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NIU, Kishwaukee release crime stats Drug and alcohol violations, theft among most reported DeKALB – Annual crime information Northern Illinois University reported to the federal government this week reveals upticks in drug- and alcohol-related incidents, but the university plans to focus on reducing sex-related crimes.
and investigates all criminal activity on campus, as well as off-campus on properties owned by NIU. NIU had 15 cases of sexual assault in 2014 that it reported as part of the Clery Act. That was the most reported in the last three years, although police deemed two cases unfounded after investigating them. In 2012, there were 11 sex assaults reported.
The information is part of schools’ 2015-2016 Annual Security Report. All higher education institutions that participate in federal financial aid programs are required to send an annual report to the U.S. Department of Education under the Clery Act.
See CLERY ACT, page A6
DEKALB’S CINDY CRAWFORD
NIU: niu.edu/clery/annual_security_report.pdf U of I Urbana-Champaign: publicsafety.illinois.edu/ universitypolice/CurrentASR.pdf SIU-Carbondale: safe.siu.edu/_common/documents/2014_asr.pdf W. Illinois: wiu.edu/clery/Security-Report-2014.pdf Illinois State Univ.: security.illinoisstate.edu/annual_reports/2014_ASR.pdf
Tax-break deals yield uncertain results in Ill. The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Model’s roots featured in her autobiography, ‘Becoming’ By ADAM POULISSE apoulisse@shawmedia.com Before Cindy Crawford graced runways and magazines such as Playboy and Cosmopolitan, she toiled under the hot summer sun in DeKalb County cornfields. As different as those two worlds are, Crawford said the hard work she did growing up in DeKalb helped her appreciate the glamorous career she’s had as a supermodel. “I learned the value of a dollar,” Crawford told the Daily Chronicle. “By the time I was actually modeling, I had worked before. I knew how to treat modeling like a job. It’s a great job, it’s a fun job, but it’s still a job. So you have to be on time, you have to show up, you have to be professional. I think I learned that from all the other jobs.” In her autobiography “Becoming,” which was released this week, Crawford, on the brink of turning 50, chronicles her days as a bookworm DeKalb High School student who was discovered by a local photographer to her career today as a successful businesswoman and icon.
See CRAWFORD, page A6
Where to buy Cindy Crawford’s book “Becoming” is available on most online shopping outlets, including Amazon, Books-aMillion and Rizzoli New York.
Book signings in the region Wednesday • 12:15 to 2 p.m., Union League Club of Chicago, 65 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago • 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 55 Old Orchard Center, Skokie
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Cindy Crawford’s autobiography, “Becoming,” was released this week.
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CHICAGO – A newspaper analysis shows that companies who receive tax breaks through Illinois’ primary job-creation program often don’t add jobs and sometimes even laid-off workers. The Chicago Tribune analyzed 783 deals the state has made through the Economic Development for a Growing Economy program and found that twothirds of the companies that completed agreements didn’t maintain agreed-upon job levels. State officials also can’t say how many jobs have been created by the program, known as EDGE, which Gov. Bruce Rauner put on hold in June. Since 1999, Illinois has promised more than $1 billion in EDGE tax breaks, which officials say helps lure new firms, hang onto employers who might move elsewhere and encouraging businesses to add jobs. Companies have so far collected about $450.3 million – money that, if collected, would help pay for public services such as education and health care. Rauner’s move came this summer as he and the Democrats who control the General Assembly disagreed over a new state budget, though new deals the state reached with Amazon and ConAgra Foods before June have only been recently announced. The Republican governor reiterated Friday that, even when the EDGE program is restarted, the state won’t provide tax breaks unless companies create new jobs. At least 78 companies that have signed EDGE deals since 2004 were not required to add jobs, the newspaper found and at least 51 of those were made by the administration of Rauner’s predecessor, Democrat Pat Quinn. But Rauner defended the tax breaks promised to ConAgra as crucial to the company’s plans to move its headquarters from Omaha, Nebraska, to Chicago. Neither ConAgra nor state officials have disclosed the terms of that deal beyond the requirement that the company add 150 new jobs. “Getting corporate headquarters for a Fortune 500 company like ConAgra is a big deal long term to the economic growth in Illinois,” Rauner told The Associated Press. “And they will be adding jobs. We would not give them edge credits unless they were adding jobs.”
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“All crime is a concern for the university and campus police department,” said NIU Police Chief Thomas Phillips. “However, we are placing special emphasis on sex crimes to encourage survivors to come forward so we can provide support.” The Northern Illinois University police department responds to
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