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Sycamore annexation plan revived
City Council sends proposal back to Planning Commission for workshop By KATIE SMITH
ksmith@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – The Sycamore City Council has referred a highly debated annexation agreement back to the city’s Planning Commission in hopes a workshop session might smooth out the agreement’s kinks. The council voted 5-3 Monday to reconsider a proposed an-
nexation agreement that would pave the way for adding 300 acres to the city and allow for residential development in the rural area northwest of the city. Aldermen Steve Braser (3rd Ward), Rick Kramer (4th Ward), and Alan Bauer (1st Ward) voted against the reconsideration, while Aldermen Curt Lang (1st Ward), Pete Paulsen (2nd Ward), Becky Springer (3rd Ward),
Chuck Stowe (2nd Ward), and Janice Tripp (4th Ward), voted in its favor. The council then voted 5-3 again in favor of asking the Planning Commission to host a workshop to further discuss concerns with the Northwest Sub Area Plan, Unified Development regulations and the annexation agreement. The workshop could be hosted at any time and
would not require the property owners to wait a full year to resubmit their petitions, Mayor Ken Mundy said. “The legal aspect of this is that some things have to happen within a certain time frame,” Mundy said. “If we had rejected it out of hand tonight then it would be an entire year before it could be brought back to the Planning Commission. We don’t
think that’s necessary. We don’t think all the discussion’s been held yet to make that more or less of a final decision, and so the planning commission is a legal way to bring it back and have no timeline.” The council rejected the proposed agreement at a meeting Nov. 2 after neighboring landowners raised concerns about the impact of future develop-
ment. The six property owners, who want the 300 acres to be annexed into the city, asked consultant and former Sycamore city manager Bill Nicklas to help them plead their case after the proposed annexation was rejected by the council earlier this month.
See COUNCIL, page A5
Rauner: Ill. no longer taking Syrian refugees
THANKSGIVING DINNER
By KEVIN P. CRAVER
kcraver@shawmedia.com
Photos by Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com
Meat department supervisor Rob Campbell sprinkles seasoning on a 6-pound, old-fashioned spiral-cut ham Monday at Inboden’s Meats in DeKalb. Inboden’s Meats, during an average Thanksgiving season, fills anywhere from 600 to 800 turkey orders and 200 to 300 orders for hams.
Customary cuisine
DeKalb County’s cooks sticking with traditional fare By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN
bkeeperman@shawmedia.com DeKalb County cooks say no thanks to the idea of ham for Thanksgiving, even if it could save them a few dollars. “I get what I want to have, and I want to have that traditional turkey,” DeKalb resident Sue Morgan said. “A spiral ham, I might get that for Christmas.” A bird flu outbreak earlier this year has some predicting a jump in turkey prices this Thanksgiving. The outbreak ended in June and caused a 3 percent loss in turkey population in upper Midwestern states, said Keith Williams, vice president of communications and marketing with the National Turkey Federation. Chances are, your local grocer or-
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dered birds way ahead of time. “The supply of Thanksgiving turkey ... was already accounted for beginning in March, before the late April-May peak of avian influenza,” he said. “Grocers plan for this big promotion to bring shoppers in for discounts, and offer turkey at special prices. They always have; this is an annual promotion and they, many months ago, contracted for the number of frozen turkeys they plan to sell.” It’s not always an either/or proposition. Thanksgiving hosts who are serving large groups of people often offer two kinds of meats, said Tom Inboden, owner of Inboden’s Meat Market, located on First Street in DeKalb.
See THANKSGIVING, page A5
Campbell pulls apart layers of a 6-pound, old-fashioned spiral-cut ham as he seasons it at the meat counter Monday at Inboden’s Meats in DeKalb.
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Illinois on Monday joined more than a dozen other states trying to block or suspend accepting Syrian refugees after Friday’s deadly terror attacks in Paris. Gov. Bruce Rauner announced that the state will temporarily suspend accepting new refugees from the war-torn county and consider its legal options pending a full review of Department of Homeland Security procedures for accepting them. “Our nation and our state have a shared history of providing safe haven for those displaced by conflict, but the news surrounding the Paris terror attacks reminds us of the all-too-real security Bruce Rauner threats facing America,” Rauner said in a statement. “We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.” Rauner joined governors from states including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin in suspending the relocation of Syrian refugees in their states, all but one of them Republican. Although some said the call was a prudent means of protecting Americans from a foreign enemy, others questioned whether it was in keeping with traditional American values. The Friday terror attacks across Paris left 129 dead and hundreds more wounded. Preliminary reports indicate that one of the suicide bombers who blew himself up near the Stade de France sports stadium may have entered Europe posing as one of the tens of thousands of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war and the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which took credit for the attacks. Authorities said a Syrian passport was found near one of the attackers, and the Paris prosecutors’ office said fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October. About 110 refugees from Syria have been resettled in Illinois this year as of October, according to the U.S. State Department’s Refugee Processing Center. The Illinois Department of Human Services said 131 refugees from Syria have settled in Illinois since 2011. President Barack Obama has set a goal of taking in 10,000 Syrian refugees next year.
See REFUGEES, page A2
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