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ST. CHARLES – After 23 years, Charlestowne Mall is headed for a new beginning. The Krausz Companies Inc. bought the mall in November for more than $9.5 million. The company plans to redevelop the site into The Quad St. Charles. The mall, which is about 27 miles from downtown DeKalb, has been in decline since its heyday in the 1990s. The mall’s new owners hope to reverse that trend and attract more customers from communities including DeKalb and Sycamore by giving the shopping center a new look and new options. Photos by Danielle Guerra – dguerra@shawmedia.com
Hope Haven resident Laquanda Hernet sits with her son Coreon Hernet, 4, after eating an after-school snack in the dining area of the shelter recently in DeKalb. She believes the parenting class she took when she was incarcerated has helped her have more patience with her son. BELOW: Hernet looks at her 4-year-old son Coreon Hernet’s report from school as he peeks from behind a chair in a common room at Hope Haven shelter in DeKalb recently.
By ANDREA AZZO aazzo@shawmedia.com DeKALB – DeKalb resident Laquanda Hernet is still learning how to be a better parent to her 4-year-old son, Coreon, after spending time in jail and struggling with alcoholism. Hernet has been free since Dec. 13 after having been arrested on a charge of aggravated driving under the influence. She is living at Hope Haven in DeKalb, and using the skills she has learned at the DeKalb County Jail’s parenting class and the county’s drug court program for better structure. “I don’t get mad like I used to,” Hernet said. “I
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The first phase of the mall redevelopment will focus on completing exterior work to the mall building. The developer also is actively recruiting new tenants and finalizing architectural designs, said Russell Colby, St. Charles’ planning division manager. Retailers look at infrastructure differently than before, said Jay Krigsman, Krausz Companies executive vice president. This means Krausz has to revamp the mall facility, which originally opened in 1991, to meet the needs of modern businesses. “I think our plan rendering does a good job of solving those problems,” Krigsman said.
Work starts slow Demolition and reconstruction work could begin as early as July, St. Charles officials said. No firm groundbreaking date has been set since the passing of an initial April target date.
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Our bond is a little bit better. Now he tells me more, ‘Mommy, I love you. You’re so nice.’ We spend more time together.” Laquanda Hernet, 4-year-old Coreon’s mother
count to three so [Coreon] knows mom’s not playing.” Officials said that structure is necessary to parent an increasing population of children with incarcerated mothers. A report from the U.S. Department of Justice
shows the female inmate population at jails nationwide increased 10.9 percent from mid-2010 to 2013, growing by an average of about 1 percent a year from 2005 to 2013. Studies have shown that
living without their mother can be detrimental to a child’s health and can even lead them to jail as they grow older. Children from newborns to 5-year-olds whose Sandy Bressner – sbressner@shawmedia.com
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A maintenance employee walks through a nearly empty Charlestowne Mall in St. Charles.
Obama unveils controversial plan to cap carbon emissions The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON – Taking aim at global warming, President Barack Obama introduced a politically charged plan Monday to order big and lasting cuts in the pollution discharged by America’s power plants. But the plan, although ambitious in scope, wouldn’t be fully realized until long after Obama’s successor took office and would generate only modest progress worldwide. Obama’s proposal to force a 30 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions, by the year 2030
from 2005 levels, drew immediate scorn from Republicans, industry groups and even a few Democrats who are facing tough re-election campaigns in energy-dependent states. Environmental activists were split, with some hailing the plan and others calling it insufficiently strict to prevent the worst effects of global warming. In all likelihood, the plan marks one of the most significant steps Obama will take to shape the country he governs during his final years in office. Stymied by Congress on nearly every front, Obama has turned
to actions he can take on his own, but has found limited means to effect the type of sweeping change he has envisioned in his two campaigns. The effort would cost up to $8.8 billion a n n u a l l y i n President 2030, the EPA Barack projected. But Obama the actual price is impossible to predict until states decide how to reach their targets – a process that will take years.
Obama, in a conference call with public health leaders, sought to head off critics who have argued the plan will kill jobs, drive up power bills and crush the economy in regions of the U.S. “What we’ve seen every time is that these claims are debunked when you actually give workers and businesses the tools and the incentives they need to innovate,” Obama said. Never before has the U.S. sought to restrict carbon dioxide from existing power plants, although Obama’s administration also is pursuing the first
limits on newly built plants. While the plan would push the nation closer to achieving Obama’s pledge to reduce total U.S. emissions by 17 percent by 2020, it still would fall short of the global reductions scientists say are needed to stabilize the planet’s temperature. Connie Hedegard, the European Union’s commissioner for climate change, called the rule “the strongest action ever taken by the U.S. government to fight climate change.” But she also said, “All countries, including the United States, must do even more than what this reduction
trajectory indicates.” Fossil-fueled U.S. power plants account for 6 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, so even a steep domestic cut affects just a portion worldwide. And even with the new limits, coal plants that churn out carbon dioxide will still provide about 30 percent of U.S. energy, according to predictions by the Environmental Protection Agency, down from about 40 percent today. Power plants are America’s largest source of greenhouse gases, accounting for 38 percent of annual emissions.
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