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Man stabbed to death in home Incident in Genoa under investigation; police had been called to house in past By DAILY CHRONICLE
“Jene surprised me with 27 roses for Valentine’s day for our 27th Valentine’s day.”
news@daily-chronicle.com GENOA – Charges had not been filed as of late Thursday in connection with a domestic dispute that resulted in a man being stabbed to death inside a home Thursday evening. Police were called to a home in the 31200 block of Madison Road south of Genoa about 5 p.m. Thursday, where they found Jene Burno, 44, dead inside. According to a news release, police found the other Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com person involved in the disDeKalb County Sheriff’s authorities responded to a home Thursday at 31223 Madison Road in Genoa, after pute at a nearby home. That a report that a person was stabbed with a knife in the house. DeKalb County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Gary person had not been charged. The DeKalb County SherDumdie (right) said on the scene that police were investigating a domestic dispute.
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iff’s Office still was investigating what happened late Thursday night and working with the DeKalb County State’s Attorney’s to review the facts and circumstances of the death, Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Gary Dumdie said. Police also are working with
the DeKalb County Coroner’s Office to determine the cause and manner of the man’s death, he said. Burno lived in the home with his wife, Kendra. They had been together for 27 years, according to a post on Kendra Burno’s blog that noted in February that “Jene surprised me with 27 roses for Valentine’s day for our 27th Valentine’s day.” Police had been called to the residence for domestic issues in the past; in 2010, Jene Burno was arrested and charged with four counts of domestic battery after what police described as an alcohol-fueled incident.
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By DARIA SOKOLOVA dsokolova@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – A new chapter of Ideal Industries started Thursday afternoon as several managers, contractors and architects kicked off the construction of a new 220,000-square-foot facility. David Juday, retired chairman of the board of Ideal and the grandson of J. Walter Becker, who founded the company in 1916, said the building located in the 235-acre Sycamore Prairie Business Park would replace some of the company’s aging facilities in DeKalb and Sycamore. It also will bring efficiency and provide opportunities for some of the company’s new products such as ratcheting wrenches and lighting control systems. “It’s a family business,” Juday said. “When you sign up for a family business, you sign up for life, and that’s kind of where we are.” At the groundbreaking ceremony, several stakeholders, local officials and company employees donned blue hard hats and posed for photos with shovels next to an open field where the facility will be built. Becker founded the company in Chicago in 1916 and later moved operations to Sycamore. Since then, some if its key products have been electrical parts, Shkordoff said. Juday said the building project is expected to cost $18 million and will be finished by the end of the year. Initially, he said the company will only transfer operations and relocate employees from facilities in Sycamore and DeKalb. “We fully expect to hire people over time,” he said. “This particularly won’t cause it. Some of the new products may very well. ... This reflects success of the business. The success of the business will lead to more employment.” Nick Shkordoff, electrical group vice president for Ideal, said he hoped the new facility would allow for increased manufacturing opportunities and create more jobs. “So we are going to use the 11 acres now, but we have a lot of land that we can expand it to,” he said. “We are really pumped about it, but again, I think the real thing is to get us out of the old facility and
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Sycamore junior Gina Butala is extricated from a vehicle by Sycamore firefighters Thursday during the mock Operation Prom crash in the Salem Lutheran Church parking lot next to Sycamore High School. Sycamore’s prom is Saturday.
STAYING SAFE By ADAM POULISSE apoulisse@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Paige Bjork learned some valuable lessons about drunken driving on prom night from her role as a person who died in a car crash Thursday. A Chevy Cobalt driven by a drunken driver rear-ended a Toyota Camry in the Salem Lutheran
Church parking lot, 1145 DeKalb Ave., Sycamore. Firefighters and paramedics from DeKalb, Sycamore, Cortland and Burlington raced to the horrific scene of twisted metal, broken glass and blood-splattered Sycamore students dressed in their prom-night best. “Things like this can happen to anyone, and you need to be cautious of your surroundings
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and of the situations you put yourself in,” said Bjork, a senior. Thankfully, it was all staged for the Sycamore High School junior and senior classes, and no one was actually injured. With Sycamore’s prom on Saturday, Sycamore firefighters staged a realistic re-enactment of a DUI crash scene, encouraging students to make responsible decisions about driving under the
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influence on prom night – and beyond. “You could hear glass breaking and the radios of the paramedics and then people carried out on stretchers,” Bjork said. “I was put in a body bag. That made things pretty real.” For about eight years, the crash scene has alternated years
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