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Businesses voice some concerns over square
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Owners: Woodstock area has grown rowdy By SHAWN SHINNEMAN sshinneman@shawmedia.com
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Dan Dziewior of Crystal Lake looks at rows of handguns while shopping Friday at Marengo Guns. Compact pistols have been selling quicker at local guns stores because of the new concealed-carry law in Illinois.
Concealed-carry law driving purchases both locally, nationally pening locally follows a national trend that has gun retailers selling more concealable, comDespite the traditional pact pistols to buyers interestsummer slowdown, area gun ed in self-defense. CRT Capital, retailers are seeing elevated a national financial services handgun sales primarily from firm, recently found that comcustomers wanting to put new pact pistol sales are doubling concealed-carry permits to use. The heightened sales hapSee GUN SALES, page A9
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WOODSTOCK – Owners of a business on the Woodstock Square raised concerns that the area has grown rowdy in recent months – particularly in the area of a faith-based youth center. Don Frick and Lisa Hansen – who each have a hand in the family run square business The Backdrop – brought the issues to the City Council earlier this month. They said Revolution Youth Center, which moved into the square last June, brought with it sometimes foul-mouthed and disrespectful kids, discouraging customers from their business. They also took issue with other “characters” on the square and, as much as anything, said their concerns had fallen on deaf ears for too long, according to the minutes from the June 3 City Council meeting. “We just had some concerns about activities on the square and we wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of them,” Frick said last week. City officials have since spoken with Revolution management and several other business owners. They’re working on setting a public meeting about the issues, which could come together in
“The Revolution Youth Center brings a new dynamic to the Square as a gathering place for youth. I think that’s what has the attention of some of the business owners.” Robert Lowen Woodstock police chief
com. See SQUARE, page A9
Al-Qaida splinter group, ISIL, declares new Islamic caliphate By RYAN LUCAS The Associated Press BAGHDAD – The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northeastern Syria and huge tracts of neighboring Iraq formally declared the establishment of a new Islamic state on Sunday and demanded allegiance from Muslims worldwide. The spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, made the announcement in an audio statement posted
online on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Muslim extremists have long dreamed of recreating the Islamic state, or caliphate, that ruled over the Middle East, much of North Africa and beyond in various forms over the course of Islam’s 1,400-year history. Al-Adnani declared the group’s chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the new leader, or caliph, and called on jihadi groups everywhere, not just those in areas under the organization’s control, to
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swear loyalty to al-Baghdadi and support him. “The legality of all emirates, groups, states and organizations becomes null by the expansion of the caliph’s authority and the arrival of its troops to their areas,” al-Adnani said. “Listen to your caliph and obey him. Support your state, which grows every day.” Al-Adnani loosely defined the Islamic state’s territory as running from northern Syria to the Iraqi province of Diyala – a vast stretch of
land straddling the border that is already largely under the Islamic State’s control. He also said that with the establishment of the caliphate, the group was changing its name to just the Islamic State, dropping the mention of Iraq and the Levant. It was unclear what immediate impact the declaration would have on the ground in Syria and Iraq, though experts predicted it could herald infighting among the Sunni militants who have formed an alliance with the Islamic State
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in its blitz across northern and western Iraq. “Now the insurgents in Iraq have no excuse for working with ISIS if they were hoping to share power with ISIS,” said Aymenn al-Tamimi, an analyst who specializes in Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, using one of several acronyms for the Islamic State. “The prospect of infighting in Iraq is increased for sure.” The greatest impact, however, could be on the broader international jihadist movement, in particular on the fu-
ture of al-Qaida. Founded by Osama bin Laden, the group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. has long carried the mantle of the international jihadi cause. But the Islamic State has managed to do in Syria and Iraq what al-Qaida never has – carve out a large swath of territory in the heart of the Arab world and control it. “This announcement poses a huge threat to al-Qaida and its long-time position of
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