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By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – The answer to the world’s increasing energy demand could be blowing in the wind, renowned climate scientist Richard Alley told around 200 people Friday at Northern Illinois University. Alley, an Evan Pugh Professor of geoscience at Penn State and a member of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, spoke to a packed lecture hall at Cole Hall about climate change and the possible solutions. “We spend a little over $1 trillion a year on energy in the U.S.,” Alley said. “If the world spent $1 trillion a year on windmills in 30 years that would be all the energy we need.” Alley cited Abraham Lincoln among those pushing for wind as a renewable energy, repeating Lincoln’s quote that one of the best discoveries that will be made will be the “taming and harnessing of the wind.” Adding to his point, Alley compared the amount of space that would have to be used for a wind farm to what is already used for growing food and grazing. “While it will be in people’s backyards and it will make some people unhappy to have a wind farm or a solar farm, what’s actually involved in doing this is small to what we’ve already done,” Alley said. Alley also proposed adding a carbon dioxide tax while removing income tax. Alley’s points were nothing new to Kathryn Quesnell, who arrived at Cole Hall on Friday
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Jerry Wright, 51, lead pastor at The Rock Christian Church, preaches his sermon to the congregation Oct. 12. Wright lived in University Village for 12 years before a student convinced him to buy a house. Wright is also the director of Student Support Services at Northern Illinois University. “The village gave me an opportunity to kind of get my life straight,” he said.
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Leaders focusing on relationships, amenities By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Jerry Wright sometimes wishes he could go back to his days as the self-proclaimed mayor of University Village. At 51, Wright is a homeowner, the lead pastor at The Rock Christian Church in DeKalb, and director of the Student Support Services Department at Northern Illinois University. If not for a student telling him to trade the village for a house about 10 years ago – or the $10,000 he was able to save while living in a government-subsidized townhome
– he imagines he probably would still be there. “It was a great place for this young family,” Wright said. “It catapulted me into getting housing and where I am now.” People with history at DeKalb’s largest apartment complex, University Village, understand the stigma that has surrounded the complex for years. Whether it stems from race, crime or the number of residents receiving federal housing subsidies, the residents wish they could push past the false image “the village” has gained.
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A comparison of changes in racial composition in University Village and the city of DeKalb as a whole. White
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This is part two of a two-day series taking an in-depth look at the University Village community. Friday: Many people who come to live in University Village say relocating to DeKalb helps them find a fresh start in a safer place. While they take comfort in having a place to live and raise their families, residents feel a stigma surrounds the place they call home. Saturday: The University Village community is changing, inspiring those who do not live there to improve relationships with those who do.
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CHICAGO – Illinois’ plan for dealing with the Ebola threat is evolving as health officials in the public and private sectors learn from mistakes made in Texas, the state’s top doctor said Friday. A small number of Illinois hospitals are considering being named Ebola centers, a state lab will be ready to test for the virus next week and a statewide task Inside force will be created, although its members were not named. n GOP turns to “There’s no failsafe plan, but Ebola fears in we have a plan and that plan is campaign drive. getting better and better every single day as we learn lessons PAGE A5 from Dallas,” said Dr. LaMar n U.N.: We Hasbrouck, director of the Il- botched linois Department of Public response to the Health, at a media briefing in Ebola outbreak. Chicago organized to update the PAGE A9 public on the state’s latest preparations for the deadly virus. On Friday, Gov. Pat Quinn ordered the creation of a statewide task force meant to strengthen the response in Illinois, and
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Visit Daily-Chronicle.com to watch a video of local people talking about their experiences living and working in University Village. Population in 2000: 39,018
Population in 2010: 43,862 See EBOLA, page A8
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