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County passes resolution opposing tax hike effective Jan. 1, 2015. Many Democratic lawmakers and leaders repeatedly stressed at the time of the vote that the tax increase would be a temporary measure. The resolution drafted last week first cleared the board’s Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee on a 5-1 vote prior to the full board meeting. While committee member Nick Chirikos, D-Algonquin, voted yes on the board floor, he voted no in committee out of con-
cern of the impact on state services that would result if the tax increase is allowed to expire. He conceded that state Democratic leaders were “absolutely short-sighted” in their handling of the temporary tax. “I’m very concerned about the effect the loss of revenue is going to have at the state level. It’s a huge hit to the budget,” Chirikos said. But committee Chairman John
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Board members want Legislature to allow increase to expire as scheduled By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – The McHenry County Board added its voice Tuesday night to the chorus asking Illinois lawmakers to keep their word
and allow the temporary 67 percent income tax hike to expire as scheduled. County Board members voted Tuesday evening, 23-0, to pass a resolution imploring the General Assembly not to renege on its promise
On the Web You can read the McHenry County Board’s resolution asking state lawmakers to let the 2011 tax increase expire as scheduled at shawurl.com/16ge.
and make the tax permanent. The increase, passed in 2011 by state lawmakers, contained a provision that significantly sunsets the increases
Treatments for fertility issues more common
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Madison Anderson (left), 7, lies still while her twin brother, Adam, outlines her body in chalk Monday while playing after school at their Lake in the Hills home.
After the first round it was heartbreaking. After going through all of that procedure, and nothing came about, we were devastated because we had all these quality eggs that were available. [The doctor] put two in, and ... nothing stuck. We just put all this money in and we're not going to have kids." Wendy Anderson Wendy Anderson (center) serves dinner to her 7-year-old twins, Adam and Madison, on Monday at their Lake in the Hills home. Anderson and her husband, Jim, went through in vitro fertilization twice before getting pregnant.
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on the first attempt by her and her husband, Jim Anderson, to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization
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SPRINGFIELD – Some Illinois Democratic lawmakers reluctant to vote to make tax increases permanent are splitting with party leaders and calling for alternative approaches such as gradually reducing income tax rates or finding spending cuts to help balance the budget. But Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and House Speaker Michael Madigan are unwilling so far to look at those options, despite being what Madigan described as “significantly” short of the number of votes needed for approval of the tax increases in the House. The intraparty disagreement is playing out with less than two weeks to go in the spring legislative session, and with lawmakers still needing to approve a budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. That is frustrating several lawmakers – including some who are fighting to hold on to their seats in November – who expressed their concerns during an at-times contentious meeting with Quinn Monday, and again on Tuesday. “We all asked the governor yesterday ‘Do you have a Plan B? Because this isn’t working,’” Rep. Deb Conroy, a Villa Park Democrat, said Tuesday. “And so far he says no. So that’s kind of where we’re at.” Conroy describes herself as a solid “no” to keeping current income tax increases in place, but said she’s “waiting to see what they’re going to come up with.”
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Two years after Jim and Wendy Anderson got married in 2002, they started going to fertility treatments because Wendy has polycystic ovaries and the Lake in the Hills couple couldn’t conceive naturally. After going through different medications and procedures, the couple decided to go through the in vitro fertilization route. It was a process that took two attempts, a physical toll on Wendy and an emotional toll on the couple. It cost $18,000 out of pocket. During that second attempt, the then-34-year-old Wendy became pregnant with twins, and the couple had the family it wanted. Over the past two decades there has been an increase in the rate of multiple births by 76 percent. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3.3 percent of births in 2012 resulted in twins, and a recent New England Journal of Medicine article estimated that 36 percent of twin births and 77 percent of triplet births came after conception assisted by fertility treatments. When the Andersons first tried in vitro, they had two embryos implanted into Wendy. She also had to have regular shots done at the same time every day to help encourage her body to take the pregnancy. “It’s time consuming,” Wendy Anderson said. But the first time wasn’t successful. “After the first round it was heartbreaking,” Wendy Anderson said. “After going through all of that procedure, and nothing came about, we were devastated because we had