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Store manager Pragash Shah helps a customer Thursday inside the Grove Mart in Lake in the Hills. Lake in the Hills and Marengo officials are working to come up with a plan on how to handle video gaming inside gas stations. A review of Illinois Gaming Board data reveals many gas stations across the state have been awarded video gaming licenses under the truck stop criteria. By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com LAKE IN THE HILLS – An Illinois Gaming Board decision that granted a Lake in the Hills gas station permission to use video gaming machines and allow customers to play the electronic slots surprised village officials. Officials were startled to learn that the Gaming Board, in its license approval, considered the gas station – located miles away from the nearest interstate – a truck stop. Marengo officials are also grappling with a proposal from a Shell station that wants to allow customers to consume alcohol on-site. The move would make the gas station eligible for the same video gaming license the state’s gaming authority has awarded to numerous bars and restaurants. “When you think of a truck stop,
ing floral shops, laundromats and liquor stores. In the county, officials in Lake in the Hills and Marengo are trying to process how gas stations could legally have video gaming machines. Unlike the Marengo proposal, the Grove Mart station in Lake in the Hills doesn’t need a license to pour alcohol to have the machines, since the Gaming Board determined it was a truck stop, Sagona said. Typically located near interstates and busy state highways, truck stops often rest on multiple acres and contain numerous amenities to help road-weary commercial A video gaming machine is seen Thursday inside the Grove Mart in Lake in the drivers recharge and refuel their big rigs. Hills. Under the video gaming law, you think of something next to the diesel fuel.” the state defines a truck stop as a In the two years since video gam- business that owns or leases at least interstate,” said Lake in the Hills Village Administrator Gerald Sag- ing began in Illinois, the gambling three acres and sells at least 10,000 ona. “There’s much more to it than devices have cropped up in places just three acres and 10,000 gallons of lawmakers never intended, includSee GAMBLING, page A8
McHENRY – Entering the dining room of the McHenry VFW to applause Saturday, McHenry County sheriff’s deputy Dwight Maness moved from a gurney to a wheelchair and quickly joined fellow deputy Khalia Satkiewicz at a table in the back corner. From there, the two deputies, who were shot and wounded while on duty responding to a Holiday Hills home in October, s e e m i n g l y Khalia n e v e r h a d Satkiewicz a moment alone. C o l l e a g u e s , friends and area police endlessly approached the deputies to s h a k e t h e i r Dwight h a n d s a n d Maness strike up conversations, as others worked the room, collecting donations and handing out raffle tickets. The Iron Justice Motorcycle Club and McHenry County Police Charities have hosted benefits before for area officers wounded on the job. But the one inside the McHenry VFW Post 4600 for Maness and Satkiewicz carried extra significance, said Dan Patenaude, president of the motorcycle club’s McHenry County chapter that includes many sheriff employees. “It hits home when it’s one of your own brothers,” said Patenaude, who is a sheriff’s sergeant.
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Crystal Lake family among advocates touting success of safe haven law CHICAGO – More than 100 newborn babies have been safely handed over at fire houses and police stations in
Illinois in the 13 years since the state passed its safe haven law, advocates said Saturday, celebrating the milestone as a victory while calling for more awareness. Several of those children
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and their adoptive parents shared their stories with reporters at an event in Chicago to draw attention to the law and demonstrate that it’s working. “When I was born, my birth
mother wasn’t ready to be a mom, but she loved me and she knew about safe haven,” said a soft-spoken 9-year-old named Zoe, standing on a step-stool to reach the microphones at a podium.
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“So she took me to the hospital so I could be adopted. Now I have six brothers, two sisters, three dogs and one cat. And they love me.” Illinois was among the first states to adopt a safe haven
law, in 2001. It offers a parent a safe and legal alternative to abandoning a newborn in dangerous circumstances. Children up to 30 days old can be
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