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DeKalb discusses housing complex Mayor wants a bigger contribution from developer By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.om DeKALB – DeKalb City Council members met Monday to discuss how to proceed with negotiations regarding the potential redevelopment of University Village, the city’s largest apartment complex. Seattle-based company Security Properties has been in talks with the city since last year about the apartment complex, which is 87 percent Section 8 housing. The company wants to purchase and
renovate the 534-unit, 32.3-acre University Village complex at 733 N. Annie Glidden Road. The proposed project would include interior unit renovations and address numerous health, safety and security issues on the property, by upgrading fire systems and installing better lighting and door locks, according to city documents. The plan suffered a setback in May when the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted against a key component of the plan, allowing it to be
rebuilt at its current density of 18 units an acre. City zoning regulations, changed since the project was first approved, now allow for a maximum density of 12 units an acre. Since then, the company has sweetened its offer. Security Properties representatives have tentatively agreed to contribute $150,000 upfront to provide social services to the complex, which Tiara Huggins, with the University Village Tenants Association, said is sorely needed. “We think it will make
a drastic impact,” she said. “Originally they weren’t offering anything for that. … It’s a great start.” Security Properties also would provide an additional $10,000 a year for 15 years for social services, according to city documents. Huggins said the tenants’ association in particular would like to see more employment services offered, such as résumé building workshops. Having computers available so
See COUNCIL, page A5
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DeKalb Mayor John Rey asks for questions from the DeKalb City Council during discussion about the University Village rezoning measure after he suggested that Security Properties be asked for $600,000 upfront for social services instead of the previously talked about $150,000 cost during the council meeting Monday at City Hall.
Hastert faces an uphill legal battle in case
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By MICHAEL TARM The Associated Press CHICAGO – The federal indictment of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has raised a long list of puzzling legal questions, including why prosecutors filed banking charges in a case that, at its core, appears to involve extortion and sexual abuse. No defense attorney promptly came forward to publicly rebut the charges, and Hastert might have avoided some embarrassing details becoming public had he negotiated a plea agreement. Some answers could come today, when the 73-year-old is scheduled to make his first court appear- Dennis ance since a May 28 indictment Hastert said he agreed to pay $3.5 million to someone from his days as high school teacher and wrestling coach not to reveal a secret about past misconduct. He’s charged with violating banking laws and lying to the FBI, with each of those two counts carrying a maximum five-year prison term. A look at the arraignment and some of the legal issues in the case:
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Isabella Holiday, 9, of DeKalb takes hold of the controls and peers over her left shoulder Saturday at the view of DeKalb from the air during a Young Eagles program. Holiday said she would like to be a pilot someday. Young Eagles started in 1992 and has since flown more than 1.9 million children between age 8 and 17.
Young Eagles take to skies
LAWYER UP Legal observers wonder if Hastert violated the old adage about never answering questions without a lawyer present when investigating authorities’ approached him at the end of last year. Usually, a lawyer emerges within hours of formal charges. In Hastert’s case, one wasn’t listed on the court docket until Monday afternoon: Prominent Washington, D.C.-based attorney Thomas C. Green. The indictment says FBI investigators questioned Hastert on Dec. 8, 2014, about withdrawing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash at a time. It was his answer – he said he was keeping it at home because he didn’t trust banks – that led to the lying charge. Any lawyer would almost certainly have advised Hastert in that FBI interview to keep his mouth shut. A high-powered legal team might also have tried to hammer out a deal immediately with prosecutors, perhaps proposing that Hastert plead guilty in exchange for dismissing a count. An agreement also could have avoided a formal indictment, potentially keeping some embarrassing allegations under wraps. Green has decades of experience defending
Program gives area youth hands-on experience in aviation By ADAM POULISSE apoulisse@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Isabella Holiday took her career goals to new heights on Saturday. About 2,100 feet, give or take. Steve Klopfenstein, a pilot and chairman of DeKalb-based Chapter 241 of the Experimental Aircraft Association, drove the plane down runway No. 9 at DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport. Once they reached a comfortable cruising altitude high above DeKalb County, Holiday, a third-grader at St. Mary’s Catholic School in DeKalb, took a
set of controls in front of her and flew the plane, even dipping the left wing for a turn at one point, before Klopfenstein navigated the plane back to the city-owned hangar at the airport. “It was pretty amazing,” Holiday said once she was back on the ground. “I was in charge. That was pretty cool.” Holiday was one of about 20 area youngsters who participated in the EAA’s Young Eagles flying program, a national venture that Pilot Ned Richer goes over a preflight check and talks about different parts of launched in 1992 to offer anyone
See EAGLES, page A5
the airplane Saturday before taking Madison Loebach, 8, and sister Abrianna Loebach, 10, up in the plane during a Young Eagles program at the DeKalb Taylor Municipal Airport.
See HASTERT, page A5
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