists posed as representatives of a biomedical firm and sought to negotiate the purchase of fetal organs from some Planned Parenthood personnel. David Deleiden, who led the undercover video effort, depicted Planned Parenthood’s shift as “an admission of guilt.” “If the money Planned Parenthood has been receiving for baby body parts were truly legitimate ‘reimbursement,’ why cancel it?” he asked. Republicans in control of Congress have responded to the undercover videos by launching several investigations of Planned Parenthood, along with efforts to cut off the organization’s federal funding. Most of that funding is reimbursement for Medicaid patients receiving cancer screenings, contraception and other non-abortion services. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, described Planned Parenthood’s policy change as “a good, tangible result” of the various House investigations. He said his own panel would continue its inquiry into Planned Parenthood’s use of federal funding. Thus far, none of the congressional investigations, nor separate investigations in six states, have verified any law-breaking by Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood says its fetal tissue programs currently take place in only two states – California and Washington – at about a half-dozen of the 700 health centers run by the organization nationwide.
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