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Development rules headed to full board
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Vote could come in August By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com
Photos by Iam Maul for Shaw Media
Mike Czerchlanski (left) of Wonder Lake sits at home with his sister, Bozena, after breakfast recently. Bozena has looked after Mike Czerchlanski, who has memory loss and blindness in one eye as a result of an attack in May 2009. She has been attempting to get her brother’s attackers behind bars for the past five years. “You just don’t give up on family. He is my brother and they took away his life. I have to fight for him,” said Bozena about her battles with the court. TOP: Mike was beaten in the head with an iron 17 to 19 times after he was confronted by three men waiting in his kitchen upon arriving home from work.
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Czerchlanski screamed. She cried. She pleaded. She raced to the hospital. Mike Czerchlanski survived by a Bozena Czerchlanski’s voice shakes thread. He languished in a coma for five when she tells the story of the day her months. His attacker, a friend and roombrother was attacked and beaten half to mate, 49-year-old Bernard Nicholl, was death in his Wonder Lake home. charged with attempted murder. A neighbor had called and told her he was dead. See CRIME, page A10
By CHELSEA McDOUGALL
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WOODSTOCK – The Unified Development Ordinance is expected to go to the McHenry County Board for review next month for an August vote. After more than three years of work on the ordinance, the board’s Planning and Development Committee anticipates finishing its review of the final draft and moving it forward to the full board before month’s end. The County Board under its rules would put it on 30-day review at its July 1 meeting, setting up a vote at its next morning meeting Aug. 5. Coming in at 300 pages and 20 chapters, the ordinance updates the county’s development-related ordinances, such as those governing zoning, signs and subdivisions, and combines them into one to make the rules easier to read and follow. It only applies to unincorporated areas, and does not supersede municipalities with their own development and land use ordinances. The planning committee was set to move the ordinance forward last week, but was presented just before its meeting with a letter from the State’s Attorney’s Office reviewing portions of it, committee Chairman Joe Gottemoller, R-Crystal Lake, said. The committee will meet an hour before next Tuesday’s evening County Board meeting to go through the letter. Gottemoller anticipates that the County Board will hold at least two Committee of the Whole meetings to review the ordinance’s provisions. He said a July 1 start date to the 30-day review provides
Joe Gottemoller
What’s next The County Board under its rules would put the Unified Development Ordinance on 30-day review at its July 1 meeting, giving the public another chance to comment on it at the County Board’s meeting July 15, and setting up a vote at its next morning meeting Aug. 5.
On the Net You can read the proposed Unified Development Ordinance at http://shawurl. com/10wo.
See DEVELOPMENT, page A10
For Obama, fresh questions about how wars end By JULIE PACE The Associated Press WASHINGTON – From the Rose Garden, President Barack Obama outlined a timetable for the gradual withdrawal of the last U.S. troops in Afghanistan and said confidently, “This is how wars end in the 21st century.” But less than three weeks after his May 27 announcement, there is a sudden burst of uncertainty surrounding the way Obama has moved to bring the two conflicts he inherited to a close.
More inside Read the latest news out of Iraq, including how the rise of Shiite militias pose a threat to Iraq. PAGE A10
In Iraq, a fast-moving Islamic insurgency is pressing toward Baghdad, raising the possibility of fresh American military action more than two years after the last U.S. troops withdrew. The chaos in Iraq also raises questions about whether Obama’s plans to keep a small military presence
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in Afghanistan until the end of 2016 can prevent a similar backslide there or whether extremists are simply lying in wait until the U.S. withdrawal deadline passes. “Could all of this have been avoided? The answer is absolutely yes,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said of the deteriorating situation in Iraq. McCain, one of the White House’s chief foreign policy critics and Obama’s 2008 presidential rival, added that Obama is “about to make the same mistake in Afghanistan he made in Iraq.” That criticism strikes at the
heart of Obama’s clearest foreign policy pledge: a commitment to ending the conflicts started by his predecessor, George W. Bush, and keeping the U.S. out of further military entanglements. The turmoil in Iraq presents a particularly troubling dilemma for the White House. Obama’s early opposition to the Iraq war was a defining factor in his 2008 presidential campaign and he cast the withdrawal of all American troops in late 2011 as a promise fulfilled. The president and
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President Barack Obama speaks about the future of U.S. troops in Afghanistan on May 27 at the White House in Washington. In Iraq, an Islamic insurgency is pressing toward Baghdad, raising the possibility of military action more than two years after the last U.S. troops withdrew.
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