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Crowded race to replace Tryon? GOP primary for 66th House District shaping up to be 4-way race By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com The primary contest to replace retiring Republican state Rep. Mike Tryon is shaping up to be a four-way race. McHenry County Board member Carolyn Schofield, R-Crystal Lake, announced her candidacy for the 66th House District before the Independence Day weekend. She was joined this week by Dan Wilbrandt, a McHenry
County assistant state’s attorney and West Dundee village trustee. Newly elected Lakewood Village Trustee Paul Serwatka is seriously mulling a run, as is East Dundee village Trustee Allen Skillicorn, who also serves as vice chairman of the Kane County Republican Party. Tryon, R-Crystal Lake, announced last month that he would not seek a seventh term and will retire after the 2016
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election. Schofield, a married mother of three, said the timing is right with Tryon’s retirement to take the next step in her public service c a r e e r . S h e Mike Tryon served for 10 years on the Crystal Lake Planning and Zoning Committee, and then
served a term on the Crystal Lake City Council before her 2012 election to the County Board. “These are critical days for the state of Illinois, and we need lawmakers in Springfield who are willing to work with Gov. [Bruce] Rauner and majority party Democrats to find consensus on issues that will address the state’s financial crisis, protect suburban taxpayers, improve the jobs climate, and root out the
waste, fraud and abuse that has crippled Illinois,” Schofield said. Serwatka made headlines in the April election with his decisive upset victory to win a seat on the Lakewood Village Board as a write-in candidate, riding dissatisfaction with a proposal for a tax increment financing district anchored by a nonprofit sportsplex on the village’s outskirts. The married father of four young children called Tryon’s
retirement an “incredible opportunity” he does not want to pass up, and he said a number of people encouraged him to take it. However, he said he wants to gauge the support of his constituents before he makes it official, and he asked them to contact him and weigh in. “I have discussed this with my family at length, I have prayed incessantly, and I am
See PRIMARY, page A6
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Judge: Workers must be paid in full By JOHN O’CONNOR and SOPHIA TAREEN The Associated Press SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois House adopted a stopgap spending plan Thursday that would guarantee state employee paychecks for July, but Gov. Bruce Rauner quickly criticized it, as Illinois’ budget muddle got even messier when a judge’s ruling on worker pay contradicted an earlier decision by a different court. As the DemocratBruce Rauner ic-controlled House OK’d a one-month budget after a two-hour debate peppered with name-calling and recrim Leslie Munger i n a t i o n , a southwestern Illinois judge decreed that state workers should get their full paychecks even without a formal budget. That contradicted a Cook County court ruling earlier in the week that no budget means no pay. The state is 10 days into a new fiscal year without authority to pay bills. Republican Rauner insists on pro-business reforms to spur economic investment before dealing with Democrats on a budget that has a deficit of up to $4 billion.
See PAY, page A6
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Mother Superior Mary Martha (left) talks with Fraternite of Notre Dame nuns during a break of the McHenry County Zoning Board of Appeals hearing Thursday in Woodstock. Supporters and opponents of the religious order’s request to build a school, nursing home, brewery and other amenities at its Coral Township complex will have to wait a few more weeks to see whether the zoning board will vote to recommend approval.
Zoning Board delays vote on religious order’s site expansion By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Supporters and opponents of the Fraternite of Notre Dame’s request to expand its operations in rural Coral Township will have to wait a few more weeks to see whether the McHenry Coun-
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ty Zoning Board of Appeals will vote to recommend approval. The emergency absence of John Rosene, one of seven zoning board members involved in deliberations, prompted Fraternite attorney Tom Zanck to ask for the delay. Because it takes five “yes” votes for the zoning board to recommend approval
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to the County Board, a petitioner has the right to ask for the vote to be postponed in the event of an absence. The zoning board has conducted hearings since April regarding the Fraternite’s request for a conditional use permit to add a school with a dormitory, a nursing home
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and hospice, another commercial kitchen and a place to brew beer, make wine and hold tastings, plus a gift shop, on its 95 acres at 10003 Harmony Hill Road. The County Board granted the obscure Christian order a conditional use permit
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