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D-428 board OKs hiring of 17 staffers By BRITTANY KEEPERMAN bkeeperman@shawmedia.com
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Law enforcement agents gather Tuesday during a manhunt for three suspects in the fatal shooting of a Fox Lake police officer.
Police officer killed in shooting; suspects at large Father, husband, youth volunteer, Army veteran known as ‘G.I. Joe’ By EMILY K. COLEMAN and KATIE DAHLSTROM ecoleman@shawmedia.com and @kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com FOX LAKE – More than a hundred police officers scoured terrain just miles from the site of another manhunt that occurred less than a year before, but Tuesday’s frantic search was done with the knowledge that this time they were searching for a cop killer. Fox Lake Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz – known as G.I. Joe to friends and the Fox Lake community, its mayor said – was killed Tuesday morning after he told dispatchers he was going to investigate three suspicious men, Lake County Detective Chris Covelli said. The officer’s last call to dispatchers before contact was lost was that he was involved in a foot chase in the area of Sayton Road and Route 12, Covelli said. The first officers who responded to the scene found Gliniewicz with a gunshot wound.
The search for the three men – described only as two white men and one black man – continued well into Tuesday night. Gliniewicz is the 83rd police officer to die on duty this year, the 24th to not be shot accidentally, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. Last year, 47 officers were fatally shot. His death follows the shootings of Deputy Darren H. GoLt. Charles forth, who was pumpGliniewicz ing gas into his patrol car at a commercial gas station in Texas; police officer Henry Nelson, who was responding to a domestic disturbance in Louisiana; and Louisiana Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, who was checking on a vehicle that had been reported as driving Law enforcement members patrol the area Tuesday during a manhunt for three recklessly, all of which happened in suspects in the fatal shooting of a Fox Lake police officer. the last nine days.
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DeKALB – DeKalb School District 428 is going ahead with the next steps of the facility operations and food service restructuring plan approved in July. The district approved the hire of eight facility and operations department workers and nine food services workers including a district satellite supervisor Tuesday. The board had previous laid off employees as a part of a districtwide restructuring plan that school officials have said would save the district $275,000 annually. The changes within the facility and operations department alone were estimated to save $250,000 and the changes to the food service structure would save approximately $25,000. Superintendent Douglas Moeller said it would give the district a chance to look at scheduling . “At the time when they were released, it was anticipated that most of them would be hired back,” Moeller said. “The school district I came from, they dismissed every nontenure teacher every year. It just gave them some flexibility.” Food service workers who had been rehired were brought back with reduced hours. Facilities staff were brought back mostly in different positions. Director of Facility Operations Tammy Carson said that only one of the hires was new to the department. “The rest are within the current structure,” she said. “So, we had some maintenance positions open and we always offer those first to union members.” Negotiations between the district and the support staff union haven’t been finalized yet, but the district is operating under the old contract until a new agreement is reached, Carson said. “People have been reassigned and been in their positions for a week or two weeks,” she said. “Things are going very smoothly. We knew all our department staff from the facility operations group that received a reduction in workforce notice would be brought back, and they were.”
“At the time when they were released, it was anticipated that most of them would be hired back.” Douglas Moeller DeKalb School District 428 superintendent
KishHealth, Northwestern merger about set for end of year By RHONDA GILLESPIE rgillespie@shawmedia.com DeKALB – A fund set up when KishHeath and Northwestern Memorial HeathCare merge at year’s end could benefit local residents – although there likely won’t be public input on the deal. Northwestern Memorial HealthCare is set to take ownerDanielle Guerra file photo – dguerra@shawmedia.com ship of DeKalb County’s largest Kishwaukee Hospital, located at One Kish Hospital Drive, along DeKalb health care provider. AccordAvenue in DeKalb, is a 98-bed hospital which opened in October of ing to the merger application 2007. KishHealth System operates facilities in DeKalb, Sandwich, Syc- submitted to the nine-member amore, Plano, Genoa, Hampshire, Waterman, and Rochelle. Illinois Health Facilities and
Services Review Board, KishHealth is valued at as much as $362 million, but the acquisition price will be zero. One provision of the agreement, according to the application, calls for KishHealth to use any uncommitted cash reserves when the deal closes to “support ... and benefit the health care needs” of the area it serves. The merger was announced last month. A spokeswoman for the IHFSRB, which still has to approve the deal, said hearing from the public is not required. “Public hearings are only
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held upon request from the general public or other entities,” said Courtney Avery, administrator for the IHFSRB. Thursday is the deadline for anyone from the public to ask for a public hearing, she said. The merger is scheduled to begin Dec. 31, according to the merger application. KishHealth Systems runs two hospitals – 98-bed Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb and 25-bed Valley West Hospital in Sandwich – and more than a dozen other area clinics and health facilities.
The agreement extends the reach of Northwestern Memorial and provides KishHealth with the resources of the much larger Chicago-based academic health system. Northwestern Memorial stands to gain market share and a new pipeline for patient referrals to its specialists. KishHealth could get an injection of capital in addition to better access to advanced specialists, experts have said. Northwestern Memorial HealthCare took over Cadence
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