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Genoa-Kings......... 15 Richmond-B..........35
Marengo ................28 North Boone .........29
Grayslake N.......... 49 Woodstock N........29
Harvard .................. 14 Johnsburg..............62
Woodstock............ 12 Hampshire............. 15
Grayslake C.............7 CL Central..............56
St. Patrick.............. 19 Marian Central.....52
Prairie Ridge.........28 Crete-Monee ........42
Cary-Grove............47 CL South ..................7
A-Hebron ...............22 Marquette.............35
Jacobs ................... 50 McHenry................25
Dundee-C............... 14 Huntley ..................59
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County revote on grant possible Decision defunded insurance counselors By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com
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Lou and Jeanne Bambini of Lake in the Hills sit down for a drink with Mark Pietrucha of Cary at The Cottage on Thursday in Crystal Lake, where video gambling is not available. According to state statistics, establishments, such as Moretti’s, in Lake in the Hills have made nearly $250,000 since video gambling first became legal in 2012.
Business owners frustrated as city yet to hold hearing on gaming By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Jeff Thorsen wouldn’t bet on changing his mind when it comes to video gambling, but he’d to love hear people try. After a group of Crystal Lake bar and restaurant owners requested an October hearing on the issue in August, the scheduled City Council meetings for October have come and gone
with no discussion on the topic. It was a disappointment to Thorsen, a City Council member who said the council has a responsibility to listen to the request. “I was kind of surprised when it didn’t happen,” Thorsen said of the October request. “We’re here to hear. I haven’t heard anything that sways me at this point, but I certainly don’t want
See GAMBLING, page A4
By the numbers Profits for local government and businesses off video gaming from Sept. 2012 to Sept. 2014 Unincorporated McHenry County n Government: $97,000 n Businesses: $684,564 Algonquin n Government: $49,477 n Businesses: $346,336 Lake in the Hills n Government: $35,600 n Businesses: $249,208
Cary n Government: $13,978 n Businesses: $97,845 Woodstock n Government: $124,805 n Businesses: $873,630 McHenry n Government: $218,330 n Businesses: $1.5 million
WOODSTOCK – McHenry County Board members are rethinking a controversial vote that stripped grant funding that covered Affordable Care Act counselors, as local health service agencies thrashed the original decision Friday. Acting board Chairman James Heisler, R-Crystal Lake, said he and several others will meet at noon Monday to discuss how to revisit the grant, and whether it can wait until Nov. 6 or whether a special meeting is needed. Member Donna Kurtz, R-Crystal Lake, also said a revote likely will happen after talking to other board members. She said an Illinois Department of Public Health grant coordinator agreed to temporarily hold off on distributing a $584,791 state grant elsewhere to allow for a revote. “A lot of County Board members are now recognizing that we need to reassess this whole situation,” Kurtz said. On Tuesday, the County Board voted 10-10 to turn down the $584,791 grant from
Donna Kurtz R-Crystal Lake
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See REVOTE, page A8
By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com HOLIDAY HILLS – The house at 1313 W. Northeast Shore Drive – where two McHenry County sheriff’s deputies were shot last week – is separated from its next-door neighbor by a long black fence. The fence, which police said interfered with their rescue of the officers and search opera-
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The fence has been brought up for debate in Holiday Hills a few times over the years, and at the Holiday Hills Village Board meeting Monday evening, the fence again was in the spotlight. “The two deputies that were downed in the front yard had to be dragged more than 150 yards because they couldn’t be dragged around the corner through the fence and gotten emergency care,” Village President Dan Drury said. “We had two officers from Island Lake that had to physically drag these guys a great distance. ... We need to address that fence.”
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Maplewood’s future at issue
Advice ................................C10 Business ..............................A8 Buzz.....................................C12 Classified........................ D1-8 Comics ................................C11 Neighbors.........................B1-6 Local News......................A2-4 Lottery..................................A2 Movies................................. C9 Nation&World.................... A7 Obituaries ...........................A8 Opinions ............................. A9 Puzzles .................................D8 Sports............................... C1-8 State .................................... A7 Weather .............................A10
D-26 may hear developer’s plan for high-density project at vacant school property / A3 SPORTS
Job seekers sell skills Nearly 75 companies and firms take applications from potential employees during McHenry County College’s Job Fair / A3
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Fence separating Hyde Park Ave. LeVilla Vaupell neighborhood
S. Vaupell Drive
Sources say alleged shooter in Holiday Hills built barrier
tions, runs the length of Holiday Hills’ Hyde Park Avenue, separating it from a parallel Hyde Park Avenue in LeVilla Vaupell Country Club. In a bizarre coincidence, multiple sources said the most recent version of it was put in by Scott B. Peters, a private contractor, who is charged with shooting the deputies Oct. 16. The 79-home community is not a part of Holiday Hills even though the first stretch of Vaupell Drive leading to the subdivision is in the neighboring village. That entrance is the only way into LeVilla Vaupell. A gate marked for “Fire Trucks Only” lies about halfway down Holiday Hills’ version of Hyde Park Avenue.
HOLIDAY HILLS Hyde Park Ave.
Police: Fence interfered with search, rescue
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Police say a fence that runs the length of Holiday Hills’ Hyde Park Avenue interfered with their rescue of the officers and search operations recently.
On Campus Johnsburg High School grad Kelsey Nobilio sets digs record at UW-Whitewater / C1
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