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CLASS 7A SEMIFINAL: CARY-GROVE 41, LIBERTYVILLE 7
Another shot for C-G
Cities work together to pursue enterprise zone By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com
Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com
Cary-Grove’s Michael Gomez greets fans after winning Saturday’s Class 7A semifinal game against Libertyville. Cary-Grove won, 41-7.
Trojans relish semifinal win, but are far from finished LIBERTYVILLE – The celebration started with three minutes left on the clock. Hugs and congratulations on the Cary-Grove sideline spilled onto the field. They extended to the track around the field, where the players high-fived each of the fans on the other side of the fence – from the students who stretched across the length of the endzone chanting “State! State! State!” past the cheerleaders at the 25-yard line and to the parents all the way down the line to the opposite endzone. Cary-Grove’s 41-7 Class 7A semifinal victory at Libertyville sent the Trojans to the state championship. It turned parents into amateur paparazzi. It brought smiles, laughter, exuberance. “Pure happiness,” senior quar-
VIEWS Mike DeFabo terback Jason Gregoire termed it. It even brought tears streaming down the face of one of the toughest players on the team, 6-foot-1, 270-pound lineman Michael Gomez. But then, standing in front of his teammates on the field, it was what Gomez did that caused the celebration to come screeching to a halt. “I’m telling you right now, sophomore year we were this excited too and look what happened,” he said in reference to the Trojans’ 33-26 loss to Crete-Monee in the Class 6A championship
game. “We’ve got to go hard during practice and we’ve got to bring it to Providence.” Senior lineman Trevor Ruhland jumped up, interjecting “We ain’t done yet. One more for everything.” “This was not our goal,” Gomez continued. “Our goal is to freaking win it. Take it all.” The impromptu postgame speech was met with a rousing applause. And for good reason. It was spot on. No. 1 Cary-Grove (13-0) has stormed through this season one running clock at a time. The Trojans have outscored opponents by an average of 32 points per game to earn their fourth trip to the state championship in 11 seasons.
More in Sports n C-G makes it look easy in second half against Libertyville. PAGE C2 n Trojans’ reserves seeing plenty of playing time in blowout wins. PAGE C2
Up next Cary-Grove will play Providence at 4 p.m. Saturday in Champaign in the Class 7A championship game.
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After an initial miscommunication, Woodstock and Harvard officials will now work together to secure various economic incentives available from the state that could ultimately help draw new businesses to both communities. Last month, the neighboring cities separately began exploring applications for an enterprise zone, a special designation with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity that would entitle the cities to state and local incentives. Woodstock officials later approached Harvard about working together on a joint application after Woodstock staff initially were told Harvard wasn’t interested. The news came from someone not directly affiliated with Harvard, said Woodstock City Manager Roscoe Stelford. The two groups worked through the mishap and now will apply for an enterprise zone spanning nearly 7.7 square miles of the cities’ industrial areas. The move increases the cities’ chances of securing a zone since the state rewards intergovernmental cooperation, officials from both cities said. “By combining our efforts, it strengthens our application and meets the requirements necessary for a zone under the law,” said Harvard City Administrator David Nelson. “It strengthens our chances. It’s a win-win.” The state currently designates 97 areas as enterprise zones, including Elgin, Boone and DeKalb counties. But 49 zones are set to expire at the
“I kind of hate if a community like Woodstock and Harvard are pitted against each other. I believe both are well deserving, so why not try to work together to bring in all of us versus ... dividing it by separate applications. It just didn’t make sense.” Brian Sager Woodstock mayor
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Immigrants urged to take advantage of Obama executive order Analyses suggest action will benefit economy – but not as much as broader reform deal with Congress might The ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin D-Illinois
CHICAGO – Democratic politicians gathered at a Chicago high school Saturday to encourage Illinois’ immigrant population to register with the federal government under President Barack Obama’s new executive action on immigration. The executive order signed
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Friday would prevent the deportation of about 4 million parents and guardians who lack the same legal status as their children. Rep. Luis Gutierrez challenged Chicago’s immigrant community to “set the standard” for registration under the act. “This isn’t complicated,” Gutierrez told several hundred people at Benito Juarez High School.
“Every church will be a designated site. Every community college will be a designated site. Every school will be a designated site. Every health care center will be a designated site.” Gutierrez, a longtime activist for immigration reform, said his goal was to provide training for thousands of people to register millions of immigrants with the
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