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Local election contests take shape District 428 among boards lacking enough people willing to run as candidate filing ends By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Two DeKalb aldermanic races without incumbents have each attracted three candidates, although that could change by the April election. Candidates had until 5 p.m. Monday to file their petitions for various offices throughout the county. By
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that time, three candidates had each filed in DeKalb’s Wards 3 and 5. Meanwhile, two had filed for Ward 7 and only one, incumbent David Jacobson,
had filed for Ward 1. The race for Ward 3 could end up being less competitive. Web developer Mac McIntyre, 58, said he filed only because he didn’t want former city clerk and alderman Steve Kapitan to be the only candidate, pointing to Kapitan’s resignation from the city clerk position in 2012 after failing to comply with the state’s Open Meetings Act.
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“I just think it should be a contest,” McIntyre said. With Kishwaukee Country Club manager Michael Marquardt, 46, also filing for Ward 3, McIntyre said he would likely drop out once the period for people to object to petitions had passed. DeKalb County Clerk and Recorder Doug Johnson said registered voters have five business days to file objections in the office where peti-
tions were filed. If an objection is filed, a hearing will be scheduled three to five days after the chairman of the local electoral board has received the nominating petition and the objection, Johnson said. Marquardt said he had been thinking about running for office, but it was encouragement from family members
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The ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK – As the New York Police Department mourns two of their own, Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded for a pause in protests and rancor amid a widening rift with those in a grieving force who accuse him of creating a climate of mistrust that contributed to the execution of two officers. De Blasio called Monday for a halt of political statements until the after funerals of the slain officers, an appeal to both sides in a roiling dispute centered on the deaths of black men at the hands of white police officers. “We are in a very difficult moment. Our focus has to be on these families,” de Blasio said Monday at police headquarters. “I think it’s a time for everyone to put aside political debates, put aside protests, put aside all of the things that we will talk about in all due time.” De Blasio’s relations with the city’s police unions have tumbled to an extraordinary new low in the aftermath of Saturday’s shooting – an ambush the gunman claimed was retaliation for the police-involved deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In a display of defiance, dozens of police officers turned their backs to de Blasio at the hospital where the officers died, and union leaders said the mayor had “blood on his hands” for enabling the protesters who have swept the streets of New York this month since a grand jury declined to indict an officer in Garner’s chokehold death. De Blasio, though he said he did not agree with the union leaders’ comments, largely tried to strike a unifying note in his first extensive question-and-answer session since the shooting. He said he was confident the city was “working toward a day where we can achieve greater harmony toward policing and community.” Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were ambushed Saturday afternoon by a 28-year-old who vowed in an Instagram post that he would put “wings on pigs.” The suspect, Ismaaiyl Brinsley was black; the slain officers were Hispanic and Asian. The killings came as police nationwide are being criticized following Garner’s death and the shooting death of the 18-year-old Brown. Protests erupted after grand juries declined to charge officers in either case. On Monday, a prosecutor said a white Milwaukee police officer who was fired after he fatally shot a mentally ill black man in April won’t face criminal charges. The brother of the slain man, though clearly angry, urged protesters to remain peaceful.
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Northern Illinois head coach Rod Carey enters the field with his team before the game against Bowling Green in the Marathon MAC title game Dec. 5 at Ford Field in Detroit. The Huskies won, 51-17.
CLASH OF CHAMPIONS Conference winners face off in inaugural Boca Raton Bowl year the game was able to attract the conference champions from each league. “Marshall’s a great team, they’re 12-1. EST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Boca We’re both conference champions,” NIU Raton Bowl couldn’t have asked for a offensive tackle Tyler Loos said. “We were better debut matchup. in discussion for [a New Year’s Six bowl]. The inaugural bowl game, which will If we can get the win, that will put us in the kick off at 5 p.m. today at Florida Atlantic national spotlight.” University Stadium, is a good setup. It’s held Northern Illinois enters the game at 11-2 in sunny South Florida, where the weather and on a six-game winning streak. Marshall is forecast to hit 80 degrees today. It’s also is 12-1, and was in the hunt for the Group of a pre-Christmas bowl, making travel easier Five berth in a New Year’s Six bowl game on fans who want to attend the game, as the before losing to Western Kentucky the day week after Christmas is South Florida’s busi- after Thanksgiving. est (and most expensive) week of the season. The Thundering Herd is an old foe for Organizers also expect a big crowd at FAU NIU and the rest of the MAC. Marshall won Stadium, which seats 29,419 people. five MAC championships from 1997 to 2002 And then there’s the matchup. The game’s before moving to Conference USA in 2005. tie-ins are with the Mid-American ConferThis year was the Herd’s first C-USA title. ence and Conference USA, and in its first Marshall defeated Maryland in last season’s
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Military Bowl, and has won its last three bowl games. “It’s a great testament to the people who organized this bowl and the direction that it’s going in,” Marshall head coach Doc Holliday said of the bowl’s matchup. “It’s got a great venue, great location.” While the Herd dominated the MAC just as NIU was getting back into the league (both joined the conference in 1997), the Huskies are now the conference’s dominant program. NIU has won the conference title three out of the past four seasons, and has won five straight MAC West championships. The Huskies are competing in their ninth bowl game as a major program, and are 4-4 in those contests. The Huskies have lost two straight bowls, the Orange Bowl against Florida State in January 2013 and the Poinsettia Bowl last December against Utah State.
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