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DeKalb residents push for restoration Annie Glidden house needs major repairs By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com
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Sycamore government teacher Talvi Bedford stands at the front of his classroom Monday teaching a dual credit class with Kishwaukee College. Sycamore and Kishwaukee College have started a pilot program where high school seniors take classes in government, college algebra, composition, or business, and receive general education college credits.
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By JESSI HAISH jhaish@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Annie Malecki will have almost a semester of college completed before she graduates high school in May. Malecki has filled part of her Sycamore High School senior year schedule with college courses in English, government and psychology in the hopes of finishing up college a little early – once she gets to that point. “Getting part of my [associate degree] out of the way is helpful,” she said. “It’s a good way to get a head start on college.” Malecki, who said she still is unsure what she wants to study in college, is among about 50 students participating in Sycamore’s first Kish on Campus, which allows high school students to begin taking college courses at half the college cost. This is the first academic year Sycamore High School has offered the program, which is more expansive than similar programs Kishwaukee College has at other high schools. The cost per credit hour at Kishwaukee is $113, while Syc-
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Talvi Bedford passes out an article Monday during a dual credit class with Kishwaukee College. Bedford, who has a law degree, paces this class much like a college course with opportunities for policy discussions. amore students can take courses at the high school for $56.50 a credit hour. Most classes are worth three credit hours. Sedgwick Harris, Kishwaukee College vice president of student services, said because courses are taught at the high school by Sycamore teachers, there are no transportation costs for stu-
dents. The high school teachers must have certain credentials to teach the courses, including a master’s degree. “It gets students exposed to college and thinking about, ‘Am I college ready, am I career ready?’ ” Harris said. “It does save them a lot of money and gets them that much more ahead
in their education.” Classes offered through Sycamore’s Kish on Campus include composition I and composition II, algebra, trigonometry, government, business seminar and U.S. history. Only high school seniors are eligible to participate in Kish on Campus, and those interested had to take Kishwaukee College placement tests. The college bills the student’s family directly, and much like a college setting, students are required to purchase their textbooks. Some students say they were interested in the courses over advanced placement classes, which also can provide college credit, because of the potential challenge.
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DeKALB – A group of DeKalb residents is trying to save a 113-year old home owned by the Northern Illinois University Foundation, but the foundation president isn’t convinced the home is worth preserving. To convince university leaders, including NIU Foundation President Mike Malone, area residents Barry Schrader and Steve Bigolin will present a restoration plan for the home at 253 N. Annie Glidden Road today. “We hope we can work with them on the preservation effort,” Schrader said. Schrader, who also is a Daily Chronicle columnist, and Bigolin, a local historian, formed the Annie Glidden Agrarian Society to help save the home and carriage house that Schrader said DeKalb icon Annie Glidden lived in from around 1906 to 1928. Glidden, who was in her early 40s in 1906, grew asparagus, corn, alfalfa and raspberries there, winning a state award for her high corncrop yields. Schrader said the roof is in a dire condition that jeopardizes the entire home, which is why talks about renovation have started to gain momentum. The NIU foundation bought the home on 4.6 acres, which sits adjacent to NIU’s campus, for $200,000 in 1977 from the Oderkirk family, Foundation President Mike Malone said. NIU entered into a 30year lease with the Foundation, which will expire in 2015. “The foundation raised that money, not as a historic preservation piece,” Malone said, “but to outbid a developer who was going to use it for commercial purposes.” Schrader and Bigolin met with Malone and NIU President Doug Baker on Aug. 14 to discuss the future of the house. Schrader said he would like it to be home to the Global Student Organization, a group that supports international students. Baker gave them 30 days to create a plan for saving the home. More recently, Schrader and Bigolin met with the DeKalb Landmark Commission in an attempt to get historic designation that would allow them to apply for grant money. However, members of the Landmark Commission couldn’t take action without permission from the home’s owners.
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Sen. Durbin denies ‘bullying’ businesses during interview By SARA BURNETT and SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press CHICAGO – U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is unabashedly defending his name-calling and other attacks on Illinois businesses looking to locate their headquarters overseas – moves his Republican challenger has described as “bullying” and the kind of anti-business behavior that’s hampering the state’s economic recovery. Durbin, who’s seeking his fourth U.S. Senate term against dairy entrepreneur and GOP state Sen. Jim Ober-
weis, shined a spotlight on Deerfield-based Walgreen and other companies that considered relocating to take advantage of lower tax rates, calling them “deserters” and unpatriotic. The U.S. Dick Durbin Senate’s second-most-powerful Democrat also started petitions, held news conferences and introduced legislation to prevent such companies from getting federal contracts. “I think it’s my job,” Durbin said in an interview
with The Associated Press. “If an Illinois senator won’t stand up to keep companies in this state and in this country he’s got the backbone of a melting ice cream cone.” Oberweis, whose family owns a chain of ice cream shops, argued it’s more evidence Durbin – who’s served on Capitol Hill for 32 years – has grown arrogant and “has no idea how to create jobs in the private economy.” He said the solution to so-called corporate inversions – when a U.S. company merges with or buys a foreign company then moves its legal address overseas – is
to make Illinois and the U.S. more business-friendly by lowering taxes and cutting regulations he says are too burdensome. Durbin, 69, of Springfield, outlined his views on a range of issues during the hour-long interview with AP, including critics’ argument that he’s been in Washington too long and how much of the blame Democrats shoulder for the dysfunction there. Durbin has won his last two elections with at least 60 percent of the vote, and Oberweis has said it will take “a pretty significant Republican year” for him to win.
“There will be some who say it’s time to move to someone else,” Durbin said. “There will be others who will say he’s used his experience to help us and we want to keep him in the job.” Durbin is leading a Democratic effort in Illinois and elsewhere to hold off Republicans this fall. In Illinois, the GOP sees the opportunity to pick up the governor’s office and a couple of congressional seats while nationally they are aiming to take control of the U.S. Senate. Durbin said he’s working to register voters and push turnout among hundreds
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of thousands of Democratic “fall off” voters that history shows tend to stay home in elections where there’s no presidential race on the ballot. His actions on Walgreen – which ultimately decided not to relocate – and other companies fit a narrative he and other Democrats are pushing: That Democratic candidates are the ones who will stand up for the little guy. He’s introduced a bill to give tax breaks to companies that keep jobs in the U.S. and pay at least $15 per hour, among other things.
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